Blurry Bode trying to keep me from taking a picture of his messy room.
For the most part, we keep our house tidy.
However, encouraging the kids to keep their rooms clean is a losing battle with the exception of making their beds, which they’re pretty good at doing most of the time.
Their actual rooms are another matter. Bode is the messiest and isn’t allowed to have any technology time until his homework is done and room is clean. This works great in the summer when I’m more lax on our schedule but during the school year, I only let him play video games twice a week.
Which means his room is only clean for a very small window twice a week.
The other night as I was putting him to bed, I commented on his messy room.
He carefully looked around, shrugged his shoulders and said, “At least you have a pathway to my bed.”
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