This post was written by Guest Blogger Barbara Winters, host of Journeys to Motherhood.

When I think back to Motherhood Lessons from my childhood, I remember some of the things my mother would incorporate into her daily chores that would include me. These ‘things’ would actually transform a typically boring domestic activity into one of learning and fun…a game, if you will.

For example, the folding of laundry becomes a game of picking out all of the reds, all of the blues, all of the greens, etc… a way to get your laundry folded while teaching your child their colors. Also, when my mother washed clothes, she would help me wash some of my doll clothes. She would then hang her laundry on the ‘big girl line’ and had a lower line for me to hang my doll’s clothes, which was, of course, the ‘little girl line’. I have photographs of hanging laundry with my mother that are priceless! I look just like her “minnie me”!

Now that I have my own 2 1/2+ year old daughter, those charming memories are even more profound in my heart. Though I have done the ‘color game’ with Hailey Rose, we have yet to do the ‘laundry hanging duet’. This mama doesn’t hang laundry…just puts it in the dryer. (Maybe I should re-think my laundry rituals!)
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