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Clean up the room!
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18 year old DS whining the other day while I am on the bucket with DD, who is 13 and the baby: "You never did this with me! Caleb and I never got this much attention." Caleb is the other son who is 19 and playing college football. My reply: "Yeah, well neither one of you two threw a softball as hard as she does, a-hole." (Coached both of the boys for two years and coached Pop Warner for 10 years total.)
After she hit 13 how clean her room was stopped being an issue for me. No it didn't get
cleaned up. I could never understand how a kid who was so in control of every aspect of life
Could live in such a mess of a room. Finally I decided that maybe she allows this one area of disorder in her life so she
Can Be so ordered in every other aspect. I thought about it and decided, of all the things that she
Could possibly do wrong, the least objectionable is a messy room. So i stopped bugging her about it.
cleaned up. I could never understand how a kid who was so in control of every aspect of life
Could live in such a mess of a room. Finally I decided that maybe she allows this one area of disorder in her life so she
Can Be so ordered in every other aspect. I thought about it and decided, of all the things that she
Could possibly do wrong, the least objectionable is a messy room. So i stopped bugging her about it.
I would put this in the "pick the battles worth winning" category.
For some reason my DD decided that her room has to clean last year after 13+ years of living in a total mess.
It is now like a 'clean room'. It is disturbingly clean and organized. Not sure where she gets it from or what brought it on - our house can be best described as looking like people live there.
It is now like a 'clean room'. It is disturbingly clean and organized. Not sure where she gets it from or what brought it on - our house can be best described as looking like people live there.
In other words a TB family house. It may not be spic-n-span but you definitely know EXACTLY where every necessary piece of softball equipment such as DD's bat bag, ball buckets, bownet, hitting tee and the new lineup cards amongst the 3 foot pile of unopened mail stacked on the kitchen counter are located
In other words a TB family house. It may not be spic-n-span but you definitely know EXACTLY where every necessary piece of softball equipment such as DD's bat bag, ball buckets, bownet, hitting tee and the new lineup cards amongst the 3 foot pile of unopened mail stacked on the kitchen counter are located
Something like that except add in all the ice hockey equipment my son needs for travel hockey.
yep.....exactly. DD is 16 almost 17. Some times I walk down the hall and look into her bedroom, shake my head, and close the door. I always know when she gets in a bad mood, or something is bothering her. She will clean the hell outta that room lol. The next week it is back to a disaster.
After raising 3 girls, my thoughts:
All gray matter is destroyed when a girl turns 13YOA. It will slowly grow back through high school. A rapid growth spurt of gray matter growth occurs in college when she walks into her dorm room after about 2 weeks and sees the dirty clothes on the floor, exactly where she left them. She then observes the dirty clothes for several more weeks, noting that they don't seem to move. Over a period of months, she learns that the clothes don't magically get picked up, washed, and folded.
All gray matter is destroyed when a girl turns 13YOA. It will slowly grow back through high school. A rapid growth spurt of gray matter growth occurs in college when she walks into her dorm room after about 2 weeks and sees the dirty clothes on the floor, exactly where she left them. She then observes the dirty clothes for several more weeks, noting that they don't seem to move. Over a period of months, she learns that the clothes don't magically get picked up, washed, and folded.
My wife only cleaned the clothes that were in the hamper. If they are on the floor, thats your problem. By the time my dd and ds were about 15 they were doing their own laundry. My son actually had to teach several of this college friends how to use the washer and dryer in the dorm.
