I cleaned my sons' room this morning

Dymphna

Dymphna

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Over the weekend, Daddy ordered them to clean their room. It took them from just after breakfast until shortly before dinner before Daddy declare the room acceptable. Daddy is pickier than I am. USUALLY, he nitpicks over stuff and these little episodes with the room cleaning make me crazy.

"Daddy is it good enough?"
"No, clean some more."

An hour later:
"Daddy is it good enough?"
"No, clean some more."

By the time they are done, I wanna kill Daddy and both boys. But as of Sunday early evening, it had passed Daddy inspection.

Well, number one son couldn't find his shoes on Monday when it was time to go to school. So, I went in his closet to find an old pair. I could barely get into the closet for all the crap blocking the door, and couldn't find the shoes for all the crap INSIDE the closet. I'm thinking that Daddy got fed up and let them slide about that one corner of the room. Finally found a pair of shoes, a little beat up and a full size too small. Boy wore them Monday and Tuesday.

Well today, number 2 son, all on his own puts on a polo shirt. :confused: this is almost like formal dress for him....something's up....I look in his backpack and discover a flyer... Today is PICTURE DAY. Last I saw of Number One, he was wearing a raggedy, barely suitable for school t-shirt. So, I go into the room to tell him to change his clothes and to find his flyer/payment envelope for the pictures.

The floor was a foot deep in crap.

I got a 55 gallon trash bag, filled it up and got another one. When I filled that one up, I was too tired to get a third, even though I probably could have half filled that one....meanwhile the two boys are underfoot, trying to save as much stuff as possible from the bags.

It took me 10 minutes.

Among the finds...Number one's shoes. Several pieces of homework that had never been turned in and two Christmas gift bags, one with a dress shirt in it (ok, you kinda expect that) and the other with a polo shirt, (guess what number one ended up wearing for school pictures) a brand new pair of jeans and an unopened Nintendo DS game that number one had requested for Christmas but never bothered to look past the clothes his grandmother gave him to see that he got.

The clothes went in the drawer, the game when in the bag.
 
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Tina2001aniT

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Dymphna said:
Over the weekend, Daddy ordered them to clean their room. It took them from just after breakfast until shortly before dinner before Daddy declare the room acceptable. Daddy is pickier than I am. USUALLY, he nitpicks over stuff and these little episodes with the room cleaning make me crazy.

"Daddy is it good enough?"
"No, clean some more."

An hour later:
"Daddy is it good enough?"
"No, clean some more."

By the time they are done, I wanna kill Daddy and both boys. But as of Sunday early evening, it had passed Daddy inspection.

Well, number one son couldn't find his shoes on Monday when it was time to go to school. So, I went in his closet to find an old pair. I could barely get into the closet for all the crap blocking the door, and couldn't find the shoes for all the crap INSIDE the closet. I'm thinking that Daddy got fed up and let them slide about that one corner of the room. Finally found a pair of shoes, a little beat up and a full size too small. Boy wore them Monday and Tuesday.

Well today, number 2 son, all on his own puts on a polo shirt. :confused: this is almost like formal dress for him....something's up....I look in his backpack and discover a flyer... Today is PICTURE DAY. Last I saw of Number One, he was wearing a raggedy, barely suitable for school t-shirt. So, I go into the room to tell him to change his clothes and to find his flyer/payment envelope for the pictures.

The floor was a foot deep in crap.

I got a 55 gallon trash bag, filled it up and got another one. When I filled that one up, I was too tired to get a third, even though I probably could have half filled that one....meanwhile the two boys are underfoot, trying to save as much stuff as possible from the bags.

It took me 10 minutes.

Among the finds...Number one's shoes. Several pieces of homework that had never been turned in and two Christmas gift bags, one with a dress shirt in it (ok, you kinda expect that) and the other with a polo shirt, (guess what number one ended up wearing for school pictures) a brand new pair of jeans and an unopened Nintendo DS game that number one had requested for Christmas but never bothered to look past the clothes his grandmother gave him to see that he got.

The clothes went in the drawer, the game when in the bag.
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:lol: What happens to the bags of stuff now?

I did the same to kiddo's closet about a month ago, I was sooo tired of finding a disaster in there that I filled two trash bags. The bags are in a corner of the basement.
 
Homer J

Homer J

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How old are the boys?

Kids under a certain age need more guidance than just "clean your room". Sometimes specific instructions are needed. Instead of just saying that it's not clean enough, perhaps your husband should tell them what needs attention. Might even be helpful to write out instructions for them to follow. I know it seems like simple common sense to us but to a kid it can be very confusing.

JMHO
 
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Mousebaby

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LordStanley said:
So it took 3 days for your kids room to be a wreck again?
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My kids can clean their rooms (if you want to call it clean) and by the next morning it looks like they have done nothing!


I just did the same thing to all 3 kids rooms just before Christmas with the giant garbage bags and I swear it's all back!!! What does this stuff breed when you turn off the lights??? This is freakin rediculous! :lmao:
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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Tina2001aniT said:
:lol: What happens to the bags of stuff now?

I did the same to kiddo's closet about a month ago, I was sooo tired of finding a disaster in there that I filled two trash bags. The bags are in a corner of the basement.
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At the moment, the bags are in the room. I gave them the 10-15 minutes before they had to go to school to remove whatever they wanted on the condition that it was put in it's proper place. (They went DIVING for that DS game :lol:)

I will give them another opportunity to redeem items from the bags, mostly because I gave them no warning of what I was about to do.

I used to do this on a smaller scale all the time when they (and the daycare kids) would trash my living room. The rule then was if it ended up back on the floor after being removed from the bag, the item was gone for good. Eventually the bags will go in the basement, depending on if they start putting things away or not.
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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Homer J said:
How old are the boys?

Kids under a certain age need more guidance than just "clean your room". Sometimes specific instructions are needed. Instead of just saying that it's not clean enough, perhaps your husband should tell them what needs attention. Might even be helpful to write out instructions for them to follow. I know it seems like simple common sense to us but to a kid it can be very confusing.

JMHO
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They are 7 & 9. Yes, they need more instruction, which is what makes me so crazy about those cleaning sessions...they don't have any idea where to begin, but to a certain extent, neither do we adults because it is just so overwhelming...

The best thing for them is to have the novel experience of having a clean floor. Have all the junk in one place, like a bag so they don't have to think it through...just pull something out of the bag and find it a place. Plus all the little stuff sifts to the bottom and they have to deal with the big items first.
 
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sux2b44

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Sounds like our son - his room is always a mess. He sleeps on top of his comforter with his "treasures." Since he is the only child, he is quite spoiled. He is also one of those kids that explodes in every room he is in. Little pieces of what he was doing clutters the room. I collect his things and put them in a basket and he is not to touch them until Saturday. If he does not clean out the basket by noon - everything is tossed in the trash.
 
LordStanley

LordStanley

I know nothing
We also go through the same with our son.

Every couple of months, especially around his birthday and Christmas (3 weeks apart) we take all his old stuff that he hasnt touched in a while, bag it up and donate it to Vintage Values. Or his Daycare
 
SamSpade

SamSpade

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My dad used to motivate me to clean my room by saying "if you don't - *I* will clean it" and that carried the meaning of, I'm gonna throw stuff out you'll want to keep.

I wonder what would have happened if I'd called him on it?
 
SoMDGirl42

SoMDGirl42

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I would wait until the kids went to school. Then I would go through with the dark green lawn bags and clean out. Deal was, when the got home if they could name something in the bag that I was giving away, I would remove it from the bag and give it back. After 30 minutes of searching their newly cleaned and organized rooms, they could never name ONE thing I had thrown away. Everyone was happy, and they never knew anything that was given away.
 
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