Comments on: How to Get My Kids to Clean Their Rooms

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:28:37 +0000

In reply to Havok. My kids certainly don't have all their stuff in their rooms. Ifind shoes in the playroom all the time. GGrrr....

By: Havok

Havok — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:25:37 +0000

In reply to Hilary. All my stuff was supposed to be kept in my room. If I couldn't find something, nobody else in the house was going to know where it is - I was on my own to find it! One time I lost my house key (right after I first got one, of course), and asked my mom to help after I did a frantic search, only to find it before she got across the house help, ha. I was responsible for all my stuff and where it went, and that was just how it was.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:21:35 +0000

In reply to Havok. I think it would be smart to stop hearing about when they lost stuff (which is ALL. tHE. TIME). What would your mom do when that happened?!

By: Havok

Havok — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:49:59 +0000

I remember the times of having mom come help me clean my room – and only when it was really really bad. But, it was nice, because she wouldn’t let me get distracted with all the stuff I had lost, ha!
However, for the most part, I was on my own with it. She wouldn’t really “check” that I had cleaned, but I was also responsible for finding my stuff (never did I get away with “Mom, where did I put…”).
One thing that was always fun, though, was rearranging the furniture. If I wanted to move my bed to the other wall, I had to clean my room (and move the bed, ha, but I had lineouem floors, so it was easy).