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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends. I will sometimes make the kids breakfast even though, at 12, 15 and 16, they are more than capable of doing it themselves. I generally do their laundry. I make the 16 year olds lunch every school day... I'm up anyway and she's rushing around to get ready. She knows how to do it, obviously. The other two are homeschooled so no lunches to pack. But sometimes they clean bathrooms, throw in a load of towels, wash dishes, make lunch for everyone, etc. I will also ask them to make me a cup of tea, go grab me something out of another room, and so on. As long as they know how to do things, I not opposed to doing things for them. It's just part of being a family, imo.
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So in addition to knowing how to make breakfast, would it be beneficial for her to also learn how to manage her time so she can get everything done? Not a criticism, just a thought.

What is the benefit to the family of doing laundry for them?

Again just curious how other folks do things. I do a lot of the family laundry. For no good and defensible reason at all. I simply have not helped them adopt habits to do that. As another poster pointed out, if they do only their own laundry, then the loads are small and inefficient. But sometimes I will ask either of them to throw an entire load of combined laundry in, and they cheerfully do. (I am not particular about laundry!)
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Throwing the laundry in is the easy part.  I tend to do that myself.

But we've taught our kids to do the rest:

- empty their hampers into the two bins in the laundry room (one for lights and one for darks) so everything is sorted and ready to dump into the washer once we have enough for a full load;

- check the dryer for clean laundry, pull it out and then sort it into four different baskets -- one basket for each of us in the house;

- take their basket of clean clothes to their room and put their own clothes away.

This helps so much in our house.  No more asking/bugging me or DH about where their X pants are or whether Y shirt is clean.  If they want to know, they can look in their hamper, the bins in the laundry room or the dryer.  [/quote]

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