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Kids can't clean bathrooms?
I thought that was the whole reason they invented Clorox wipes. lol
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Re: Kids can't clean bathrooms?
I was able to when I was a kid, but I was weird and didn't mind cleaning.
My brother was so icked out by the thought of pee touching his delicate little fingers (mind you, it was his pee since he can't make it in the pot to save his life) that he would run outside and hide if someone told him to clean the bathroom.
I'm picturing two boys, 7 & 8, trying to clean a bathroom... I'm betting they got distracted by a water battle and either forgot to finish up or Trista caught them in the act and made them leave the room so she could clean up their mess all by herself.
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LOL I loved helping my mom clean the bathrooms when I was a kid. How much I actually helped (versus got in the way) I don't know.
The chore I hated? I hated mowing the law and weed wacking. Didn't mind the gardening or raking leaves, but blech to mowing.
Learning how to clean (for both my brother and myself) was required in my household. Kids can clean! haha
They can.... I just don't understand why they can't do a good job.
I asked my teenager to sweep the bathroom floors and when I went in there there was dirt still in the corners. Funny how when I sweep it the broom is able to reach the corners. "sigh" And I wonder why I just do it myself 95% of the time.
And what makes me mad is... I know she does a shitty job, so I just do it anyways. And I don't make her redue it... cuz I don't want to listen to her b!tch.
It's never a good idea to send two kids into the bathroom unsupervised to clean. You'd have to expect they'd go stupid. LOL
The best reason to make your kids clean a damned bathroom is because otherwise, they don't seem to be aware of what a mess they're making just in using it. I got tired of walking in to see their nasty ass toothpaste all over the sink, their clothes on the bathroom floor, and random stuff everywhere. Ever since I started making them cleaning, they've been soooooo much better at picking up after themselves.
But admittedly, I make them clean shiit all the time as a reminder to do other stuff. Like Lulu pisses on the bathroom floor if you leave the door open. Therefore, anyone who leaves the bathroom door open has to clean up the Lulu piss. I also noticed their happy asses found it easier to remember to put something over a dish when they nuked it once I started making them clean the microwave.
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Apparently they can?
*shrugs*
Just trying to help the unhelpable.
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
This is so confusing to me. I would haul his_ass back inside, hand him a pair of gloves, and tell him that he can't come out until the bathroom was cleaned. Do people seriously buy "I don't wanna" and "that's yucky" as acceptable reasons not to do chores???
My parents have a ton of pictures of me scrubbing the toilets when I was a kid. And I did a damn good job!
I don't understand why this is so hard for parents to get.
That's exactly how things run among my circle. When we were kids, we all had to pull our weight. We do (or will be doing) the same thing with our kids.
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Apparently so.
We lived in a relatively large development, so there was a metric shiit-ton of hiding spots.
He moved to our dad's house in elementary school because it was too difficult at our mom's. Meaning, at dad's, our step-mom did all of the cooking, cleaning and laundry. At mom's, you had to pull you own weight.
At mom's, if you wanted a snack you grab a piece of fruit and head back outside. At dad's, if you wanted a snack you'd sit down at the bar in the kitchen and play with your game boy while step-mom put together some apple dumplings from scratch.
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Totally. I had an everyday chore list, a once-a-week chore list, and a special occasions chore list. As in, if my friends were coming over to spend the night (or I had a day off from school), there was a honey-do list taped to my corn flakes.
Yup and you would think after cleaning up his own piss for a while, he'd get better at aiming. lol
I admit, I HATED cleaning the bathroom, especially the floor and toilet since it was decidedly NOT my piss I was cleaning up. But my mom was all, uhm, what do you think will happen when you have a husband and children?
Even then I thought to myself, good god, I will kill a grown man who pisses all over the floor and toilet and doesn't clean it up. But she had a point about kid piss. LOL
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How have I never thought of this? We do have the first two chores lists tacked to the dining room wall though. And OMG, I have to put the most obvious shiit on there two or no joke, they'll forget to brush their own teeth. I can't just say Laundry I have to say, put all school clothes in the washer, 7 pairs of socks and seven pairs of underwear. Make sure something gets washed that you can wear to church on Sunday. Also, make sure you put them in the dryer when they are done. Make sure you take them out of the basket and put them in the drawer.
::sigh::
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My DS can, but it's usually a halfassed job. Funny how since he's been having his girl friends over his bathroom has been cleaned regularily and looks pretty good! Toilet is clean and there isn't any toothpaste on the faucet.
I'm thinking of pulling aside these girls and asking them to tell him how much they love a guy who cooks!
I can see why a 7 and 8 year old (and putting them together, no less) would have trouble cleaning the bathroom by themselves, especially if this was their first time doing it and they were expected to clean every little corner and dust mite. However, they should be quite capable of doing a decently good job.
When I was that age, I did things like put away the dishes, help with the laundry (even though I wasn't quite tall enough to reach into the washer and had to practically climb in, lol), sweep, vacuum, rake leaves, clean the table, wipe counters, clean the bathtub. The younger you start 'em, the less supervision/instruction they need when they get older.
Don't tell them where you got the idea. I don't want to get on Pinky and Pete's shun list.
I don't have the pictures to prove it, but yeah - I was the one who always cleaned the bathroom.
The picture was during my awkward years too - perm, braces, stonewashed jean shorts...it will never see the light of day.
Yep, this is exactly how my stepmom was. Summer vacations, we had a GINORMOUS list of chores (which included building stone walls, knocking down sheetrock walls, taping and compounding new sheetrock, etc). There was no just lazing about and playing video games over the summers.
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The thing with step kids is either
a. they are effed up b. there other parent is effed up.
Trust me I used to be the just get in there and do it or you will never touch your ds again. That was until their mom wondered why I would get up during the middle of a board game and call her kids stupid and say I don't want to play games with them anymore because I was way better then them at it. (never happened) Or even better "Joey doesn't want to come to your house anymore because Trista is mean to them."(also not true).
No it's more like> Yes kids whatever you want, but only because I don't want to *** slap your mommy for buying into your BS.
Okay, so the options are only that the young, innocent kids are effed up or it's the OTHER parent. So it's never YOUR husband that didn't teach them to clean up after themselves? It's amazing how that works.
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WTF? Generalize much?
Do you really think that this is true?
Yeeeaaaaah. I don't think you give a bad first impression, I think you give a bad impression period. To generalize about step-kids in this way is offensive. And hell, I was a step-kid, and I know my step-mom made sure we didn't have to do chores at her house so we wouldn't hate her.
But I'm not effed up, and neither of my parents are either.
Oh, but once again, nothing is YOUR fault, and you have excuses for everything. It's your H, it's the step-kids, it's their mom, everyone in your life is messed up except you. Yeah. Okay.
First off that was suppose to read "my" step kids.....and the answer was more pointed towards their mother (since I have pretty good stepkids). Second it had nothing to do with cleaning, it was about me not wanting to say anything in fear that their mother is going to call because I asked her kids to do something and tell my husband another effed up lie about how I'm always mean to the kids and call them stupid.
Will you guys wait for me to answer before you jump to the conclusion that I'm a monster?
Pedantic- don't be a jerk! She's totally giving us all the pertinent information right away in an effective, easy-to-understand way. The 100 people who are reading and commenting on this post are all just wrong. DUH!
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No I need to make sure my posts have no typos in them.
hmmm.... I'm not buying it.
If it was about your SKs in particular, you wouldn't have given an either/or there. Can you imagine how flucked up this country is getting? There are more and more stepkids and other parents every single day.
And here is yet another reason about her husband is actually a saint and we all just misunderstand him. Even though her ORIGINAL post was about how big of a piece of shyt he is. I'm starting to think this b1tch is pulling a Sybil
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lol okay.