For example, the expectation here is that they come in from school, put shoes in the shoe cupboard, hang bag and coat up on peg, take lunchbox to the kitchen and empty it.
The reality is that every day without fail shoes are kicked off and left in the middle of the floor, and coats, bags and lunchboxes are dumped on the floor. I have to tell them to do these same things every single day. They are in year 6 and year 4. Surely it should be second nature by now?
They are expected to put their dirty clothes in the washing basket. They just get left on the floor until I tell them to put them in the basket.
They are expected to hang their towel up after a shower. Not leave it on the floor. Every day "Hang your towel up please".
They leave their stuff littering everywhere. When told to put it away they often just move it to another room/surface and I have to repeat the request to put it away.
Are some people just innately messy or are my children particularly lazy and disrespectful?
I have in the past gone round with a bin bag to get everything they'd left lying around, but this had no effect. And I can't really throw out school shoes and lunchboxes etc.
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Troika · 04/10/2016 14:47
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