Why can't kids be neat? All three of my girls are driving me crazy! Meghan keeps her room very clean or a disaster. She must try on everything in her closet every morning! No in between, one extreme or the other.
Katie is risking a bug infestation with her room (she eats in there)(Which she isn't suppose to do). I took her clothes out of the dryer this morning and watched her take the whole handful and cram in a drawer. Now every stitch of clothing she owns is on her bed. Guess who will now have to help her get it all put away, yep me.
Lauren keeps parts of her room clean. But clothes she stuffs in the corner between her bed and nightstand. Then she ask me to iron them!
Does anyone out there have any tips to either get them to clean their rooms, consistently or for me to become immune from the disaster?
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I wished that I had some tips for you. If you get any good tips...call me.;)
We keep teasing our youngest (13 years old) that we hope he loves his "new" family. You know, the new family that we are sending him to live with.;)
Keep me posted!
God Bless,
Amy:)
Let me know if you figure it out.
My two boys are total opposites. Josh will put everything neatly where it belongs. Ask Caleb to put something away and he will just toss it close to where it should go.
Hi Jenny, How are you? Besides the messy rooms of course. I don't have any sure fire advice either. However, I am going to be implementing a new rule at my house in which my boys have to spend 10 minutes every day cleaning up their rooms, even if they don't think it is dirty. But the first thing you should do (if you haven't already) is ask the lord to give you a creative idea that will work for your family. Then rest in Him as He works! Daveda
I have a teenage son and a teenage daughter. They are both messy, but it's a different kind of messy. Boy messy is just dirty clothes and unmade bed, which doesn't take long to straighten up. He dresses and sleeps in his room and thats it.
Stephanie on the other hand lives in her room. She plays her guitar there, does homework, does her artwork, and tries on everything in her cupboard daily. Because today it might look different to how it looked yesterday? I've tried doing it for her, which works for a while because she does actually quite like being able to find stuff, threatening her, but I'm ashamed to admit that the only thing that really works is good old fashioned bribery (erm, sorry, "encouragement"). If she wants to go out, she has to clean her room, wants new clothes, put the old ones away first. It's really the only thing I've had success with and it's far from perfect unless you want to buy them stuff all the time. So, she has a tidy room once a month or so.
When all else fails I just shut the door.
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