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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I demand my kids clean. Regularly. Which means daily. Five minutes when you come home from school and five to ten minutes before bed.

There are some things I've accepted - backpacks will always live near the front door rather than in their bedrooms, as will shoes (no shoe house). So we created a neat space. It only took me throwing their book bags out the front door once for them to get with the program.

If you want a snack, you eat it in the kitchen or den (if it's a neat snack), and you do not leave that room without taking your mess and making it clean. Dishes go in the dishwasher, any spilled crumbs get vacuumed. If you want to cook, you clean as you go. Once the food is cooking, you clean the prep stuff. After eating, you clean what had been hot bc by then it's cool.

There is a shredder. There is a box next to the shredder for all papers to be shredded. There is another box for recycling. Use them. It only took me dumping the contents of the shredder all over the floor of DD's room once for her to get the memo that she needs to use the shredder.

There is no banging into walls, kicking walls, etc. Accidents happen and that's fine. But there's no ball-playing in the house. It is on the kids to make their friends clean up after each playdate. I will give a 15 minute warning before the kid is scheduled to leave so they have time to clean up. If my kid doesn't make the friend do it, my kid has to do it. If it happens a second time that kid is not welcome back.

The kids dust when I tell them to dust. I give them a section of a room at a time so they learn. Then they are given the whole room. I will not yell. I refuse to be pulled into yelling. If you do not do your chores you do not get your privileges - I'm sure I can easily enjoy using that iPod Touch you seem so attached to. [/quote]

I know you probably get this often but will you marry me?  I don't care what your gender is, I'll make it work.[/quote]

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