Seems like a lot of the music kids also like math and vice versa!
RondoInBFlat, your son may like these instructions - printed out in color, should fit recto/verso, laminated.
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-Your-Laundry-in-a-Dorm
or have him check this online (he has to click “next” for each step but the pics are realistic)
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Do-Your-Laundry-in-College/
Thanks! I believe though that sooner or later I will need to find him a laundry service if he is to go to summer camps, and most definitely for college. For college it will have to be room cleaning and laundry service! 
He needs to learn to do his laundry himself…and clean his own room. I bet he can do it.
My kids went to a music camp for four weeks, three summers in a row. That camp actually sent the laundry out to be done…there were no laundry facilities.
I honestly don’t remember what my kid did at BUTI. I know his Aspen housing had laundry facilities, and so did EMF. As a music major, he not only needed clean clothes, but they needed to be ironed…which my kid also knew how to do.
He doesn’t need to learn anything, Thumper. Thank you.
Well, he certainly sounds like a very special snowflake, Rondo. Learning to care for your clothing and to clean your room are important skills for everyone to have, especially once they get into college. Your thoughts on young men being self-sufficient is somewhat typical of some Indian Parents I know. I’m wondering if that might be your background, too?
He is very special to me Patsmom. I would rather decline though on stereotyping specific ethnic groups. I hope my thread doesn’t get shut down because of what you wrote above.
I’ve mentioned this on other threads, but my H’s mother was a maid to upper-income families. She vowed that if it was the last thing she did, she would teach her sons what they needed to know so that no woman would ever wait on them. So they were taught basic sewing, cooking, laundry, how to shop for food, etc. Good thing too, because both boys were single until they were in their 30’s. A few weeks ago I was so sick I couldn’t get off the couch. My H cooked, cleaned, shopped for and prepared healthy meals for him and our D and basically ran the house by himself. Had he just had “hired help” to do this when he was younger, we’d have been in deep trouble. I think it’s always a good thing that kids know how to do basic household tasks, even if they won’t HAVE to all the time.
^It’s very important he learns to do laundry because he’s afraid of it. The above instructions are VERY kid-friendly. Just show him - there’s no more logistics to it than to program a DVR :D. Once he sees he can do it with your help, and once without you, he won’t be petrified because of such a silly thing. You don’t need to actually make him do his laundry and college is still 5 years away so by that time, he’ll use the washing machine if he needs to without worry or embarassment.
Just so you know, there was a young man I worked with who assumed girls would do his laundry for him in college. I explained this would not be acceptable and would probably give him a bad reputation to boot. He was flabbergasted that such a task should be done by him (and didn’t really believe me when I said other male freshmen would do their own laundry). Upon my instruction, his mother (who also didn’t believe he’d use it at all) did make him a laminated “how to do laundry” double-sided instruction guide with pictures and he quickly learned how to handle it. When everybody struggles with laundry but manages to do it, a young man doesn’t want to be the only one who can’t.
We actually don’t do laundry in the house and haven’t done it in 20 years. The local dry cleaning lady comes and picks up laundry and dry cleaning and drops off the clean set. The maid puts it in the closet. So it is pretty transparent to us and of course to him. But I guess it will be an adventure to try to show him what to do. I was thinking more along the lines of he should know how to use a laundry service. They are common in all big cities and adjacent suburbs, so it’s like a part of life for us.
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I won’t close based upon that comment, but I will close if this does not get back onto topic quickly or if the degenerates into the pros/cons of kids going laundry.
I was fortunate to have a client who had been a professional chef. Nicest woman. I arranged for her to give son cooking lessons. Both were elated with their afternoon together.
I failed teaching son to be a good cleaner, though he tries. In grad school, he and roommates have had a cleaning person every two weeks. His landlady owns his building, and she requested they keep this person on. Win/win.
“Seems like a lot of the music kids also like math and vice versa!” - Absolutely.
The Music / STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) synergy we saw during DS’s college research and app process was a pleasant surprise. For example, MIT had a way for students to submit a music supplement … plus special instructions for the students that wanted to submit TWO music supplements. i .