My three-year-old son is obsessed with doing laundry. I mean OBSESSED!
On his first day of preschool, my three-and-a-half-year-old son, Leo, lay in his pyjamas, weeping violently.
?I don?t want to go to school,? he cried. ?I want to relax!?
I tried?uselessly?to comfort him, but he continued his protest. ?I can?t go!? he sobbed. Tears pooled in his eyes and, like a beleaguered 1950s housewife, he told me, ?I have so much laundry to do.?
Leo finally resigned himself to the injustice of the Fates (a.k.a. preschool) on the condition that he got to do a small load of laundry before we left the house.
Despite the speed wash, drop-off was traumatic for all. Leo wailed in a gulping, consumptive way, and when I left the building, the teachers took him to the window so he could see me off. He pressed his little hand against the pane?as if this was the last time we would ever see each other. About seven minutes later, I got a phone call from his teacher, who told me Leo had settled down and was doing great now?after a visit to the school?s washing machine.
?It?s a Whirlpool, Mummy,? Leo later reported. ?A front-loader! It?s nice. But I like our Miele better.?
It is not an overstatement to say that my son is obsessed with doing laundry. He doesn?t know how to put on his own shoes and can barely brush his own teeth, but he can have a conversation with you about the ?agitator? in a top-loading washing machine. (I didn?t know what an agitator was until last week?it?s the central spindle that twists back and forth to agitate and clean clothes, in case you di...
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