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[quote=Anonymous]We have a full-time housekeeper.  She works at the house every day and primarily cleans up after us.

I recently noticed (don't flame me for not noticing earlier) but I recently noticed that my son is a huge slob.  He literally drops whatever item on the floor wherever he is standing/sitting when he's done with it and walks away.  So, if he's changing clothes, he'll take his socks off in the rec room - leave them on the floor in the rec room; shirt off on his way to his room - drop it on the hallway floor; pants off - dropped on bedroom floor.  I could go on with more examples: towel after shower - on the floor from bathroom to bedroom. Empty glasses - left whenever last drop of drink was drunk.  And what caught my attention that made me start noticing - he was opening a package he got in the mail and simply dropped the trash on the floor.  :shock:  :oops:

I am mortified and obviously I told him to pick up his trash and throw in the garbage, but since then I noticed all these other things (clothes, shoes, glassware, etc.) and I realized that he's never had to pick up after himself because of our housekeeper.

Is it too late at this point to train him to pick up after himself?[/quote]

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