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Wargod

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Zmom, actually he can help. It's a game! I used to dread doing laundry (ok, still do, but not because of this anymore, lol) because the kids would always end up right smack dab in the middle of what I was doing. If I had clothes in a pile, they'd play in it, sit on it, crawl through it.

Now we play the laundry game. They go through pockets looking for money (they get to keep any they find,) and they help to sort colors. Then I stand there and direct them as they put the load of laundry in the washer. I still end up moving it to the dryer and taking it out, but they're even getting into the folding part now with towels. Then they get to put everything away. They have races to see who can do the fastest and neatest job.

It still involves alot of work for me, but the kids enjoy helping, and it does save me some time. Plus I know when I can trust them enough not to turn everything pink, they'll know how to do it on their own, lol.

Zachsmom

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL War..yes Zachary "helps" with the laundry (he is meticulous about putting his clothes in the hamper)..better than I do..lol he gets after me all the time..he also helps with putting items in neat piles (I sort..he makes the pile "round") but he can't carry the laundry down the stairs, cross the road, to the laundry room and load the laundry soap, laundry card etc..

he's a great helper around the house.Especially vacuming..he has his own vacum that works better than mine..lol!

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We went camping one time with a family that was even poorer than we were when I was a kid. They had about three kids. One of the little girls had a birthday while we were camping, and they gave her a little broom for a birthday present, and she used it to sweep up around camp. I thought it was a kinda cool birthday present, as well as very practical. My mother was just horrified.

Wargod

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, thats a ways to go for laundry! I bought the kids small trashcans with lids for their clothes. They're big enough for a weeks worth of clothes, small enough little ones can handle them. The kids LOVE LOVE LOVE going through pockets. I'm the worst at leaving change and bills in my pockets, and they usually make a fortune finding it.

LOL Juju, I gave my niece a broom, dustpan, and vacuum one year for Christmas and she loved them. Followed her mom around while she did housework.

Zachsmom

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL War!

My son has one of those McDonald cash-register-checkoutstations(-whatever you want to call it) in his play room. I was helping him clean up his area and opened the register. He had 5.00 in change in there! I have NO CLUE where he got it from..lol kid has more money than I do!! I asked him where he got the money and he played "innocent" on me..just kept saying "what?" "What?"

Wargod

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hehehe, Darren used to work part time for his families vending machine company. Once a week, he'd fill two machines, empty the money out, then bring the money bags home where they sat for the week til he went back to the shop. Caleb was well aware of the "whatever money you find and pick up you can keep rule" even though he was only about 3 at the time.

I came home one day to find the money bag sitting on the table with all the money piled on top (we're talking about 60 bucks in change, plus close to 50 in bills, lol.) Caleb found the bag, and had decided it was his! To make matters worse, he had gone and gotten his money and was playing with all of it when mom found him. She freaked out so bad, she didn't bother to find out what was Caleb's before getting it all together. Taught us real quick to make sure the money bags were put out of reach!

Zachsmom

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Kids are so cute!

note to self, find bags at wargods

Tabbyking

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i had to laugh at the
'where did the other sock go' thoughts. many years ago, the new york times had a comic strip about that.
a man put 6 pair of socks into to be washed and when he removed things from the dryer, there was one sock missing. he put another 6 pair of socks in and 3 socks were missing. so he put no socks in and a note came out saying, "quit screwing with the laws of nature and feed me more socks!"

Tabbyking

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
too late to edit....obviously i left something out in one line! a man put 6 pair of socks in to be washed...not into to.
at one time, i could actually put whole sentences together. well, 'i useta could'. and if things go right, i 'might could' again, to quote jeff foxworthy.

Jan

Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 08:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oops Sorry Zachsmom. For some reason I thought you had talked about Zachsdad in other threads and that Zach was a teenager. Must have been my always very faulty memory.

I'm sorry for my stupid comment