What to do when kids won't keep their rooms clean - Page 2

meghannsnanny · 10-10-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by aliadam

Well, see I just don't worry about those things. My kids rooms are almost always messes. I make them clean them periodically and I tell them they can't have friends up to their rooms if they're a mess, but a thing or two flung on the closet floor or crammed under a bed...that wouldn't even register on my radar.

I wish I could be more like you.. I just yell and yell about the rooms--I know it gets me nowhere. DSD who is 6 will just stuffit all in drawers , under the bed, in the closet, Paper, clothes, shoes crayons, everything wadded together but if you walk in her room it looks clean. Now dd doesn't try to hide anything she just tosses it all in the open for all to see

, my Dad, and my sister does it now only she just bags hers up and hides it for a while, he would burn anything that was on the floor or out where it don't belong--that is a bit too extreme for me!

motherofall6 · 10-13-2007, 10:21 PM

my 2 dss room is always a pig pen, i have helped them clean & declutter , then the next day it looks like a tornado came through there room

, we have a dry erase board in kitchen that i list the kids chors on well guess what everday i write: boys clean your room!! and when they get home from school and say " can we play the playstation?" im like nope not till the room is clean. we go through this at least 4-5 days per week, they r 12 & 14

treehugger · 10-13-2007, 11:49 PM

My boys room is clean because I don't allow anything in it. There are two beds and three dressers, a hamper, that's it. If the cloths do land on the floor they just run threw before bed and drop them in the hamper.

It's the downstairs where their toys live that is an issue here. It's better than it used to be because I got rid of a ton of them. But because they play right where we live, they have to pick it up. I just nag a bit, then get mad and set the timer. When it goes off, I make them leave the room and pick up the toys and they don't get them back until I say. But, what really works best is the threat of early bed time if they don't get moving when I say too.

Me&My2girls · 10-14-2007, 11:16 AM

We have had that same problem...last summer we could never get our girls to clean! SO, we started packing up the toys that weren't cleaned up by the girls and putting them in the garage. Lets just say they were down to their "least favorite toys" and were starting to get mad, because all of their barbies and ponys were packed away. They learned their lesson with in about 2 months and we don't have many clean up problems any more.

penelope · 10-15-2007, 08:24 AM

OK, so is it just the closet, and under the bed that stuff is crammed in? I would be so happy with that. If you can't live with that, bag it all up and tell her she can have it back when she keeps it more tidy.
Most kids rooms are never going to be spotless. Pick the things about the room that are most important to you, and try to have her work on them. Like, a made bed every day. And all the clothes go in the hamper.