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<blockquote data-quote="Nikimoto" data-source="post: 650458" data-attributes="member: 18791"><p>We have never been the openly giving kind of parents. Our children are taught the self respect of earning and saving. He gets jobs easily, can be very charismatic, but also easily cons people. He had a guy at his last job giving him money to do laundry though he had his own money, and bringing him food, though he had access to all the food he needed here. He's just a con, and a belligerent one at that.</p><p>As to his laundry being done out of his pocket? Well, my policy even years, a whole decade before I married his wonderful step dad, was to start the laundry on Friday morning, have everything in the hampers, I do it all. That evolved slightly over the years, to the older the kids got, showing them how to start loads, help with the drying either by machine or line, help with folding and putting away. This was eventually eroded by him into not doing any of it. He would sit on the floor and look at me dumbly as I threatened to give all his unfolded laundry to goodwill if he refused to care for it. He would keep his filthy clothes in his room for two weeks until he ran short, then instead of bringing it on Fridays, would load up the empty hampers on Sunday nights, claiming he forgot. I dumped those hampers into the middle of his floor and said no. He began to lie that we refused to allow him clean laundry. I one day refused to allow him to use our home laundry any longer, just fed up with his petty conceit. So stupid to pick that fight. When he finally moved in with his brother, which I doubt was the best idea in the world, he still refused to take his own $6 to the laundry mat a couple blocks from here and pack all his clothes. He left them in the garbage bags I had put them into. So, I washed, dried, folded and donated them all to goodwill like I said. He started demanding for me to send the rest of his stuff after he left in a nasty, ungrateful huff, and was succinctly told he has no stuff here.</p><p>Done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nikimoto, post: 650458, member: 18791"] We have never been the openly giving kind of parents. Our children are taught the self respect of earning and saving. He gets jobs easily, can be very charismatic, but also easily cons people. He had a guy at his last job giving him money to do laundry though he had his own money, and bringing him food, though he had access to all the food he needed here. He's just a con, and a belligerent one at that. As to his laundry being done out of his pocket? Well, my policy even years, a whole decade before I married his wonderful step dad, was to start the laundry on Friday morning, have everything in the hampers, I do it all. That evolved slightly over the years, to the older the kids got, showing them how to start loads, help with the drying either by machine or line, help with folding and putting away. This was eventually eroded by him into not doing any of it. He would sit on the floor and look at me dumbly as I threatened to give all his unfolded laundry to goodwill if he refused to care for it. He would keep his filthy clothes in his room for two weeks until he ran short, then instead of bringing it on Fridays, would load up the empty hampers on Sunday nights, claiming he forgot. I dumped those hampers into the middle of his floor and said no. He began to lie that we refused to allow him clean laundry. I one day refused to allow him to use our home laundry any longer, just fed up with his petty conceit. So stupid to pick that fight. When he finally moved in with his brother, which I doubt was the best idea in the world, he still refused to take his own $6 to the laundry mat a couple blocks from here and pack all his clothes. He left them in the garbage bags I had put them into. So, I washed, dried, folded and donated them all to goodwill like I said. He started demanding for me to send the rest of his stuff after he left in a nasty, ungrateful huff, and was succinctly told he has no stuff here. Done. [/QUOTE]
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