One of the things I am aware of now is how our married children (5) deal with giving responsibilities to our grandchildren (9). It varies from family to family; It's just interesting to observe the differences.
One are the things my first wife did with our children was that she had each of them doing their own laundry by age eleven. When we separated and she moved out of our family house, I was left at home with responsibility for three children, ages 11 to 17, for the immediate future. One of the things that made it easier for me was that, by that point in time, each child was doing his or her own laundry.
This got me thinking about my laundry situation when I went away to Dartmouth. I had never done any laundry in my life. My mother brought me to Hanover, and left me with a shipping container, made out of sturdy fiberboard, with two web straps around the outside. About once a week, I would put my dirty underwear and socks into this, go down to the post office, and mail it home (Buffalo, NY). My mother would do the laundry, put it back into the container, and send it back to me. Then the cycle would repeat. Talk about being tied to your mother’s apron strings!
It’s hard to imagine this process being used today, I’m wondering if any classmates used this system when they came to Dartmouth, or was I the only one?
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This was put into my Dartmouth class newsletter, and I heard back from Fred Turner (Nichols, '54; Dartmouth, '58) that he had the same arrangement with his mother. At least I was not the only one.
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