Kid-Friendly Chores: Teach your Son to Fold the cloths
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In our society, most of the mothers never really taught their sons how to do laundry and folding the clothes.
She never feels the necessity of explaining the process, of washing, drying, and folding own
laundry even by the age of 18 years; when he lived at home. They learned these things on compulsion when they
went to a hostel for higher study. I’m sure at the beginning boys didn’t
really have the ideas about how to remove certain stains, what temperature is best for certain clothes, the importance of separating clothes by color or
fabric, and so on. I am a firm believer in teaching son's to do chores
around the house which really ultimately helps to reduce frustration and exhaustion of each and every son.
Anyways, every time a child has to work, it is
according to his age. At this age of 2 or 3-year, one can really start to
become helpful around the house. And the best part is that kids at this age are
actually eager to help you with anything. So we should encourage them.
Like when I was doing the folding of clothes, my son Rohinish comes to me and
expresses his willingness to help me. We might think our child is too young to do that.
But our kids may be more capable than what we think about. First I show him how to fold
the cloths step by step. Next, let him free to do it. I usually give him to
fold his tees, socks, handkerchief, etc. My 3-year-old tried his best to get his
clothes folded quite tidily on the first try but he could not. I praise him
that you're going right away! That really encourages him while he folding the
cloths. I still remember when he was around 1.5 years old he used to play with
all washcloths and mess the room. And now he comes to help me. It's a big deal
to me.
Tips: How to encourage your son to help with
laundry:
- sort out dirty clothes by color and size,
- hand over the clothes to mom to put in the
washing machine,
- transferring clothes from the washing machine
into a laundry basket
- folding the socks and washcloths.
- Sort out a sibling's or other's clothes into another pile.
I believe that doing household chores at young ages teach those responsibilities, give
them a feeling of importance, and helps them build up gratitude and appreciation for
what we as parents do and that lead to understanding how important it is to participate in taking care of
the home.
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