Bella, you have to meet Sydney. She's a little pig. I adore her, she's a smart kid, when she gets yelled at she does care, and often ends up in tears. But, when it comes to keeping her room clean, she's a pig. I'm not talking just messy, she could get her own episode on hoarders!
We moved her room downstairs to give her more space, because frankly, the room upstairs, which is now my bunny/bird/computer room, was tiny. I've had to clean that room too many times to mention. After a lot of yelling, she now keeps her room clean, and has moved into my family room upstairs. She sleeps in her room, but plays in the family room. If I took a picture of that room for you right now, you'd be shocked. I can't walk into it. There are crafts everywhere, clothes on the floor, toys, paper, tape, you name it it's there.
She does care. She hates being yelled at. My theory, she's Rod's child. Jared was messy as a kid, but he grew out of it. I haven't had to clean his room in years. He keeps it clean, vacuums every week, strips his sheets for me to wash, dusts, you name it.
Syd, she just makes a mess to the point where it's overwhelming. I've been asking her to clean it for a week now. Tomorrow while she's at school it's all going in the trash. I'm not even looking through it. If she cared about it, she'd clean it up. I warned her, and I gave her a week. Her time is up. So tomorrow she's coming home to a clean family room, and all of her stuff gone.
But, when it comes to taking care of the expensive things she loves, she learned that lesson. It was a hard lesson for her to learn, much harder than it was for Jared, but doing what I posted, really did the trick when it came to taking care of what she has.
The cleaning thing though, don't know why Jared learned and she didn't. Expect to see her on an episode of hoarders when she moves out. :(
