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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is the rest of you, not OP who have issues.  I am the PP who mentioned that I had it my first year of college.

Even though I was 18 the first time I did my own laundry I grew up to be a fully functioning adult.  And as I mentioned to this day I really like doing laundry.

OP asked an innocent question.

[b]Also many of us here on DCUM outsource our cleaning so I don't see what the big deal is[/b].  I was personally against it b/c in my experience the services do a crappy job.

OP's son will not be a damaged adult if he doesn't do his own laundry in college.  Geez people.  [/quote]

I think people react more harshly to things like this because people feel like as an adult who works and makes a certain income, there is an element of an earned "right" to outsource. Sort of like, been there, done that, feel fortunate to not HAVE to[b]. When you see teenagers and kids outsourcing stuff, well they don't really know any better. They can easily feel entitled, even nice kids.[/b]

its kind of like why people have a hard time with parents buying high school and college aged kids designer bags and expensive cars. That kid can't afford that on their own at 22, but they might expect it.

I think some people react negatively to the coddling/ you deserve to not have to do this sort of message it might send. [/quote]

:roll: Except entitled kids do not get full academic scholarships by being entitled. Anyone who has got merit scholarship, they have worked hard at school.  If this kid was coddled, he would not be an academic powerhouse.

I find it funny that this has elicited such negative posts on this forum. The work required to run a home - laundry, cooking, grocery shopping, raising kids etc. is usually so derided when it is applied to a SAHM.  Most WOHMs cannot do without outsourcing some aspect of their domestic life, yet, a student who has gone to college to study (and has the cash to outsource) should not outsource this chore?

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