ok,so he isn't a teenager yet, he's 11, but he certainly acts like one!
We have a lot of arguments with Ds1, and I feel that we are making his life a misery, they tend to be split between his schoolwork (or lack of it), we have the school involved in this, and his untidy bedroom. This is a seriously untidy room, and I am tempted to say to hell with it and go with the 'it's his room, he can mess it how he wants' theory. The main drawback with this is that on his floor are the majority of his clothes, clean and dirty, and he has no problem at all with putting on clothes that are totally filthy and going out in them and of course I feel that this reflects on me. one of the main ground rules in the house is that when you have done your homeword and your room is tidy you can then watch tv/go on the xbox. This boy hasn't been on the x box for weeks as he just quite happlily sits there in his mess doing nothing, regardless of how much trouble he gets in and what other threats are made/carried out.
If I surrender and tidy it for him, I will then get grief from the other two who have to tidy their rooms and I can't do ot for one without doing it for th e other two.
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lilibet · 04/03/2005 13:19
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