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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HHI $250K, 2 WOH parents, 2 kids (preschooler and infant)

No cleaning service b/c I want the kids to be able to develop those skills.  I grew up in a house with a live-in nanny/housekeeper.  When I went to college, I had no idea how to do laundry or dishes, much less clean a house.  I take care of the daily maintenance after the kids go to bed.  We (DH, DD, and I) dedicate an hour or two each weekend to do a deeper clean.  The areas of deep cleaning rotate every other week to keep the weekend chore list short. [/quote]

Honest question - how is having a once-a-week housecleaner incompatible with learning how to clean up after yourself?  You eat on dishes every day, yes?  Do you think that people with a weekly cleaning service are leaving them to pile up for the housekeeper to wash?  No, they are not.  You wear clothes every day, yes?  Do you think that people with a housekeeper leave them thrown all over the house for the housekeeper to pick up?  No, they do not.  I can think of lots of things we clean and straighten up every day, and we still do them and have our child do them, too.  But at 5 my child is too young to clean bathrooms, the kitchen, run the vaccum or wash the laundry by himself.  He helps as he can.  He feeds the dog.  He sets and clears the table for dinner.  He collects all the bath towels/bath mats to be put in the washer each weekend.  He wipes down the sink after he brushes his teeth.  He hangs up his towel after his bath.  These are things a 5yo can do.  When he is old enough to pitch in in a meaningful way, perhaps we'll ditch the cleaner.  But for the moment, having a cleaner takes things off MY plate and DH's plate so that I don't feel like we are working two full time jobs each.  It doesn't mean we are teaching our child to be a helpless slob.[/quote]

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