Some Questions and Answers

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

 

Dear Friends,

Your questions and emails inspire me every day. Some of your questions become topics for these articles or essays as Marla calls them.

This week I have had questions about young adult children, and I have had questions about how to redistribute daily missions when a child has a camp or activity that takes them away from home for one day or several days. I have had questions about laundry systems.

Let’s talk about these today. If one person has asked, I am sure there are others of you who wanted to ask.

What kind of responsibilities to you give to young adult children who live at home and work full time?

For my young adult children with jobs, I ask that they keep their room reasonably picked up, do their laundry, and swish and swipe their bathroom.

If they work more than 40 hours per week, I will offer to wash their clothes if they sort them for me. They do not help with cooking or House Blessings. If they eat with us, they do help with kitchen clean up. That is a family activity at the end of the meal. Everyone pitches in to help.

How do you deal with things not getting done if someone is away from home for a few days or a week?

When my children have camp or an overnight stay away from home, I just redistribute the missions and home blessings to whoever is home. We go with the philosophy that caring for our home is a team approach. The team is whoever is at home at the time. If it is just me, then I do the missions and home blessing.

Basically, I am the mom, and the buck stops with me in terms of blessing my home.

How do you handle your laundry for a large family?

Each bedroom in our home has a dirty clothes basket. I have three baskets in my room.

One for dark clothes, white clothes, and towels. We sort into the bins as we take a shower or bath. Anyone can put whites in my white bin. We only have one load of whites per week. Then each person uses their laundry basket for dark clothes. Each person has a day of the week to do his or her laundry.

We have three loads a day that are washed, dried, and folded. I try not to do laundry on Sunday unless it is necessary due to illness.
The main thing with laundry is to do it consistently and do all of the steps. You need to get it put away the same day to keep it from building up into mountains of clean laundry.

Please feel free to send your questions! I love hearing from you.

I am wrapping this up quickly because the power has gone off twice while writing this. I want to get it finished while it is back on. A summer storm passed through here earlier today, and I need to get off the computer.

Today’s Zone Mission is to take a bubble bath and get ready for date night.

Your Home Blessing for today is to empty the trash, sweep, and mop.

My menu plan for Friday is chicken and a salad.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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