Cries the twelve and a half year old son.

Imagine his face when I threw him the sewing kit. Life Lesson #4 dear son. Learn to fix your own strides. He is now sitting on the sofa quite chuffed with himself sewing the crotch of his trousers back together.

:hihi:

Well gotta teach 'em young, I don't want to let a useless son loose on the female population when he grows up. :D

Well done Fox! Good for him to learn early. I remember having to sew buttons and hems for school, and polishing shoes every day with real polish!

Quick get him signed up to the knitting group on here :)

Seriously - I applaud you - many would have just thrown out the trousers or done it for him. This way he learns a skill - I never forgot it then I learnt :)

Well mission accomplished and he appears to have done a good job. He's just disappeared to put his school uniform in the wash for tomorrow :thumbsup:

* am I mean? :huh:

Ooooh no :) not mean at all!

We have tried ironing training, but he's a lefty so it didn't go well :hihi: maybe in a couple of months. ;)

So did he mend and then wash them himself? Wow, he's way more advanced than my husband...

Great work, Fox!

So did he mend and then wash them himself? Wow, he's way more advanced than my husband...

:nod: He certainly did. I feel it is my duty to get him trained early in order that he doesn't inflict housework incompetencies on a future partner ;)

Good on you Fox and on laddo. Oddly enough I was looking at an old diary last night from when I was 12 - it mentions needlework class at school and how much I enjoyed it! I made a stuffed dog and a rather brillant felted glove puppet.

Good on you. My 32 yr old husband learned last week that you dont put dark clothes and white clothes in the wash together :roll: I could strangle his mother that he has absolutely no idea how to look after himself. He doesnt even know what to do if he has a headache. If i have a boy (and we think it is a boy in my belly at the mo :) ) then i am going to teach him some sensible skills (with care not to confuse his sexuality of course)!

I am going to teach him some sensible skills (with care not to confuse his sexuality of course)!

:huh: how would you do that? Confuse his sexuality I mean

what were life lessons 1-3, eh foxy?

:nod: He certainly did. I feel it is my duty to get him trained early in order that he doesn't inflict housework incompetencies on a future partner ;)

I wish my mother in law had thought of that :mad:

what were life lessons 1-3, eh foxy?

Lesson number one - His bedroom is his responsibility - he strips his own bed, and cleans his room.

Lesson number two- leaving the bathroom in the way he found it. Which includes cleaning it (on occasion)

Lesson number three - Doing his share of dishes. I had to do it when I was a kid, and no amount of not doing them properly in the hope I would tell him not to bother works - practice makes perfect :hihi:

*Notes all down for future reference for kids including name so that they can be referred to her should they complain in any way* :) :thumbsup:

Its quite straight forward Torin. I sat him down and explained everything I am expected/have to do in the house.

Cooking, Cleaning, Shopping, Mending, Nursing, Loaning and so on.

Plus I have to work. In the great scheme of things its hardly fair for me to be running around after him when he is quite capable of doing his bit to make life easier for us all (me included as a knackered grumpy mum is not a nice one).

Similarly DS#2 has begun his training with lessons 1 and 2 and he will be 9 in July :)

Good for you - you are now officially my parenting god of the week :)