Tween throwing clothes in the bathroom floor everyday

[Anonymous]

I would instruct her sister to throw her clothes in her room. I would remove her clothes from our bathroom and put it in her room. Only bathroom toiletries stay in the shared bathroom. Then the door stays closed so the rest of us don't have to look at it. I don't allow food and drink in bedrooms either unless people are ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the confiscating clothes. Don’t your kids need their clothes? And do they really care that much about earning them back?
I honestly cannot imagine anything my fifth and sixth grade boys care less about than their clothes.

They don't care whether they have clean clothes? (Mine didn't care about particular items, but they wanted to be able to get dressed)

Not really. Sometimes I have to argue with them to change out of the shirt they wore to bed the night before.

I can’t really imagine them doing chores to win their clothes back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the confiscating clothes. Don’t your kids need their clothes? And do they really care that much about earning them back?
I honestly cannot imagine anything my fifth and sixth grade boys care less about than their clothes.

They don't care whether they have clean clothes? (Mine didn't care about particular items, but they wanted to be able to get dressed)

Not really. Sometimes I have to argue with them to change out of the shirt they wore to bed the night before.

I can’t really imagine them doing chores to win their clothes back.

Peer pressure will take care of that; if not in high school, then college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the confiscating clothes. Don’t your kids need their clothes? And do they really care that much about earning them back?
I honestly cannot imagine anything my fifth and sixth grade boys care less about than their clothes.

They don't care whether they have clean clothes? (Mine didn't care about particular items, but they wanted to be able to get dressed)

Not really. Sometimes I have to argue with them to change out of the shirt they wore to bed the night before.

I can’t really imagine them doing chores to win their clothes back.

Peer pressure will take care of that; if not in high school, then college.

Do you have HS kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the confiscating clothes. Don’t your kids need their clothes? And do they really care that much about earning them back?
I honestly cannot imagine anything my fifth and sixth grade boys care less about than their clothes.

They don't care whether they have clean clothes? (Mine didn't care about particular items, but they wanted to be able to get dressed)

Not really. Sometimes I have to argue with them to change out of the shirt they wore to bed the night before.

I can’t really imagine them doing chores to win their clothes back.

Yeah, my kid wouldn't care either. His clothes are gone? Oh well, he'd pull one out of the drawer that was 2 sizes too small and not care in the least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the confiscating clothes. Don’t your kids need their clothes? And do they really care that much about earning them back?
I honestly cannot imagine anything my fifth and sixth grade boys care less about than their clothes.

It could take a few days or weeks depending on how much clothes they have, but when all they have left is those scratchy pants and that dorky shirt-they notice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so far down on the list of thing I care about. So what if there are clothes on the floor?

My kid does this-there’s a mountain of clothes in his bathroom until it’s time to do laundry. He then picks them up and does his laundry. I don’t do it for him. The only time I will pick it up for him is if the cleaners are coming. Kid has late practices and early start times so if I have to pick them up once every other week so be it. Kid is great overall so I’m not going to get on his case about a pile of clothes on the floor.

Older 2 kids were like this too and they’ve managed to become functioning adults who now contain their clothes to their room and not shared spaces.

Me too - who cares? I am glad you wrote this because I was starting to think I was a slob. I am definitely clean but seriously I have no time to debate stupid stuff that I have no chance of winning anyway.

Same here. And donating the clothes seems ridiculous— just costs me money & time to replace them.