Parents of teens.....

[Krisu]

I am missing several forks and glasses and I know they are somewhere in DS's room I'd go look in there myself but my tetanus shot is not up to date How messy are your kid's rooms?

 

[Serena]

I absolutely insist that I have a clean path to walk in when I enter her room. I do need to occasionally steal back my laundry baskets and my towels.
That path is normally a foot wide and I'm scared of the rest. She insists that there is a method to her madness. She knows were everything is.

 

[SeaSpray]

First of all, we don't allow our DSs to eat in their rooms, except on the rare occasion. I do, however, remember my parents finding various eating utensils under my own bed when I was moving out (all those years ago)

DS14 keeps his room fairly clean and organized. About once a month we have them do a good cleaning and it only takes him about 20 minutes.

DS11, on the otherhand, pulls out too many things during the course of a day then gets overwhelmed when its time to clean up. He's been getting better, the older he gets. He loves it when his room is all clean, he just has a hard time maintaining it, so we've been having him straighten up his room more often so it's not as much of a mess. But even for his messy room, it only takes about an hour to get it all straightened and cleaned.

Both DSs have to have their rooms at least "presentable" in order for them to get their allowance each week.

 

[Lars624]

MY 13 y/o DS's room isn't too bad but his twin sister's room makes me

 

[Serena]

Bri doesn't take food down there. It's a healthy mess. lol

 

[Evil Princess]

I'm 17 and I'm not allowed to eat in my room. Every week I must clean out my closet and make sure that there are no clothes on my floor. I can't keep alot of stuff out on my counters and desks, and every other week I have to put away stuff on the counter BEFORE the cleaning lady comes (NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT ONE, NEVER WILL!!)

The biggest problem I have is the whole clothes on the floor thing. I treat my floor as if it's my hamper. I just leave all clothing there. The rest I'm pretty good about.

My parents are fairly strict about weird things, and my dad is a complete neat freak (yet of COURSE he'd never clean anything himself lol). I don't mind, my room stays clean, it's neater than any other teenagers I know.

I guess I don't let it get that messy because I was raised not to...you should see my rooms at hotels, I organize EVERYTHING!

 

[SDAngel101]

WOW lol this is the question for me! My room is pretty messy right now. Like Evil Princess said, i use my floor as a hamper too. I pick up my clothes like every other day, so its not too bad. But i share my room with my 10 year old sister. Now she on the other hand, is REALLY messy. She likes to play with her toys, but doesn't want to put them away because it will "mess up what i was doing". I usually pick up her clothes for her, because she never will. I keep alot of stuff out on my counters, that doesn't bother me, i like to be able to see all my stuff. Like every month or so, i will go through my room and pick everything off my floor and then vaccum it, but thats about it. Well if i have friends comming over i will clean it up, but just not vaccum. As long as we can play on the pool table, its fine

 

[Keli]

I'm pretty sure my dd would win the messest room of the year award. Her room is truely awful, clothes ALL over the floor. And that child had the audacity to tell me she needed me to wash some of her clothes 'cause she's getting low on clean ones! I told her when those dirty clothes hit the hamper I'll consider washing them. That was two days ago and she hasn't put one item into the hamper yet...

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

LOL! Yeah i just picked up my room a little before i went to discon and walked down with about 5 bowls, some plates, and some glasses!

My room gets really messy during the school week esp a week like this when I just have no time to clean my room.
I'll clean my room once vaca starts and i have time to and then it should stay clean until christmas where i'll clean it again lol.

 

[amid chaos]

...and those dishes didn't land in the dishwasher now, did they?

 

[mamajoan]

LOL...LOL... oh my, oh my... still have ds-15 and dd almost 13 at home. Fortunately their rooms are WAY at the other end of the hallway, otherwise I would be a neurotic mess. I check their rooms once a month while they are present. Most of the time they must do a complete overhaul.. but usually no food is among the clothes, papers, books, music.. etc. They are to clean up their rooms once a week before Sunday night. Funny how many lost assignments are found.... DD rearranges her small room AT LEAST once a week. This includes moving all the wall hangings, furniture etc. Her room is VERY BUSY... as is her ADHD mind... DS.. oh lord.. how deep is the stuff on his floor??

ds-22 now out on his own keeps a very clean apt...and he was hideously messy when a teen.

so.. THERE IS HOPE!!

 

[sharbear]

I am so glad there is hope. I have two teenagers and both of their rooms look at if a bomb went off. I just read in Good Housekeeping that if your teenager has a clean room, you are a push over. Because you must be cleaning your kids room! LOL! The thing that drives me crazy (and is a recurrent theme here) is that the floor is a clothes hamper. Occ. I must insisit that they throw the dirty clothes out the door.

 

[Lucky4me]

Very very messy. Condemned messy. Makes me sick so I keep the door shut messy. Only a year and a half until she leaves for college and I can't wait messy!!

 

[Kitty 34]

My teens' bedrooms????? Nothing a bulldozer couldn't handle!!!

 

[Val]

My DD's room (she's 15) requires a full set of shots before entering (the kind you get when visiting the third world!!!)......she is a slob. My 11 DD is MUCH better- we discovered this when the older one moved to the basement bedroom. My only wish (I hear the voices of my parents here)......that the good Lord gives her a college roommate as messy as she is!!

 

[Tink42]

When I'm ready to do laundry, I carefully make my way through DD (18) room to her clothes hamper. I will only wash what is in there, nothing else. I do not pick stuff up off the floor. Sometimes that hamper is completely empty and her floor is completely covered - but nothing gets washed. What I really can't stand is when she cleans her room and puts clean clothes in the hamper because it's easier than putting them away.

 

[damo]

Oh, I though I was the only one with the messy kid. DS - 13 is much cleaner than DD -16 who just leaves a trail wherever she goes. Her room is a total disaster BUT she is a really great kid so try not to bug her about her one bad habit.

 

[Snow White]

I kindof feel bad, but I make all my boys keep their rooms clean pretty much all of the time, they are in the habit now, so it only takes them a few minutes before school to make the bed and pick up dirty clothes and then a few minutes before bed to clean it up. They like it that way now tho, but who knows what they'll do when they go off to college!

 

[December99]

OMG...I am ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My dd's is the same way - I'm afraid to step past the door - you don't know what might poke ya!!!!!!

That is her job while on Christmas break and I'm sure it isn't going to be a pleasant one!!!!

 

[CyranoJones]

My daughter was pretty messy until she hit 18. All of a sudden she started caring about how her room looked. Up until that point her bedroom door just remained closed. Now when I call her at college she is often cleaning her room (luckily it's a single) or doing laundry. My how she's changed!!