15 shirts a week

[theonlygirl]

DS2 starts big school in September, meaning there will be 15 shirts in the laundry each week. DH 5, DS1 5, DS2 5.
no issue washing and drying them but it will be a cold day in hell before I stand ironing their shirts. I don't use a tumbledryer so they all definitely need ironing.

Option 1 - make them iron their own.
Option 2 - drycleaners

Curious to know what others do

What I don't get @Quincythequince is why you equate a child making their own breakfast or ironing their own clothes with lazy parenting? You haven't tidied the house, walked the dog or mown the lawn so why is that not lazy parenting?

Read my earlier posts for clarity, but I’ll explain myself in detail again!

All kids should do chores - never said any differently. Mine did some today!

But making a task that is required consistently week in and out, for an item needed daily during term time and which is a basic requirement for a child, and then making it that 11 year old child responsiblikty because you don’t want to do it - is lazy.

None of the tasks my kids did when I was out needed to be done at all today, by them, weren’t needed for themselves specifically and they are older regardless.

How’d you get showered, dried, dressed, hair done, make up on and wash hung in half hour. What magic do you have I need it lol

What does the number of times someone has done a search for a cereal have to do with whether something is nutritionally shocking or not ?

But making a task that is required consistently week in and out, for an item needed daily during term time and which is a basic requirement for a child, and then making it that 11 year old child responsiblikty because you don’t want to do it - is lazy.

Why are you assuming it is because parents who encourage their dc to be independent are doing it because they don't want to do it ?
Has it not crossed your mind that encouraging everyone who lives in a home to contribute at their own level, is a positive thing ?
Also that in most families where parents are encouraging their dc to be fairly self reliant the parents aren't actually lazing around on their chaise longue watching Good Morning Britain, but are actually either out at work, or maybe supporting their own parents before they go in to work, or maybe younger siblings or disabled siblings who need more support or walking the dog, or may actually be disabled or ill themselves ?

M and S non iron up on hanger while damp or invest in a dryer and hang them up as soon as the dryer stops. X

Also could you afford an ironing lady. X

90 minutes - 6 to 7.30.

I doubt a couple of creases in a shirt isn't going to effect how smart they look and they probably wear jumpers most of the time anyway. Also, why do they have to spend time doing something because you think it looks better?.

🤦‍♀️Just realising I read this as if she spent an hour baking first 😂😂 makes sense now!

It was back in the day. When I had energy lol.

I think the key was being an early riser. I have never slept long - 6 hours would be typical. In the evenings? 9pm and I'm fit for nothing other than vegetating (and no, I don't mean planting my own veg lol). I mean plonking down until I drag myself to bed.

When you've an hour and a half before anyone else is up, I find you can get a million and one things done which would take you half a day when the noise of life starts to bombard you. I'm most productive in the mornings. Even at work, I always get the more difficult tasks out of the way first thing in the morning. My concentration seems better.
I didn't grow up in a loving home. For me, to just have them waking up to kindness meant a lot. It's just how my life has shaped me into how I parent.

My husband irons his own shirts. I "can't iron" (wink)

All school shirts I've had look absolutely fine shaken and hung up on hangers to dry. Haven't ironed one in seven years and don't use a tumble dryer. People seriously iron kids' shirts? As for other adults, you're mad. They do their own.

Stop with the whataboutery!
I am talking about the specifically, and then with regards to fritter comments on this thread.

All those things you say could be true, fair enough. But it’s not the case here, and. Or wWhat was being discussed.

Parent your kids, take care of them, do nice things for them because you can and not make them do things because you hate it and can’t be bothered!

I also work and have plenty of things to do, and guess what, I like taking responsibility for my children who I am responsible for helping keep clean, well-dressed and fed!

And for the 50th time - I have said kids should contribute in the house. I have said this repeatedly!

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This is the same list, not behind a paywall.

@Quincythequince - I think you're out of order accusing the OP of lazy parenting because she doesn't want to iron 15 shirts every week. Just because you like doing certain things for your kids does not make you the better parent.

I only have ds shirts to think about and I send them for a wash and iron service each week. I've never ironed anything since the kids were born and wasn't going to start 12 years later!

Her not yet at secondary school child, aged 11, needs only 5.

I said nothing about the other ten, in fact, I actively only commented on one’s for the younger lad.

So no, I’m not out of order, but you can’t extract information properly, if you bothered to read it at all.

Just because you like doing certain things for your kids does not make you the better parent

Err, yes, it kind of does. If you see this as a fundamental part of parenting.

And FTR, I don’t iron any shirts for my boys - I tumble then, shake them
out and hang them.

But if an 11 year old (mind are older) needed 5 clean, ironed shirts per week, I wouldn’t refuse outright to do it, and not when I’d been doing it for his older sibling for years.

Don't be so bloody rude @Quincythequince. You clearly think you are superior as a parent and a poster.

I’m responding to the comments made about me, and I’ll say what I like thanks within the rules of this forum.

I could say ‘don’t be so bloody sensitive’ but I actually don’t care if you are or not, or continue to be if so.

So why say it?

To highlight the irrelevance of yours.

Any cereal is better than a bottle of fizzy/energy drink and a sharing size bag of crisps thst I see lots of teens rolling out of our local supermarket with on the way to school.