That Little Stinker

One thing that we try and teach our boys is responsibility and the importance of contributing to our family. One way that we do this is by giving them household chores. One of Evan's recent chores was to match up and put away clean socks.


Todd recently bought some new socks because he didn't have any in his drawer. This got him to wondering where they had all gone. He put himself in the frame of mind of Evan and thought of all of the possibilities that might have occurred to him if decided he didn't want to do his sock job. One of the first places that Todd looked was behind the dryer and low and behold, he came upon a huge pile of socks.


We asked Evan how all of the socks got there and he admitted that it was easier to throw them behind the dryer rather than match them up and put them away. It was an inventive solution, which I give him credit for. However, we then had to rewash all the socks and he had to eventually do the job correctly in the end. I can remember my dad telling me, "It is easier to do a good job the first time than to have to do it again." When it comes to parenting I guess it is true, what goes around, comes around!

Evan showing us where he threw all of the socks.

The treasure trove recovered from the back of the dryer.