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Let’s pretend your kitchen looks like this (not that mine does :)) because you told your kids 2 days ago you were not cleaning up after them, and someone unexpectedly stops by…
What would you do:
A. Explain you are on strike and not cleaning up after teenagers.
B. Scream “OMG! Someone broke into my house and trashed the place!!!!”
C. Just ignore it and pretend like it is spotless. Although the guest keeps staring.
Not that this would ever happen to anyone but me….
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I will tell them im on strike
I would apologize and go with A not cleaning up after teenagers. However, I have three now, 13,14, and 15, I find myself putting things in piles of who it belongs to, so they put it away when they get home and I can sweep and clean the floor.LOL
A, definitely! What did you do?
If my friend was staring I would say “oh yeah…this is nothing…I gets way worse than this”. You shouldn’t have to explain. And I am sorry but that is not a mess. 😉
A. This is gross but im tired of cleaning toilets that I don’t pee all over! I try to give the kids the easy stuff but when we do all the hard stuff and there is an 18yr and 11 yr old in the house its time for them to start taking care of the harder stuff. Ive been on strike for 2 wks:( dont know how much longer I can go.
LOL! Amen!
Tell company of the strike. AND maybe mention that if I knew they were coming over (I don’t like unannounced guests) that I’m sure kids would have cleaned up sooner. Personally, I would not give my kids their allowance (ages 17 and 16), if they left this mess. Payments are given if they do their “job” as the boss expects…. school work, chores, good behavior is their job.:)
I would totally throw the kids under the bus and blame them….
IF my kitchen looked like that and a guest came over, I wouldn’t be happy. I would probably just explain to the guest that the kitchen and children are involved in a “parenting experiment”. However, my plan would be to prevent the kitchen from getting out of hand in the first place. If the kids don’t want to help with dishes and/or putting items away, than I would just hang on to their iphone, xbox, car keys, favorite toy, etc. until they did their fair share of clean up!
I love this. I would call my teenagers in and have them explain why the kitchen looks the way it does. It usually helps motivate them to get busy.
A – all the way!
🙂 Just this morning my almost 11 year old son was in a panic because he had no jeans to wear. Hmmmm…. I told him at least 10 times over the last month, if they don’t make it down the laundry chute they will not get washed. He looked a little silly with his baggy pants – hopefully enough to inspire action! 😉
That’s when you grab your coat and THEN answer the door and say, “Oh! I was just leaving!” 🙂
A, all the way! This would drive me CRAZY. I’m “kind of” a neat freak and I would of already cleaned it up. Hmmm, maybe that’s why my 10 and 8 year old only do things when I tell them they will get a quarter (wonder how much longer a quarter will get them motivated) and then with my 16 year old, all I have to tell her is that she can’t go anywhere (that’s a guarantee motivation, esp. since she has a car)…KIDS 🙂
C, then A. But if they’re coming to my house, they probably have kids of their own, and would sympathize completely.