HsvTeacher
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clean his/her own bedroom?
I'm a 2nd grade teacher, and as the years go on, I'm noticing more and more students are not cleaning up after themselves. For instance, yesterday several students left scissors, glue sticks, pencils, etc. on the floor. I asked the students to clean around their desks, and some of them simply did not pick up their own mess. If they drop something on the floor, they leave it instead of picking it up. (This is a daily thing in my classroom, as well as the other 2nd grade room.) Of course we had a discussion about personal responsibility, and several of my students said that their parents clean their bedrooms for them.
I've also noticed more and more Facebook friends with young children posting that they have to clean their child's bedroom. Then comes the "I don't know why I do it, because I will have to clean it again tomorrow after my child destroys it again" posts.
So, do you make your child clean their own bedroom, or do you do it for them?
I'm a 2nd grade teacher, and as the years go on, I'm noticing more and more students are not cleaning up after themselves. For instance, yesterday several students left scissors, glue sticks, pencils, etc. on the floor. I asked the students to clean around their desks, and some of them simply did not pick up their own mess. If they drop something on the floor, they leave it instead of picking it up. (This is a daily thing in my classroom, as well as the other 2nd grade room.) Of course we had a discussion about personal responsibility, and several of my students said that their parents clean their bedrooms for them.
I've also noticed more and more Facebook friends with young children posting that they have to clean their child's bedroom. Then comes the "I don't know why I do it, because I will have to clean it again tomorrow after my child destroys it again" posts.
So, do you make your child clean their own bedroom, or do you do it for them?