Nice title huh! Ok so my kids have today off and Monday. I'm not really ready for that. So far today I have been trying to get my kids to clean there rooms and do their jobs. I figure if they do it today they won't have to do it tomorrow when dad is home. Michael was great, he normally complains but ends up doing it. But my girls....OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so frustrated with them. It's like this any time they are supposed to clean. First they make a bigger mess. Then they role play instead of clean. I get so mad.
I need a vacation!!!! I wish I could seriously just hop on a plane and got to Utah and see my Brother. I wish!!!! No I have to stay and listen to my kids talk back to me. And trying to keep my temper in check is not working!!!!
(do I have enough exclamation points yet?)
I get so frustrated with my mute daughter! Taylor just stares at you like she has absolutely no idea what you are saying. I asked, "you either take a nap or start cleaning, one, two, three!" She points her foot doesn't say anything, so when I go to put her in bed she says, "I said clean my room." NO SHE DID NOT!!!!!!!! It's like that all the time.
Ok, deep breaths, deep breath....Ok now that, that is hopefully out of my system. Oh wait so my girls love to take food into their room when they are not supposed too. So on a shirt I find some fuzzy green thing maybe the size of a grape. But It's not some fuzzy toy no it's a powdery mildewy grape (I think) It's so gross.
Ok, I'm a little tired and crabby. Sorry. To top it all off Baseball season started, so that mean two practices a week, until the seasons starts than it will be a practice and two games a week. And to think I told the coach if he still cant' find a team mom I'll do it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???? I must loved to torture myself.
Ok, time to make lunch!
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Here's what I do. Don't know if it'll work for your family or not. I say, "Feel free to keep what you put away." Then, when you feel an adequate amount of time has passed, get a trash bag and collect what hasn't been cleaned up. Throw it away or put it in the car to take to DI. Don't explain a thing. They understand the trash bag. The first time is always a test and it has the same result, so plan this on a day when there's not much to clean and _you_ don't mind throwing away whatever's out. But the next time you say that phrase, they'll remember. If they don't, shake the trash back out and collect as much of their favorite things as you can before they do. It'll be the last time that phrase doesn't work. Anytime I see clothes on the floor and can pick them up before they do, I keep them until they buy them back 10 cents a piece.
P.S. It puts the fun back in parenting.
Sounds like an awful day!
I love the trash bag idea--my mom did that when we were younger and it seemed to work.
Here's another suggestion (which my Mom RULED at!) Make your family a team. We would make family goals (housecleaning, etc) and then divide and conquer.
If it's you versus them, I think there will always be struggling. If you work together, maybe it would be easier.
(take this from someone who has half as many kids as you and none of them are Taylor!)
If you ever want to call and vent something, I'd be happy to listen!!!
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