She's 6. How much is she to know about cleaning, right? Well, I think she should be more aware than this!
I've said in a previous post that I have done the cleaning for her. And I had a major purging session with her to try and remedy that situation. We haven't purchased anything new. I'm not kidding. I haven't bought any new toys and I can only recall that I got her one craft airbrush thing from Costco for $9.99 a little over a month ago. That's it. I swear. Well, being that she's an artist, her room suffers for it greatly. Mostly her art table...but that's to be understood. I'm just so tired of cleaning it for her.
We asked her to clean. We asked her to put her shoes away. This is what she gave us:
I love her. I can only blame myself for not teaching her properly how to clean. I just don't know what to do. I don't know what to show her in order to have her stop leaving her stuff EVERYWHERE. She literally undresses in the bathroom afterschool. She leaves her clothes in a pile by the toilet. Gross. Help me. 
And then there is Ronan. He is not the neatest kid, but he's also 22 months old. He helped me pick up this mess in his room today. What's funny is that the majority of stuff in his room is Riley's. Now tell me, how did THAT happen?
3 comments:
I feel your pain. L's room looks exactly like Riley's. Exactly. And the clothes in the bathroom, yep, we have that here too!
When you figure out how to stop it, let me know!
Emily's room looks the same, but I have trained her to clean well. Show her where everything goes and how, than offer a reward... money, ice cream, or a smack on the ass. Just kidding about the last one. Ice cream always works for us. You could always threaten no Disney too! O.k., that is just mean, sorry!
You've gotta train her now before she's in Middle School and her homework is disappearing in her piles. I've been through it with Kali. You've got to spend a day with her and walk her through it. YOU don't do a thing, you just instruct her, supervise her. Trust me it's worth it! (also start teaching her to sort her laundry now...it'll save you!)
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