Socks Everywhere

Calfgrit8 leaves his socks everywhere around the house. When he comes in from school or playing, he whips his socks off and drops them where ever he happens to be at that moment. Then when it’s time to go outside again, he runs upstairs to get another pair of socks. By the end of the day, there have been as many as half a dozen extra socks lying about the downstairs area.

We usually make him go back downstairs and round them all up himself, but sometimes Wifegrit and/or I will collect them and put them at the bottom of the stairs for him to take up when he goes up for his bath at the end of the day. And every single time, he will run up the stairs, often stepping on the socks, without picking them up. And then we have to tell him to go back down again and pick them up. He sighs and whines about having to go back down and then come back up.

That picture above — that’s one day of socks for him. Some of them might have been worn for only an hour before being removed and dropped. I found them scattered about after bedtime, so I just tossed them all together on the bench. I don’t know how he doesn’t run out of socks every couple of days. There must be a few dozen socks in his drawer — fortunately for him, with small feet he can have that many stuffed into one drawer.

Bullgrit