SOAR, Academic Discovery, Day 7
Today, they come back from the woods and do their laundry at a laundromat on the way back to the base camp.
My son has known how to do his own laundry since he was 11. He just prefers to use his clothing for a carpet in his room.
I washed the last 2 loads of clothes in his hampers yesterday. I had insisted that he do what had to be washed for camp and that I was not going to buy him new pants until he had everything washed and put away. He had done most of it. There was still a load of the pants and one load of lights to be done. We took a large bag of clothes that no longer fit to Goodwill on the way out of town.
And, aside from the pants he is wearing at camp, he has 2 pairs of khakis and 2 pairs of black pants. I don't need to buy him more. I wasn't really shocked to learn this.
I straightened out the clothes in his cupboard, too. He has been stuffing things in there without any concern for neatness for the year since I last did it while was at camp. I fished out a set of clean sheets that were folded but put in the linen press he uses for clothes storage instead of the linen closet. It may shock him to find out how much space it gives him to get the sheets out of the way.
I found some clothes that I think were the reason he was so protective of that linen press just prior to going to camp.
He has been claiming to be a transvestite and sometimes wears t-shirts he got from girl friends. And he found a Bozo-the-hooker dress at some vintage shop that he keeps around. But I have never seen him actually wear it out of the house.
I've decided that the transvestitism is not real, though. Just trying to push a button for whatever adolescent reason. If it was really about the clothes, he would take better care of them. He's not really hiding them, because I mostly know he has them, though there was one top I'd never seen before. But he is universally abusive to his clothing. All of it is carpet.
My son has known how to do his own laundry since he was 11. He just prefers to use his clothing for a carpet in his room.
I washed the last 2 loads of clothes in his hampers yesterday. I had insisted that he do what had to be washed for camp and that I was not going to buy him new pants until he had everything washed and put away. He had done most of it. There was still a load of the pants and one load of lights to be done. We took a large bag of clothes that no longer fit to Goodwill on the way out of town.
And, aside from the pants he is wearing at camp, he has 2 pairs of khakis and 2 pairs of black pants. I don't need to buy him more. I wasn't really shocked to learn this.
I straightened out the clothes in his cupboard, too. He has been stuffing things in there without any concern for neatness for the year since I last did it while was at camp. I fished out a set of clean sheets that were folded but put in the linen press he uses for clothes storage instead of the linen closet. It may shock him to find out how much space it gives him to get the sheets out of the way.
I found some clothes that I think were the reason he was so protective of that linen press just prior to going to camp.
He has been claiming to be a transvestite and sometimes wears t-shirts he got from girl friends. And he found a Bozo-the-hooker dress at some vintage shop that he keeps around. But I have never seen him actually wear it out of the house.
I've decided that the transvestitism is not real, though. Just trying to push a button for whatever adolescent reason. If it was really about the clothes, he would take better care of them. He's not really hiding them, because I mostly know he has them, though there was one top I'd never seen before. But he is universally abusive to his clothing. All of it is carpet.