Lol. Ouch, I bet that hurts some of those single mommies. They try SO hard.
38 years ago this month, my wife returned to work full time after a 12 year absence as a full time Mother.
She spent over two weeks showing our children ages 12-10 how to wash, dry and hang up their clothes. How to help prep for dinner like setting the table, preparing a simple salad and washing veggies and getting the meat out of the refrig for dinner which she or I would prepare when we got home.
The kids school started after Labor day, and two events became learning lessons for them.
#1. They learned quickly that if they didn’t do their prep jobs for dinner, they got to eat cereal or pbj. We would do a quick fix for our dinner or bring it home for us. After a couple of evenings of that, they did their dinner prep jobs.
#2. When school started, my wife didn’t nag them about doing their laundry. The first Monday after the first week of school, they realized they had no clean clothes. When they whined about having to wear dirty clothes to school. My wife informed them to do their laundry after school that day or they would have dirty clothes to wear the next day. Besides the laundry chores, if they didn’t prep the dinner, they knew what they got for dinner.
They never had dirty clothes to wear again to school, as they learned about life.
They learned that often the best way to problem solve was to prevent the problem from happening.