Consider yourself warned!
A guide for those who think they want children.
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I just went into my son’s bedroom to get my laptop. What I saw in there just blew my mind away. It looked like a tornado had blown through that bedroom. Now, I know that my son is not the neatest kid on this earth, but damn! Can a brother clean up his room every now and again without me having to tell him?
I just don’t understand how he can live in that mess. After he finally cleans his room, I inspect it. He gets so mad at me! Its actually funny (at least it is to me, maybe not to him). I go around the room and point out everything that he missed. What gets me is that its sooooo obvious that I’m going to say something. Does he really think that I’m not going to see that all the drawers in the dresser are open with the clothes hanging out? Really? It’s not enough to put the clothes in the dresser, you have to put them in there neatly and actually close the drawers. Does he think that I’m not going to see the clothes on the floor piled up in the corner? Really? Are those clothes clean or dirty? If they’re clean, why are they not in the drawers? Oh, because there’s no room for them? Well, if they’re dirty, why are they not in the hamper? Oh, because there are clean clothes in there? Ok, but why are the clean clothes in the hamper and not in the drawers? They don’t fit? Gee, I wonder why? And the cycle repeats itself with the clothes on the chair, under the bed, on the desk, etc. And, I guess he thinks that I’m not going to see the sneakers in the middle of the room, or the plates and cups that somehow didn’t make it downstairs either. I was complaining to a co-worker about my son’s messy room one day. He suggested that I explain to my son that one day he would have his own apartment and that he will be bringing girls home. He told me to tell him that girls aren’t impressed with men who have messy apartments, and that some girls may not come back. It actually worked ... for a minute. But when he cleaned his room, I was impressed with how clean and neat it was. I even complimented him. Oooooo, I just knew that this was the start of something good. No more nagging! No more over the top inspections! No more messy rooms! Yeah! It only lasted that one day. Then, everything went back to normal. I just don’t get it. Dude, if you take the time and clean up your room properly, you won’t have to listen to my nagging. Unfortunately, he doesn’t read my blog., so he won’t get this message. His sister is not that much better. If my son is an 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst, she’s about a 6. This girl has clothes piled up in the corner, garbage piled up in the garbage pail, and the bed is rarely made up on the weekdays. Her floor is begging to be swept. But, the difference between the two of them is that when I tell my daughter to clean her room, she will take the time and do it well. Not my son. I feel sorry for my future daughter-in-law. Hopefully, he will get it together. So, if you think you’re going to have a neat house when you have kids, forget about it, and ... Consider Yourself Warned! For you parents out there, how do you get your teenagers to clean their rooms on a regular basis, and to clean it well?
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SassyGirlTye lives with her two wonderful teenagers in Brooklyn, New York. No matter what she says in her posts, she truly loves her children with all her heart.
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