A few days ago I posted about the ironing situation with DH & SS. I want to thank everyone who commented especially Echo who was really straight talking and gave me some good advice.Quite often when you are in a situation you don't always see the most obvious solution and need an outside person to set you straight.

I spoke to DH a day later and told him that SS learning to iron is a life skill so the sooner he learns it the better.The next thing will be to teach him to operate the washing machine,SS lives in this house too (50% of the time) so he needs to have some chores too. Again I mentioned how it is for SS benefit if he learns to do his own laundry now and take responsibility for his own things. DH said yes he agrees (after a bit of pouting) but probably because it dawned on him if I don't do the laundry & Prince Fragile doesn't do it then he will have to do it.

Interestingly last night we all went out for a meal with MIL and before we went out SS had a shower and put in a clean change of clothes.When we got home SS wanted to put the same clothes in the wash (he only sat in the restaraunt in them for 2 hours) and DH told him off!This would have never happened before.

So thank-you again Echo (& others) for telling it to me straight,and helping me stand up to DH & SS.