How To Outsource Your Laundry For Free

Is your family's laundry an albatross around your neck?

When and if you venture into your kids' rooms, do you see a sea of clothing, wet moldy towels, science experiments growing on and around your beautiful set of kitchen dishes?

Is it so horrifying that you would rather watch a the latest Stephen King film, than open that door?

And to top it off, do you have to beg, threaten and coerce to get your kids to hand over their dirty clothing so that YOU can wash them? Once you give it back, neatly folded, stacked and "clean", does it join the ranks of crumpled and moldy before your child has put it on?

Did you know that you can solve this problem by outsourcing? And it won't cost you a penny!

Here's how to do it:

• Write out easy to understand instructions for your laundry machine and dryer and tape them to the front of your machines.

• Have a field trip with your kids (11 and older) to the laundry room.

• Explain to your kids that they will be in charge of their own laundry from now on;including their towels and sheets.

• Give a laundry lesson and tell your kids that as they undress, the whites go in the white basket and everything else into the other basket.

• Assign your kids 1 or 2 days each week that they will 'get to' use the machines.

• Inform them that if they don't transfer their clothing from one machine to the other or remove their clothing from the dryer that they risk having it dumped on the floor by the next person in line to wash clothes.

• Do not bail your child out. Let them forget, let them find their clothing on the floor, wet and smelly.

You are teaching independence, accountability, respect and consideration for others. You are also teaching that all the household chores should not fall on one person (YOU). You are giving your children a gift for life. And at the same time, you get to stop nagging and you get free time and it didn't cost you a penny!

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Bio

Susan P. Epstein, LCSW, Parent Life Coach, works with parents whose children and adolescents are unmanageable. Susan graduated from the University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare.  She is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut and Rhode Island and also completed training with the Coaches Training Institute. An expert in the areas of family dynamics, parenting and child development, Susan will uncover and unleash your parenting power.

Contact information

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E-mail: susan@parentingpowers.com
 
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