Is there such a thing as gender equality? Now that I'm pregnant, I have become more dependent on my husband for those "manly" things that I can't do myself. For example, Grant has to get things down from tall shelves, especially heavy things, to prevent the possibility of falling. If it's over 20 pounds, he has to lift it from the trunk of my car. Picking up dog poop? It's definitely a man's job now. As is cleaning the toilet (gag).
However, along with his increasing responsibilities, I've noticed he has been dishing some of his former "female" responsibilities onto me. I've been cooking more and doing the dishes. And, I don't think he has done laundry himself since I have become pregnant. Shopping for the baby? He's definitely not interested. Decorating the baby's room? He did the paint and installed the closet organizer (after much nagging on my part)... the touch up, well, I guess that is left to me (after not being done for 2 months).
There are some things that make gender "equality" impossible (such as opening pickle jars) for many of us. Other things, I think, have gotten better. I'm very blessed to have a husband who normally does his fair share of chores, does not spend all our money on his interests, and who is supportive of my career. He is kind and respectful. I hope that all my friends find the same type of support and equal partnership in their relationships.
Grant sent me the following clip, which made me laugh and made think about the way "equality" is defined in our relationship. The clip is a lot more interesting, by the way, than my sappy post. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
These are a few of my favorite things...
I like it when it's sunny.
I like being around smart people.
I like it when my husband brings me coffee in bed.
I like payday.
I like it when people post comments on my blog.
I like presents.
I like surfing and snowboarding.
I like to laugh.
I like getting a pedicure.
I like nice wine.
I am in a good mood today and am grateful there are so many things out there that I like. I notice that a lot of blogs talk about things people don't like (including mind) and I thought it would be a nice change to talk about what I do like.
Of course, this blog isn't just blubbering about what I like. I read an article last week about a study that showed that people rated wine based on the price, rather than the taste. For example, they gave people the same wine but just changed the price. People rated the wine with the higher price as better! The full story is below.
This makes me question some of the things I like. Have I been sucked into a high-price mirage? Can a 20 dollar pedicure really be as pleasurable as a 40 dollar one? Is a Coach purse truly worth more than one from Target? Can I trust my own likes? I think I am going to focus on experiences more than products this year. The experience of riding a wave, of drinking a great cup of coffee (sorry, but the vanilla creamer is worth the price), of watching a sunset, of being with my family. Those are things that are worth it, no matter what the price!
With wines, does price = pleasure?
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University published a recent study showing that people were more likely to prefer a wine they thought was expensive, versus the same wine labeled at a lower price. Even their brains reacted differently; they registered more activity in an area of the brain related to pleasure when they thought they were drinking a $90 bottle of wine than when they drank the same stuff labeled at $10.
But here's the kicker: When they didn't know the price of the wines, they preferred the least-expensive one.
Keep that in mind when you're shopping for wines. Don't automatically equate high price with high quality. It's true that many pricier wines are superb, and that the world's very best wines never cost $5 or $10. But in Consumer Reports blind wine tests, in which our expert testers know neither the label nor the price, some relatively inexpensive wines earn the highest Ratings. Conversely, some $20 or even $30 wines garner mediocre scores.
I like being around smart people.
I like it when my husband brings me coffee in bed.
I like payday.
I like it when people post comments on my blog.
I like presents.
I like surfing and snowboarding.
I like to laugh.
I like getting a pedicure.
I like nice wine.
I am in a good mood today and am grateful there are so many things out there that I like. I notice that a lot of blogs talk about things people don't like (including mind) and I thought it would be a nice change to talk about what I do like.
Of course, this blog isn't just blubbering about what I like. I read an article last week about a study that showed that people rated wine based on the price, rather than the taste. For example, they gave people the same wine but just changed the price. People rated the wine with the higher price as better! The full story is below.
This makes me question some of the things I like. Have I been sucked into a high-price mirage? Can a 20 dollar pedicure really be as pleasurable as a 40 dollar one? Is a Coach purse truly worth more than one from Target? Can I trust my own likes? I think I am going to focus on experiences more than products this year. The experience of riding a wave, of drinking a great cup of coffee (sorry, but the vanilla creamer is worth the price), of watching a sunset, of being with my family. Those are things that are worth it, no matter what the price!
With wines, does price = pleasure?
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University published a recent study showing that people were more likely to prefer a wine they thought was expensive, versus the same wine labeled at a lower price. Even their brains reacted differently; they registered more activity in an area of the brain related to pleasure when they thought they were drinking a $90 bottle of wine than when they drank the same stuff labeled at $10.
But here's the kicker: When they didn't know the price of the wines, they preferred the least-expensive one.
Keep that in mind when you're shopping for wines. Don't automatically equate high price with high quality. It's true that many pricier wines are superb, and that the world's very best wines never cost $5 or $10. But in Consumer Reports blind wine tests, in which our expert testers know neither the label nor the price, some relatively inexpensive wines earn the highest Ratings. Conversely, some $20 or even $30 wines garner mediocre scores.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
futbol americano
Today we watched the Chargers game at one of my friends' homes. In the spirit of full disclosure, this was the first game I've watched all season! And now that the Chargers have lost, it is the last game I will watch this season. Grant and I spent some time talking with a guy from England at the game, who had some interesting commentary on American football, including:
-how it's the only sport where fat people are considered athletes (Though Grant countered that sumo wrestling also idolizes fat people. However, after a quick discussion, they agreed that sumo wrestling cannot be considered a sport.)
-how it's a lazy sport (Why throw the ball when you could kick it?)
-how the cheerleaders are less interesting when they have to wear parkas (Poor things, it's freezing outside!)
-why wear pads and helmets? Rugby players go without. There is not enough blood in football.
I always appreciate meeting people from other parts of the world and learning new perspectives. Next time I want to skip out of watching a game, I have four new reasons to give besides just having a headache! :)
-how it's the only sport where fat people are considered athletes (Though Grant countered that sumo wrestling also idolizes fat people. However, after a quick discussion, they agreed that sumo wrestling cannot be considered a sport.)
-how it's a lazy sport (Why throw the ball when you could kick it?)
-how the cheerleaders are less interesting when they have to wear parkas (Poor things, it's freezing outside!)
-why wear pads and helmets? Rugby players go without. There is not enough blood in football.
I always appreciate meeting people from other parts of the world and learning new perspectives. Next time I want to skip out of watching a game, I have four new reasons to give besides just having a headache! :)
Thursday, January 10, 2008
My favorite 2007 e-mail forward
Thanks for all the Emails! As we close out 2007, let me thank all of you for all those emails this past year.......
I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat shit in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown); who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. I am now broke but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program .
Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $7 million
with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died in the States.I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St.Theresa's novena has granted my every wish. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer can buy gas without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me. I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan ..Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my ass.
And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the $5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg. If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back,causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician. By the way... a South American scientist after a lengthy study has
discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse. Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!
I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat shit in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown); who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. I am now broke but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program .
Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $7 million
with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died in the States.I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St.Theresa's novena has granted my every wish. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer can buy gas without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me. I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan ..Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my ass.
And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the $5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg. If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back,causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician. By the way... a South American scientist after a lengthy study has
discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse. Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Ring in the Drama!
New Years Eve was fun for us... we ended up doing the Hornblower excursion, complete with dinner and dancing. At midnight we saw the great fireworks show over the city, from the boat. It was a lot of fun and a nice, romantic way to spend our last childless new year eve.
However, the evening was not without drama. My best friend avoids making any plans on "high expectation" nights like new years because of the "inevitable" letdown. Well, I was able to witness this letdown first-hand with two separate, but equally intoxicated and humorously wicked couples.
The first was in line for the boat. The woman behind us looked like she came right out of Playboy. She was really attractive, fake boobs, fake blond hair, etc. Her boyfriend was not as attractive, but isn't that almost always the case? Grant tells me they are in a 415v, code for a verbal altercation (the neat thing about us both knowing codes is that we can talk about other people when they least suspect it!). Anyway, the fight was pretty bad. She didn't want to go on the cruise (no cheap trip, either, tickets were nearly 200 bucks a piece). She wanted to hang out with her friends. So, she ditched him. Poor guy went back to the counter to see about getting a refund, but they don't do refunds, so he was out of luck. Grant noted, you always pay with women like that.
The second encounter was with the drunk white-trash couples sitting next to us. First of all, both women were in their 40s and somehow managed to squeeze into ill-fitting 1990 satin prom dresses. Not a pretty sight. One of the husbands text messaged his ex-wife before dinner and all shit broke loose. His current wife got up and threw her chair and had a major meltdown. I watched with great amusement, but the older gentleman on the other side of their table was not amused. He told the husband, "can't you make your wife shut the fuck up?" Wow, that was great, especially because the guy looked like an old British dude from an Agatha Christy novel; not the one you'd expect to be starting a confrontation with a drunk white trash dude 30 years his junior!
The guy, although highly annoyed (at this point the wife had thrown about 4 tantrums) said, "Hey, what do you want me to do, throw her off the boat?" At which point Grant said, "Yeah, that would be great." Ha. I had to remind Grant that he was on a date and that starting a fist fight would land him in the brig...For a moment though, I think he was excited about the possibility of knocking someone out. Well, those two ended up fighting somewhere else on the cruise ship and we had a nice, peaceful evening.
One thing I learned about dancing pregnant (I haven't danced since I was 5 months) is that my belly is big and I bounce off my partner. Grant, of course, thought the bouncing was funny, so he purposely stuck his belly out so that I would repel off of it after every turn. After a while, I felt like a teatherball and we went upstairs to watch the city from the top of the boat. I think that was Grant's plan after all!
Next new year eve I am planning on returning to our tradition of doing nothing. Maybe renting a drama rather than watching it live. And definitely having some champagne!
However, the evening was not without drama. My best friend avoids making any plans on "high expectation" nights like new years because of the "inevitable" letdown. Well, I was able to witness this letdown first-hand with two separate, but equally intoxicated and humorously wicked couples.
The first was in line for the boat. The woman behind us looked like she came right out of Playboy. She was really attractive, fake boobs, fake blond hair, etc. Her boyfriend was not as attractive, but isn't that almost always the case? Grant tells me they are in a 415v, code for a verbal altercation (the neat thing about us both knowing codes is that we can talk about other people when they least suspect it!). Anyway, the fight was pretty bad. She didn't want to go on the cruise (no cheap trip, either, tickets were nearly 200 bucks a piece). She wanted to hang out with her friends. So, she ditched him. Poor guy went back to the counter to see about getting a refund, but they don't do refunds, so he was out of luck. Grant noted, you always pay with women like that.
The second encounter was with the drunk white-trash couples sitting next to us. First of all, both women were in their 40s and somehow managed to squeeze into ill-fitting 1990 satin prom dresses. Not a pretty sight. One of the husbands text messaged his ex-wife before dinner and all shit broke loose. His current wife got up and threw her chair and had a major meltdown. I watched with great amusement, but the older gentleman on the other side of their table was not amused. He told the husband, "can't you make your wife shut the fuck up?" Wow, that was great, especially because the guy looked like an old British dude from an Agatha Christy novel; not the one you'd expect to be starting a confrontation with a drunk white trash dude 30 years his junior!
The guy, although highly annoyed (at this point the wife had thrown about 4 tantrums) said, "Hey, what do you want me to do, throw her off the boat?" At which point Grant said, "Yeah, that would be great." Ha. I had to remind Grant that he was on a date and that starting a fist fight would land him in the brig...For a moment though, I think he was excited about the possibility of knocking someone out. Well, those two ended up fighting somewhere else on the cruise ship and we had a nice, peaceful evening.
One thing I learned about dancing pregnant (I haven't danced since I was 5 months) is that my belly is big and I bounce off my partner. Grant, of course, thought the bouncing was funny, so he purposely stuck his belly out so that I would repel off of it after every turn. After a while, I felt like a teatherball and we went upstairs to watch the city from the top of the boat. I think that was Grant's plan after all!
Next new year eve I am planning on returning to our tradition of doing nothing. Maybe renting a drama rather than watching it live. And definitely having some champagne!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
The Best Things Said This Year, Oh, what a Year!
These are Shapiro's 10 most memorable quotes for 2007, in descending order:
10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -Former President Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper
9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -Sen. Joseph Biden, referring to rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama
8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." -Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men's room
7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, referring to Republican Vice President Dick Cheney
6. "There's only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and
9/11." Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates
5. "I don't recall." -Former U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questions from members of Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys
4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." -Radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team
3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." -Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a speaking engagement at Columbia University in New York
2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." -Lauren Upton, the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map
And, my personal favorite....
1. "Don't tase me, bro." -Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, after being hauled away by campus police during a speech made by Sen. John Kerry
Have you ever seen someone get tased? I have, many times... it's not pretty. I watched our whole Sheriff's Dept. get tased... the guys did it so they could testify in court as to the actualy feelig/effects of being tased.
In case you haven't seen a true tase for yourself, here's an early Christmas present from me. Were the cops right or wrong? Well, to me that's not what's important here. What's important to me is that if I ever have a cop tell me I'm getting tased, you better belive I will stop resisting. There's nothing worse than a strong volt of electricity raging through your body and then risking peeing your pants in front of a room full of university students and a presidential candidate. Talk about a bad day!
May your New Year go out with a bang and not a sizzle!
10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." -Former President Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper
9. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -Sen. Joseph Biden, referring to rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama
8. "(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom." -Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men's room
7. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, referring to Republican Vice President Dick Cheney
6. "There's only three things he (Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and
9/11." Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates
5. "I don't recall." -Former U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questions from members of Congress about the firing of U.S. attorneys
4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there." -Radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team
3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." -Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a speaking engagement at Columbia University in New York
2. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us." -Lauren Upton, the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map
And, my personal favorite....
1. "Don't tase me, bro." -Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, after being hauled away by campus police during a speech made by Sen. John Kerry
Have you ever seen someone get tased? I have, many times... it's not pretty. I watched our whole Sheriff's Dept. get tased... the guys did it so they could testify in court as to the actualy feelig/effects of being tased.
In case you haven't seen a true tase for yourself, here's an early Christmas present from me. Were the cops right or wrong? Well, to me that's not what's important here. What's important to me is that if I ever have a cop tell me I'm getting tased, you better belive I will stop resisting. There's nothing worse than a strong volt of electricity raging through your body and then risking peeing your pants in front of a room full of university students and a presidential candidate. Talk about a bad day!
May your New Year go out with a bang and not a sizzle!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Dirty Underwear
First, an update to my last post. Grant got a hat in the mail from the car dealership and I got NOTHING. Bah Humbug to them!
We have had an interesting time with our 10-year old. After doing five loads of her laundry on a weekly basis, I noticed that she was putting clean clothes in her hamper and that was why I felt like I was always washing her clothes. I am guessing she does this because she is too lazy to put them into a drawer. For example, she would change from her play clothes to a shirt, which she would wear to dinner and then put it in the hamper. I would tell her, "your shirt is not dirty, you can put it away and wear it again." But, she didn't listen and the shirt would end up in the hamper and in the washing machine, along with other clean clothes. Same thing with pajamas. Wear them once, they are in the hamper. She has four pairs of PJs, so after the fourth day I noticed she was wearing long t-shirts, which also ended up in the hamper. Now, I talked to her about this over and over again but since she isn't the one doing the laundry, she never changed.
Well, guess what? I got sick of it and refused to do her laundry anymore. I bought her a little detergent thing and told her and my husband that I am no longer washing her clothes. I taught her to use the washing machine and drier and then I sat back and waited.
Being bossy and controlling, I had a hard time not reminding her to do her laundry. I also had a hard time not reminding my husband to do her laundry. I just let it go... disengaged is the "formal" word for it.
Well, two weeks went by and it was time to get ready for a party. She had nothing to wear. Literally, no pants to wear. Grant and her were supposed to go riding the next day and she had no jeans and had not washed her jersey. Turns out, she was also out of clean underwear. Yuck!
Now, part of me felt guilty that the 10 year old was about to wear dirty underwear. But, on the other hand, I clearly explained to both her and her father that I was no longer washing her clothes. I explained the consequences of not washing her own clothes and made sure she understood them. At the end of the day, clean clothes is just not very important to her (is it to any 10 year old)?
This is not the '90s. Grunge is out. Cleanliness is in. In fact, it is next to godliness. Kids are sparkling clean now. I don't see stained shirts at school or dirty, unwashed hair. Clothes fit, unlike when I was a preteen and wore boy shorts to school that sagged down and showed my underwear.
I did my own laundry at 12 years old. My mom started doing hers at 7. On the other hand, Grant didn't do his until he moved out of him home (well, he was 14). And my father has never washed his own clothes. Is it asking too much for a 10 year old to keep herself clean and to launder her own clothing? Well, time will tell. Grant gave her a smaller laundry basket and told her, when this is full, you have to do your laundry. Apparently he isn't going to do it for her either. Let's just hope she figures it out before the next dirty underwear saga.
We have had an interesting time with our 10-year old. After doing five loads of her laundry on a weekly basis, I noticed that she was putting clean clothes in her hamper and that was why I felt like I was always washing her clothes. I am guessing she does this because she is too lazy to put them into a drawer. For example, she would change from her play clothes to a shirt, which she would wear to dinner and then put it in the hamper. I would tell her, "your shirt is not dirty, you can put it away and wear it again." But, she didn't listen and the shirt would end up in the hamper and in the washing machine, along with other clean clothes. Same thing with pajamas. Wear them once, they are in the hamper. She has four pairs of PJs, so after the fourth day I noticed she was wearing long t-shirts, which also ended up in the hamper. Now, I talked to her about this over and over again but since she isn't the one doing the laundry, she never changed.
Well, guess what? I got sick of it and refused to do her laundry anymore. I bought her a little detergent thing and told her and my husband that I am no longer washing her clothes. I taught her to use the washing machine and drier and then I sat back and waited.
Being bossy and controlling, I had a hard time not reminding her to do her laundry. I also had a hard time not reminding my husband to do her laundry. I just let it go... disengaged is the "formal" word for it.
Well, two weeks went by and it was time to get ready for a party. She had nothing to wear. Literally, no pants to wear. Grant and her were supposed to go riding the next day and she had no jeans and had not washed her jersey. Turns out, she was also out of clean underwear. Yuck!
Now, part of me felt guilty that the 10 year old was about to wear dirty underwear. But, on the other hand, I clearly explained to both her and her father that I was no longer washing her clothes. I explained the consequences of not washing her own clothes and made sure she understood them. At the end of the day, clean clothes is just not very important to her (is it to any 10 year old)?
This is not the '90s. Grunge is out. Cleanliness is in. In fact, it is next to godliness. Kids are sparkling clean now. I don't see stained shirts at school or dirty, unwashed hair. Clothes fit, unlike when I was a preteen and wore boy shorts to school that sagged down and showed my underwear.
I did my own laundry at 12 years old. My mom started doing hers at 7. On the other hand, Grant didn't do his until he moved out of him home (well, he was 14). And my father has never washed his own clothes. Is it asking too much for a 10 year old to keep herself clean and to launder her own clothing? Well, time will tell. Grant gave her a smaller laundry basket and told her, when this is full, you have to do your laundry. Apparently he isn't going to do it for her either. Let's just hope she figures it out before the next dirty underwear saga.
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