My eleven year old is driving me up the wall. I have a three year old and a six year old and she's much, much messier and never tidies up after herself it's actually making me demented.
It doesn't matter how many times I tell her she says 'righttttttttt,I get it stop moaning' then proceeds to make a mess everywhere. I can't stand it.
So this morning for instance iv just went in the bathroom. That was clean and tidy. She's had a shower and there's shampoo squirted down the side of the bath and it's not been rinsed despite being asked ten thousand times. So there's hair all over it too. She's pulled hair out a brush and left it sitting in two big clumps on the windowsill...the bins below it. She's squirted toothpaste over the side of the sink and not rinsed it away and obviously what she spat out hasn't been rinsed. She's left the brush and bobbles on top of the toilet cistern.. The basket for brushes and hair accessories is right behind it on a shelf. Dirty clothes, knickers and wet towel thrown on bathroom floor. She went back to her room after and has a laundry basket there. Deodorant with lid off sitting on toilet cistern when the vanity unit is 60cm above it and where it goes.
Breakfast, she's left the sugar sitting out the cupboard, lid off, sugar all over the worktops and chopping board, bowl just sat on the work surface next to the bin but not emptied, clear mascara with lid off sat on kitchen worktop so it's all gloopy, slippers in middle of kitchen floor. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I'v not been to her bedroom yet to look as I can't handle it.
Does anyone have any tips how to make her be tidier because just asking her repeatedly to do the things needed or showing her isn't working. I'm going to need to go round all morning with her getting her ready to remind her to tidy up!
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ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 17/02/2016 09:10
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