[blparent] teen laundry

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Good point.  I was doing my own laundry during my teenage years as well. 
Although if her son really doesn't care and will walk around in dirty 
clothes, Jennifer will have to deal with the false judgments that she isn't 
doing what she should, either because she can't or won't.  It sounds like 
the two grandmothers will buy her son new clothes when he wants them.  If 
that part can't be stopped, then the kid won't learn anything by having to 
do his own washing.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tracey Turri
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:35 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] teen laundry

You could tell him that since he wants to do the laundrey on his time
table, he can do the whole thing, start to finish.  At 13 he is old
and strong enough to do the washing by him self, you shouldn't still
have to do it for him.  If it doesn't get done, well, the girls wont
be interested in some smelly kid now will they?
My brother and I were doing our clothes washing by the time we were
both 10 years old, that doesn't meen mom wouldn't give us a reminder
if we forgot or something, but she new we were both capable and it
kept us from fighting about it.
Good luck, and keep us posted.
Tracey

On 11/5/12, Veronica Smith <madison_tewe at spinn.net> wrote:
> You are more patient than me, I have been known to put clothes in a trash
> bag and put them outdoors.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer
> Jackson
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:29 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: [blparent] teen laundry
>
> I think someone may need to talk me down. :-) Yesterday in the early
> evening
> I asked my 13 year old for his laundry. This morning I had to get really
> insistent and ask two more times. Almost 3 thymes as when he finally
> brought
> it down he just left it at the bottom of the stairs without even letting 
> me
> know. I washed his jeans with some of his brothers and finished the load
> up.
> Now a second load is in the dryer and he is refusing to fold and hang 
> them.
> He even lied and told me they were still wet when I sent him out to handle
> it. I am tempted to put them in a trash bag on the basis that they are
> obviously not important to him. It has been over an hour since he lied
> about
> them being finished, so it is not as if I am not giving him time to 
> respond
> appropriately.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions for other responses?
>
>
>
>
>
> Jennifer
>
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