My 13 year old son is a complete slob

[Mermaid02]

I have never in my life seen such a disgusting bedroom- except maybe on tv. There's dirty dishes and food everywhere- Dirty clothes on the floor. Gross. Just gross.

 

[wvjules]

My dd is the same way, well she was. Now she is not allowed to have food in her room anymore. She's actually grounded from her computer right now for having food in her room. I will not have bugs because she is a slob. We have 3 stories...she is free to eat in any room but the bedrooms.

 

[Shmily1]

That's just the 13 year old boy in him... he'll outgrow it and become the cleanest person in the house--even more than you--or atleast he will think so! DS20 was like that until he went to college. Now he's the only one that cleans up anything!!

 

[Mermaid02]

My dd is the same way, well she was. Now she is not allowed to have food in her room anymore. She's actually grounded from her computer right now for having food in her room. I will not have bugs because she is a slob. We have 3 stories...she is free to eat in any room but the bedrooms.

I'm going to have to implement the same rule. Drinks too- I found more half empty sodas.......

 

[iwrbnd]

My teen boys are that way, too! I love having a clean and clutter free house but their rooms are I used to clean them but I gave in and just close the door now! I did put my foot down on the food thing, though, since I'm super petrified of cockroaches!!!

 

[cepmom]

my girls are slobs too...we do not allow food in bedrooms though so most times I try to just ignore the mess. I do make them clean though when they are being punished and sent to their room for misbehaving

 

[Momvic5]

My 14yrs old son is a slob too. If I let him, he would never make his bed and his dirty clothes would never make it to the laundry room. However, I have been called a "neat freak" a time or two, and he has learned that if he wants to live the good life, he will keep his room tidy. By no means is it the way I would prefer(I have to fight myself from remaking his bed), but it is tidy. I remind him daily about his room, and I am hoping that one day it will just become a habit for him to keep his space clean.

I was not a neat freak in my younger/teen years so I am hoping that there is still hope for my kids.

 

[msmouse]

That's just the 13 year old boy in him... he'll outgrow it and become the cleanest person in the house--even more than you--or atleast he will think so! DS20 was like that until he went to college. Now he's the only one that cleans up anything!!

From your lips to Gods ears! Mine is 31 and NOTHING has changed. His home is a wreck. He looks at me like I have grown another head when I comment on it.

 

[SandrA9810]

i'm still bad about half full drinks in the room, but usually when there's a handful i'll make the trip to the kitchen.

There's still time. And when he's on his own cleaning his own place, he'll learn it's easier to keep thing kept up than spending a whole day cleaning a week's worth of messes.
He only has to deal with a mess in one room, but if your whole house was that way, he probably couldn't stand it.

 

[NMAmy]

DD, 19, is a total slob--however, she hates to stay at her dad's house because it's "too messy." I can only imagine what it looks like if she thinks it's too messy.

 

[marcyinPA]

Sounds like my DS15...except his is forbidden to have food in his room.

His room is a total fire trap though...he's got papers, books, clothes, etc. EVERYWHERE.

There have been several instances this year in which he had to wear dirty clothes to school because he never put his laundry in the hamper. I refuse to touch it, and he knows it. If it's not there on the day I do laundry, he either does his own, or wears dirty clothes.

I try to take in stride, but I do flip out on him on occasion. Then he cleans it, it's good for a day, and then right back to being disgusting again.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I have the hammer down on my dd's who are 19 and 13. I am sick of the trash and glasses and the other crap so I am making them clean it up.

 

[wvjules]

Sounds like my DS15...except his is forbidden to have food in his room.

His room is a total fire trap though...he's got papers, books, clothes, etc. EVERYWHERE.

There have been several instances this year in which he had to wear dirty clothes to school because he never put his laundry in the hamper. I refuse to touch it, and he knows it. If it's not there on the day I do laundry, he either does his own, or wears dirty clothes.

I try to take in stride, but I do flip out on him on occasion. Then he cleans it, it's good for a day, and then right back to being disgusting again.

It's astonishing how quickly a clean room looks like a tornado went through it. I swear when DD cleans her room, in less than 1/2 a day (and that's being generous) it looks exactly like it did before she cleaned. I honestly have no idea how it gets so messy so fast!

 

[ksjayhawks]

Make a rule of no food in the room (have him clean out all the dirty dishes and food wrappers, etc).

Shut the door.

 

[shortbun]

The food in the room thing is hard. I have cleaning people who come in weekly now and they grab all the dishes every week. I make him clean his floor the night before they come and I put clean sheets out for them to change his bed too. I keep my own room clean but when I was a teenager so I'm not too hard on my son, lol!

 

[SC Minnie]

My dd is the same way, well she was. Now she is not allowed to have food in her room anymore. She's actually grounded from her computer right now for having food in her room. I will not have bugs because she is a slob. We have 3 stories...she is free to eat in any room but the bedrooms.

We don't allow food upstairs at all. DD gets grounded often for having food in her room or in the bonus room. It wouldn't be so bad but she leaves crumbs or empty wrappers with food on them. That's how she gets caught.

And she is in general a slob too.

 

[Darsa]

My DD14 has a habit of bringing her box of crackers in her room, or a cut-up apple or bowl of cereal, and just leaving the leftovers there. I've tried everything I can think of, including leaving them there 'til they're pretty , but it keeps happening. Ugh.

She's getting a little better tho, now that she has a "boyfriend" who's a neat freak. She doesn't want to look like a slob to him when he comes over to visit. I like this kid, so far!

Oh yeah, I have to confess, as well, that I always have a bottle of water at my desk in my room, but I don't always bring them out to the recycleable box in the garage. Sooo, sometimes I have a "collection" going on

 

[Cindy B]

We have the "food only in the kitchen or outside" rule. If you are caught eating/drinking out of the room, you have a consequence. My son thought he was being sneaky until we made him go outside in the wintertime to eat a snack!

However, we still have the clothes on the floor and junk on the floor issues.

 

[TiggerTails57]

Sounds like how my son's room was when he was a teenager (he's 30 now!!)
The best thing is he turned out great!! he does all the shopping, cooking and CLEANING!! His wife is an RN and works long swifts.
When he left home to join the Air Force it took DH and me 3 days to clean up his room.......we scraped, and sorted, and what we found under the bed!!
The best thing I did was stop picking up his washing.....if it wasn't 'IN' the hamper it simply didn't get washed, and he did his own.
Also, learn to close his bedroom door.......... I really would have gone crazy if I hadn't!!

 

[momof1princess]

my DD12 is a total slob too! i don't know what i'm going to do with her! she doesn't eat food in her room though, because i've never allowed it, but good grief, it looks like both toys r us and tj maxx blew up in her room! i want to just shovel it all out the front door and start cleaning, but i refuse. when she gets tired of stepping over clothes and stuff and not being able to have friends over b/c her room is so dirty, she'll clean it.