What would you do?
Hi Everyone,
I was just reading "Dear Abby" which had an interesting story about a little girl and laundry.
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I both have professional jobs and share housework. I do all the laundry, she does all the cooking, and we share the cleaning. That's not the problem. The problem is our 7-year-old daughter "Vanessa's" habit of changing clothes whenever she feels the urge.
My logic says that by the end of the week, Vanessa should have seven dirty outfits -- one or two outfits of deviation is acceptable to me. However, that's not the case. Every week, it seems like I wash Vanessa's entire wardrobe! My wife says, "That's what little girls do."
Abby, I was raised with three brothers and my wife was raised with three sisters, so she has more experience than I do. Experience aside, I feel Vanessa needs to be talked to about not changing so often -- or at least putting an outfit back in the drawer if it has only been worn an hour or two. Help! -- LORD OF THE LAUNDRY, ROCHESTER, N.Y.
What do you think the parents should do? C'mon, give an opinion. Bye,bye Mark

7 Comments:
Hi Mark,
Maybe the father can put the clean clothes back in the drawer and pretend that they've been washed.
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Hi Penny,
I think that's a very interesting and good way to handle the problem. Actually, since the clothes are not even really dirty, the girl probably won't even know what her father did.
Thanks for the post.
Bye,bye, Penny. Mark
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I think if I were her parents, I will teach her in a soft way - tell her what she should do and what shouldn't do. If she does what I want, I will give her a prize, like training animals in a circus.^^
Hi Cake,
Ho,ho,ho!You will be a good parent and animal trainer:)
Bye,Bye. Cake. Mark
I would talk to her and try to let her not change the clothes so often. But I would also tell her that if the clothes are really dirty or sweated, then it is ok to change for the new clothes.
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