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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids do a lot of things but laundry isn't one of them.  We have too many people living in our house for one person to be hogging one of the washing machines or dryers.

Usually by late elementary school they can and will do a load if they need something that they discovered wasn't in the laundry basket.  Other than that they don't start doing laundry for real until the summer before they leave for college.  That's the system I've set up and I'm sticking with it.  They are doing so many other things outstandingly well that I am not worrying about laundry.

If doing laundry is your line in the sand for whether a kid is a lay-about or productive then I think it is a dumb metric. [/quote]

I think you miss the point.  You shouldn't do things for your kids that they can do for themselves.  It should be a source of pride for them that they can take care of their own needs.  When you deny them that you do them no favor.[/quote]

As a family you take care of each other.  Its not about if one person can do it.  Its about being a family and a collective.  If I'm cooking and serving food, I do it for everyone.  If my child is cooking, he will offer the rest of us food, etc.  We all help each other out.  [/quote]

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