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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids aren’t allowed to play in the main areas of the house, what are they doing while you are cooking and cleaning?

If it’s ok if my kids run around your house, get all the toys out, go outside, come back in, leave a dirty footprint and a small pile of sand on your hardwood and clean footprints all over your carpet, get crumbs in your kitchen when they have a snack, pull the pillows off the couch, and get fingerprints on your glass table...when do you clean it up?  Then when do you make dinner if it’s an afternoon play date?  What are your kids doing while you clean?

I always feel like this is all find in most homes because most people are ok with it being a little bit of a mess most of the time and kind of a disaster some of the time.  They would clean up later that night or the next day when they got around to it.

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NP, but my kids' toys live in the playroom, which is on the third floor (we moved from DC to the beach so we don't have a basement because we can't dig under our house that deep).  In the family room we have board games, card games, and coloring stuff plus books.  In their rooms, our kids have books and coloring stuff.  If they bring toys from the playroom into other parts of the house or outside, then they put the toys back there at the end of the day.  So it's not that they aren't allowed to play with their toys except for in the playroom, it's that that's where the toys live.  I imagine perhaps some other people's set up is the same.  It's truly not some big mystery.

Also, if your kids come over and get all the toys out and pull the pillows off the couch, I'd expect the kids would clean up when they are done playing.  My friends would never let their kids leave a house with all that stuff out when their kids are the ones that did it.  In terms of the crumbs, sand, and dirt, I'd run the cordless vacuum cleaner for less than five minutes and clean it up, probably either after the play date so it doesn't get tracked somewhere, or later that day.  Again, really not a big mystery, it isn't that hard to straighten up and vacuum.  And when I'm vacuuming my kids are probably outside, coloring, playing together, helping make dinner, I don't know, any number of things.  [/quote]

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