One Thing You Should Not Pay Someone To Do For Your Child

Teach your kids how to sort, separate and put their dirty clothes in the wash now.

Show your children how to treat stains, measure detergent and explain the importance of removing lint from the dryer vent after every cycle.

Don’t turn your son’s sports socks right side out, since you aren’t the one who took them off like that.

Parents should teach their kids how to do their own laundry instead of paying someone to handle the task for them.

Tide University Laundry adds to our entitlement epidemic and families are signing their young adults up for services on over 18 different college campuses. Parents are paying upward of $800 each year to have their kid’s dirty clothes sorted, washed, folded and delivered back to them in a pretty package.

Young adults are perfectly capable of washing, drying and folding their own underwear and sheets, so why are parents paying for these services to be done for them?

Tide promotes their service as a necessity for busy students and parents are mistakingly falling for their marketing.

Oh yes, little Johnny deserves more time to study and be with his friends, that good boy. College is not the time to be doing laundry.

Wrong.

Because when you’ve paid for big Johnny’s dirty socks to be turned inside out by an actual hard working college student, he’s going to have a difficult time wrapping his head around the fact that laundry is, unfortunately, a never-ending reality in life. You have the privilege of owning and wearing clothes then you’re going to also get the privilege of having to wash them. Laundry is only one of the regular bummers of adulthood. If you want to help them out, then give them some money to help pay for the laundry machines, but make sure that’s the only thing you’re paying for. They don’t even need to have loose change now though since they can use an app like ShinePay at most laundromats. If they don’t have this app then you need to make sure that they get it! It’ll help make their life a lot easier when it comes to doing laundry (but at least they’ll be doing laundry themselves)!

Proctor and Gamble is just another corporation to prey on the loving, over-involved parent. Companies are finding success in offering services that ultimately chip away at not only parents’ bank accounts but the overall health of young adults today.

Parents, we already pay for expensive Apple products, data plans, and material items that our kids don’t need.

We sign up for Amazon Prime so none of us have to wait more than two days for our desires.

Moms and Dads attach a credit card to Apps so their children can order dinners to be delivered to them from their favorite restaurants before hailing rides from a stranger off of Uber or Lyft.

Now parents are willing to pay people to wash their kid’s dirty laundry when they head to college.

We must stop the madness and start expecting more from our capable kids.

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My children will be welcome to fork out the $800 from their own bank account if laundry is too much for them to handle when they get to college. But this is a bill I won’t be footing and you shouldn’t be either.

We can’t teach our children and young adults that they are too precious to deal with their own dirty clothes. Back in the day, our parents weren’t even willing to pay for our schooling. Now we have a generation signing up to pay strangers to wash and fold Johnny’s underwear so he can have more leisure time for himself.

On social media Tide University Laundry uses the hashtag #LifeNotLaundry. They want to make you believe that college students do not have the time nor energy to spare for sorting, washing and drying their own threads.

It only takes about 10 seconds to activate our bags, so you can get back to what’s most important to you…. https://t.co/Kv2i2bbMTt

— Tide Univ. Laundry (@ULaundry) July 1, 2017

With our laundry service, you’ll have more time to invest in your friends!
(Just look at these friends laughing… https://t.co/DQSwtcrACl

— Tide Univ. Laundry (@ULaundry) June 22, 2017

And I directly quote from the University Laundry website, “While you get valuable hours to put back in campus life or other causes, we handle your dreaded chore of laundry. From start to finish – we do it all – the sorting, the washing, the drying, the retail-style folding, the packaging, and the delivery. Anything you think is dirty enough to put in a laundry machine, bring it to us – we’ll give it back clean and folded.”

Isn’t that just wonderful of Proctor and Gamble?

Unfortunately, kids #LifeIsLaundry and parents it’s up to us to teach them this reality. While University Laundry may sound like a helpful service, it is in all actuality quite a disservice.

Save your money and instead teach your kids how to do their own laundry now so that they will be capable of managing the task when they move out of your house.

Most likely your college student will forget all the laundry tips you taught them while they were under your wing.

They will instead rush and throw all of their darks, whites, and towels in the wash together. There will be no stain remover or fabric softener involved in the process. Your young adult will learn when they’ve ruined a wool sweater or turned their socks pink, that just maybe they need to put a little more effort in the next time around.

And that’s not a lesson I’m willing to let Proctor and Gamble steal away from my children.