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tidying a teenagers room..aged 14
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is it normal to be accused of nagging and to leave him in peace..teenage boy aged 14
i mean, i have to get his uniform, socks and the like and wash them..or shall i just leave it.??..
jeez
i mean, i have to get his uniform, socks and the like and wash them..or shall i just leave it.??..
jeez
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Get them, wash them, don't disguss - it's not optional.
i suppose..i only stopped to continue our chat over dinner...
i suppose he is online with his mates..
ah well
im sure, opal fruits wrappers everywhere as well..
Perhaps he wants feeding, opal fruits won't sustain him!
no way..hes just had a steak
made the little....sorry butter wouldnt melt ..fill the dishwasher
Don't tidy his bedroom, clench your teeth, he will tidy his bedroom, it took a two month silent war of attrition before one of our sons gave in and Mum won.
But by far our girls bedrooms were the worse, they could, with out to much effort, make bedroom paradises look like tips in a few short hours.
Don't fall out over his room. It's his space. Go in get his uniform, wash it, put it back. As long as there is no fungal growth in there or pests like cockroaches or rats prowling it's not the biggest issue in the world. And he'll soon grow out of it. Especially when girls enter his consciousness.
Leave them not a single inch of privacy and they'll soon become frustrated. If they complain, just calmly tell them you need to get the dirty washing and change the bed sheets, as though they're still babies. They'll soon have to choose privacy or childhood, instead of trying to play you for the best of both worlds.
If you do find soggy tissues hidden under the bed, just take them out and place them openly in a bedroom bin to be emptied by the perpetrator at leisure, without saying a word. Seeing them moved will be enough to mortify the blighter, and that's all part of 'helping' them adapt from the childhood bedroom they've become accustomed to, to teenage life where they're becoming people living under your roof.
This is the complication we've all brought upon ourselves by ceasing to beat them and send them up chimneys from an early age. Ed Miliband will only make things worse.
He had just turned 20 at the time and he had a huge black bin-liner in the corner of his bedroom, filled to the brim with empty beer cans! :eek:
Horrible, and very smelly.
Out of interest, if he had it as cushy as that in his parents house, how old was he before he moved out, and was it to a council flat?
I haven't seen him for years but my brother spotted him in a pub, just round the corner from his parents house so he must still be living there. He'll be 31 now.
Always was fat and lazy. Never paid any board either.
If it's not in the washing basket, it doesn't get washed. Simple. They soon learnt when they'd ran out of clean clothes:D
It's funny, 13 year old kids were working down the pit 70 years ago. Nowadays, 19 is still seen as a child.
I had a teenage friend who simply wouldn't get a job. Left school as soon as he was 16, two terms before the end of the school year, and went straight on the dole. The last time I ever met him, he spent the whole afternoon whinging he was 21 with no girlfriend, car or money, and was living in a caravan at the bottom of his brother's garden without even a TV.
Like I said, it was the last time I ever met the lazy swine. The last I heard, he was supposedly living on a really rough council estate, still on the dole, and now with a dog.
Obviously my eldest is now much better
My parents would have allowed me to sit on my arse until i was 21, but my father has always worked so I wanted to work.
And once you have the taste of earned money its hard to imagine life without some sort of money coming in.
I was on the dole for a few months, and the money felt fake.
This is absolutely brilliance. OP, by all means follow this golden advice. Pretty soon your child will be doing his own hoovering and if you're truly lucky, asking for instructions on how to use the washing machine.
Weirdly though, I keep the living areas of my home immaculate.
She mostly brings stuff down. When her room gets to bad for to long we cut off her wifi till its done. You would be amazed at how fast it gets cleaned