I made the kids clean their room

Thank goodness, no! My son takes off his dirty clothes and they go straight in the dirty clothes basket. When I give him his clothes to hang up or put away they get put right where they are supposed to go. He knows that I will not tolerate him leaving them lying around.

Oh gosh. This sounds like our house. I got so tired of rounding up there cloths that I told them two years ago to take care of it themselves. Every week end I ask them to do there laundry and they do. Will as school was preparing to I asked them to clean there rooms and get ALL of their cloths washed. They each had about five loads of laundry to wash. I asked them why they had so much and they said it was because they only washed what they wanted to wash during the summer. And you are right. A lot of it is stuff that they have not worn but was just on the floor because they are to lazy to put it away themselves.

My kids do pretty well with keeping their rooms in order. My youngest son has about 500 pair of socks under his bed! I swear that is where all the socks in this house have gone. He offered to pay his little sister to clean under his bed, but she is smarter than that!

Every time I go searching for washing in my elder son's room I'm able to come up with a whole load! I nag and nag him to bring his dirty clothes away, but either he just puts them back on again or they sort of work their way back in with the clean stuff. He's not the only one in this house unable to find the washing machine though. My husband is just as bad.

I'm sitting here laughing, Kat. My daughter gets so upset at her two younger boys, 12 1/2 and 14 1/2. Their room is the smallest in the house and the most cluttered! They throw things on the floor and walk over clean clothes. Can't find anything they want. And when she says CLEAN your room!, they pick up everything and throw it in the laundry room - not always in the hampers (she keeps 3 in there). Doesn't matter whether it is dirty or clean and once it hits the floor in the laundry room, doesn't take too long for it to be dirty since they go in and out through that room to the back yard!

My daughter is only three, but likes to just change her clothes at random and throw the other clothes anywhere. However, my sister used to leave her clean clothes around on the floor too. She also used to put her clean clothes back in her closet, close to the hamper so they looked dirty if my parents checked her closet to make sure it was clean. She did that so she didn't have to put her clothes away. They would end up smelling and have to be rewashed anyway.

ouch! that's too tiresome to do. washing dirty clothes that aren't supposed to be dirty in the first place. anyway, i don't have kids yet. but when i was living in my mom's place, i organize my stuffs all the time. dirty clothes, go to my laundry basket and the clean ones are either hanged or folded and are placed inside my cabinets. i like to organize them so i can easily locate them when needed.

He might at a later stage but at the moment he is only 6 and all his washing goes into the hamper at the end of the day. If his hamper is full then he tosses his dirty clothes into the laundry room. He may on occasion leave his clothes on the floor but I always remind him to put it in the laundry.

No, I have trained them pretty well to take there dirty clothes to the laundry room. I have a seconed hamper that has whites on one side and colors on the other. I still do their own laundry even though I have shwon both of them how to do it, in case something is to happen I don't want them to be helpless like I was after my wife left. Luckily my mother was able to help me out in the begining, nw I am like a real life mr. mom. ANyways there is really no one around for them except me so I have to make sure I have them prepared for what life has in store for them and for the most part I think I have done a good job so far.

Wow sounds like you bit off a bit more than you wanted too. No my daughter doesn't do that. She knows the rules. Before bed she has to pick up her room. When her hamper gets full it goes down stairs. I do laundry 2 or three times a week. So it only gets out of hand once in a while. Good luck, hope it doesn't take you long.

my daughter and husband are like that. i'll tell them both to bring all their dirty clothes to the dining room so i can sort it before washing (i'm in an apartment building so i can't really do it in the laundry room). when sorting thru my daughters stuff i'll pull out at least half a dozen unworn, still folded stuff but because its in with the dirty stuff its got that dirty clothes stink so it has to be washed again. and then when i do a final look to make sure i got every last thing i'll go into the bedroom and come out with at least another half loads worth and this is after 3-4 times if i have all their dirty clothes lol.

Yes they do, I have three boys and they are all terrible for it if I do not keep on top of them. My eldest is definately the worst and at 16 thinks it is perfectly acceptable to bring down two weeks of washing and fill my basket up. Then, THEN he expects it all to be washed within 24 hours, HA as I said to him "you can go whistle". He will be in for a shock from the end of this month though, as all his money that I get for him is stopping with him leaving school, and as hes decided not to go to college and has not yet got a proper job then he will be having to do more to earn a roof over his head HA!!

My son never finds his dresser to put his clothes in. I end up rewashing them. I think some thing is living under his bed. Dirty socks I find under his bed or under the couch in the couch.lol

I got a simple solution, for the clothes that were on floor for a time, you can simpy use febreeze spray and bounce sheets for refreshing the clothes. that way you can save water for ur real laundry. maybe you can get rid of the old colthes and focus on the new clothes. Also my recommnedation is to make sure the clothes are put away in the house that way you can save your back and just enjoy the clean clothes for school.

I have made it a habbit to go through the house and clean everything on saturdays. I have done this for so long I can't rember when I didn't. Now my kids two of whom are teenagers now just get up on saturday and clean the way I do. I have found that my kids might say it is clean and them when I go in their rooms they say hold on mom let me finish the way you clean. There is a difference between mom clean and childs clean.

Raising kids is not so easy as we think. We must teach them good habits. If first time our kid makes a mistake & if we ignore, it will be his habit, it may be about dirty cloths or anything else.

Its never be the mistake but the lesson. The problem arises at that time when you make them work while they are studying and bg in other matter. I think its right to make them clean and other work because this makes them to be self dependent and intillegent . They get knowledge from that. One thing you have to remember is respect their rights.

im a teenager(im 15)i have to admit it but sometimes i do throw my clothes on the floor until i decide to wash them. sometimes i wash clothes that i dont think are dirty but they were on the floor so i wash them.