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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suddenly tween son thinks I’m not allowed in his room and have to ask permission to enter even when he’s not there. I don’t recall ever doing this to my mom and this seems not okay to me. I’m fine with knowing if he’s inside and w not going through his stuff, but not entering?

[b]I told him if he wants that then he has to do the things associated w having a space & for which people currently enter: making bed, changing sheets, keeping clean, folding and putting away clean laundry, packing & unpacking suitcases, etc[/b].[/quote]

A couple people commented on this but no one asked - are you saying you come into his room to do this stuff for him now, and he'll have to do it himself if you are not allowed in his room? Because if that's the case, he should be doing most of that stuff anyhow.

My 11 year old has been doing the following for several years: 
 - makes his bed every day
 - pulls the sheets off and brings them to the laundry room when they need to be washed (I do usually make the bed with the clean sheets)
 - keeps his room generally tidy, minimal crap on the floor
 - puts away clean laundry (I typically fold it and leave it in the laundry room and he takes it from there)
 - he will sometimes pack a packing cube, but I often take care of that while he's at school before a trip. Unpacking, most of the stuff goes right into the laundry.

My kid is behind the curve on chores... plenty of kids his age are doing their own laundry.

So you're threatening to make him do stuff he should have been doing for years, basically. [/quote]

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