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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No cleaning lady here.  I insist that the room hits vacumable status every week or so and also that no food/dishes go up.  It is a choose your battles thing for me.  It is just not the hugest issue to me and I do not think it will ensure proper cleaning when they are adults. [/quote]

I have tweens and no cleaners. Seen from here, what you expect from your teen depends entirely on what you've expected of them in earlier years.
Our criteria is also 'vacuumable.' One tween complains that vacuuming kicks up their allergies, so that step is negotiated between the rest of us, traded between siblings for other steps in cleaning, or kicked down the road to the next time I ask them to make their room vacuumable a few days later.

Often, the process leads to most of the non-floor surfaces getting covered in picked up clutter, minus dirty clothes and empty glasses.

The plan for the next couple of years is to get them to also tidy up 'above-ground' without my getting involved pointing things out or tidying them up with them.

Sorry if this sounds off-topic to whatever the dance is getting teens to do basic things. 
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