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Anonymous
| With a baby and toddler, I either doing laundry or putting away laundry every single day. Any tips. |
Anonymous
| 3 kids under 9 here: Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. |
Anonymous
| I prefer to keep the loads moving through every day than to let it all pile up for the weekend anyway. Like so much housework and parenting drudgery, you just do it. |
Anonymous
We taught DD how to do her own laundry at 7 - seriously. At first it is significantly more work than just doing it yourself, but if you can stick through the investment - it is WONDERFUL. Teaches them responsibility and minimizes family laundry load for mom / dad. At 13, she handles all her own laundry completely - washing, putting away, etc. |
Anonymous
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Bravo 23:30. My twins are 7 and I'm totally going to start working on this. They currently sort and put away, with the occasional moving of laundry from washer to dryer or dryer to basket, but your tip is brilliant.
I didn't ever have to do my own laundry or put it away, or make my bed for that matter because I grew up with a housekeeper who did it all for me. Now I'm my own housekeeper (which sucks) and let's just say it's not going so well. I have vowed to teach my kids and not make the mistake my parent's made. They were great, but they did not help me in the housekeeping department! Wish I had tips OP, but I'm the wait until 20 loads pile up and then power through it kinda gal, and it sucks! |
Anonymous
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OP, in the winter, we rewear a lot of clothes.
In the summer, I make my son wear shorts up to 3 times before washing. Buy dark colors. |
Anonymous
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23:30 here- another secret tip that we figured out way too late- have them clean one bathroom item every Sat am - every three weeks the whole thing is cleaned at least once...
One week its toilet, the next sink and then next tub.... No matter what trash is emptied each week. We do this in exchange for having text turned on the phone... It could probably stand to get cleaned more often, but I figure a kid-cleaned bathroom in a 3 week cycle is a decent accomplishment. You wouldn't know it from DD's room, but I do think she is picking up some housecleaning skills... |
Anonymous
I'd really worry about kids (9or 10) cleaning toilets --even with gloves on, the potential for transmission of really nasty fecal bacteria is very high. |
Anonymous
| We just let it pile up and do it on the weekend. Dh washes and I fold and put away. Works for us. |
Anonymous
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I was cleaning the entire house by age 8. And my mom was a tyrant with her expectations for bathrooms. Did all the family laundry as well. Latchkey kid with a single mom.
By the time I got to college I was thrilled that I only had to take care of myself. Of course, the number of classmates who were completely befuddled by washing machines was striking. |
Anonymous
so it's better for mom or the maid to do it? A kid can wash his or her hands just as easily as an adult can. Also, I use a brush, not sure what you are doing, PP. Start them young, people. By the age of 12, a child should be handling a large percentage of a household's chores. |
Anonymous
Te he! But seriously, I have only have 2 kids and both are young teens. DS must change clothes everyday or else they stink. DD tries to sneak her clothes back into the hamper so she doesn't have to put them away.....even after she's spent an evening folding them. And what is up with the socks? My socks and DD socks are easily identifiable. DH and DC have socks that look similar. A couple of years ago I stopped trying to sort and match them. Now I throw them in a bin and let them sort through it. The both forget which socks they like or don't like. I've washed my hands of it though. If they want to make it easier on themselves they can write their initials on them. 8) |
Anonymous
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I have 2 toddlers and I seem to end up with 1.5 loads a week. Is it possible that you do extra loads because you are short on certain clothing items?
My boys wear one set of clothes a day with an occasional change if we are going out or if they get really messy. When they were babies, it was more but the onesies are tiny by volume so if you have enough to last a week they should make it. How many pairs of clothes per day do they go through? |
Anonymous
Yes, and as soon as your kids are older, you enlist their help. My 12 year old does the color loads, and my 7 year old puts away all of his clothes in his drawers. My DH is helpless ' 
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Anonymous
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Buy more clothes.
I do 2-3 loads every weekend, and that gets us through the week. |