Laundry and the kids?
Question:I've got 4 teenagers in the house, help.
I have them do their own laundry and if they don't have anything to wear its their own fault.
The problem is when my wife and I sometimes do our laundry one of them will go down there and take it out of the washer or dryer and just throw it on the floor just because they need to do their laundry.
They're in school right now and I'm on my way to work and I'm so angry right now.
What would you do about it?
I'm really upset that I have a kid that would do this.
Answers:
oh, that kid would GET IT!
let's talk about severe grounding.
teens need, more now than ever, to learn how to respect other people.
it's great that they will do their own laundry. good work on half the battle.
BUT, they need to learn how to respect you guys and your things.
teens are hard to punish, and it's hard to make the punishment fit the crime when they get older.
i would recommend they either get grounded...major grounded. none of this mambi pambi, tv in the room, movies, cel phone etc.
they get cut off. no phone, no friends over, no texting, no emails or internet unless it's school (you need to supervise this).they go nowhere with no one unless it's a family activity.
i would recommend at least 2 weeks of this.
make sure you tell they why...that they didn't respect you or your clothes and put their needs in front of someone else's which is wrong.
OR if the grounding is a no go, then make them do EVERYONE's laundry for a month.they must fluff and fold and iron every garment for every person in the house. if they disrespect their things, then they get another week added on!
good luck...teenagers suck. i know, b/c i used to be one.
Give them a taste of their own medicine.what they are doing is very disrespectful.
Presumably you have baskets available that are not being used? If not, put out a basket for people to put other people's laundry in...
Apart from that, you need to come up with a consequence that they will really not like, and that will keep them from doing it. You are the best judge of something you can limit or take away in response to this behavior.
I have to say that if my kids ever threw my laundry on the floor I would take everything they leave out of place including dirty underwear and socks and books and whatever they didn't put away and start piling it up on their pillows. If they leave out their shoes, put it on the their pillow. If they don't flush the toilet, leave a pile of toilet paper on their pillow. If they don't rinse off their dirty dishes, leave em on their pillow. They will at least learn to pick up after themselves more.
why are you leaving your laundry unattended?
I'm in a 2 family house and we share the laundry machine/dryer and where to put the other's clean cloths is often a challenge. I leave a basket down there and my laundry just goes into the basket. The best solution though, in my experience, is a table next to the machines that the laundry can be put upon. This way it doesn't get dirty and yet the kids can use the machine. Spare baskets labelled wet and dry might be also good so you know where the clothes came from. If the table is big enough, then perhaps there's room for other's laundry since you have 4 kids. Good Luck!
Well the only thing to do would be ,find out who done the deed.Then get that person to re-do your laundry and put it away for you.I can guarantee it will only happen once.The person who's laundry is in the washer done the deed.They need to show more respect for your laundry and the environment for the excess energy used.They are too old for that ,just let them know that you are the King of your castle and your clothes do not belong on the floor..hope this helps.Remember teens or not they will always be your children.
Laundry is so tiresome and frustrating.
Our teenage kids do their own laundry too and they always forget about it. I will usually move it form the washer to drier or from the drier to the basket if I need to do my wash - except for my eldest. She is very picky about how she does her laundry so I will dump hers into her basket wet or on to the floor if her basket is not around. Then put it back into the washer for her to deal with!
I would suggest talking to them about what to do when laundry is "in the way". Do you mind if they move yours to the dryer? Do you want it put into a basket wet if you have forgotten it? Setting rules may help with this.
Usually I get up a bit earlier one day a week. None of the kids do laundry in the morning. I am usually done with it by 7am.
Good Luck!
ummm! that is YOUR house and YOUR machines! tell whoever did that gets to pay you the price of your clothes with the allowance you give them. if that doesn't work, take fun things away from them, sleepovers, partys, etc...if worse comes to worse -do unto others as you would have done to you _do the same with their clothes!
Provide empty laundry baskets with big signs, i.e. Clean Clothes from Dryer HERE and Clean Clothes from Washer HERE. Do not presume your teenanger are malicious. They are just thoughtless and/or oblivious to the outside world.
If all else fails, enroll them in military school.
You just need to provide them with a place to put your DRY clothes, like a basket or table. If they toss your wet clothes on the floor then they are just being disrespectful and that needs to be addressed. You could also put a special basket marked for wet clothes if you are afraid that something will go in the dryer that shouldn't. They need to be taught that it is just as easy to put the clothes in the dryer as it is to put them on the floor. Don't try to teach them by throwing their laundry on the floor because you will be giving them the ok to do it back to you.
OK. Punishment is the key. If this is a first offense, tell them what will happen the next time. If this has occurred in the past, tell them THAT'S IT, and give them a fitting punishment, like grounding or making them do your laundry, properly, for a week or whatever. In our house, I have 2 older teens, when they need wash done, they sort all the dirty clothes and then I put it in the wash and dryer and they take it out and fold every ones laundry. (Anything that needs to be hung to dry is done by the person assigned to that "chore" for the week.) I am a stay at home mom, because of injury, and instead of using all my time to clean up after them, my hubby laid down the law. They each have "chores" they are responsible for, and if it isn't done correctly, they redo the chore and are sometimes made to pay a small fee, they both work. They are okay with us spending our money on them, but they are tight with their money, so charging them for not doing their chore properly or not at all works for us. The older one pays a minimal rent because she is out of high school and works full time. The other one graduates this year so he won't pay rent until at least fall, if he goes to school, he won't be charged rent, but he will pay fines. Hope you come up with something that will work for you!
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