Parents: do you clean your kids' rooms? Do you make them clean? Is there a reward system / allowance / privileges attached to it? I'm curious what different people choose to do.
We make them clean before the cleaners come or company, not every day. Toys/stuff off the floor and on shelves. Any LEGOs on the floor are confiscated. Pillow and blankets on beds/couches as appropriate. It's taken and long time, but now at 6&7, they can do that much mostly independently. We have to comes through periodically and clean out the shelves, etc. They're still not capable of that.
Smiles' room: I clean it. When it gets ridiculous or we're going to have a lot of people over I spend about an hour sorting all the toys on the floor. On good days she doesn't interfere. On bad days I have to try to give her things to distract her so I can stay ahead of her
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I don't any more, which has led to a fair bit of chaos since the boys are still sharing a small room and neither was willing to take responsibility for cleaning things which weren't theirs. Quinn recently did an amazing job sorting things out, though, so I have hope. And when Morgan moves into his own space I think it'll be much easier for them to stay on top of things.
I consider room maintenance part of being in a household, just like picking up after themselves downstairs, so no special rewards for that. I do occasionally pay for or reward efforts above and beyond the expected, though.
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I consider room maintenance part of being in a household, just like picking up after themselves downstairs, so no special rewards for that. I do occasionally pay for or reward efforts above and beyond the expected, though.
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