Thursday, January 13, 2011
When I say clean, I really mean clean
We are having some cleaning issues in this house. The kids seem to think that when I tell them to clean their rooms, or a specific part of their room, I don't actually mean it. Bad news! I really do! Yesterday I informed JR that he was to clean his part of the closet while I was going through HT's toys to determine what had been outgrown and could be given away to make room for the new Christmas gifts. I looked in the closet later, and found that things had been just stacked slightly neater...not cleaned, and barely even defined as "picked up". He lost some privileges, and was pretty upset the rest of the day. Now, I would think that if I had gotten in loads of trouble, I would make sure I had done the job correctly. Nope, checked again after he "cleaned" the second time, and this time he literally took trash, stuffed it into bags, and stuffed it back into the corners of his closet. I am baffled how this is any easier than stuffing it into bags and then throwing away the bag, and I'm also amazed that he seems to think I'm an idiot. HT has also started the "hide it and maybe no one will notice I didn't put it away" plan, and JC has been known to use it in the past. JR is not going to be pleased with life when he gets home today and learns his "fate" for the next 24 hours! He'll have plenty, plenty of time to get that closet cleaned.
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