AIBU to be really pleased that I was too lazy to clean the bathroom earlier today?

[MothExterminator]

I just couldn’t be bothered (I usually clean it daily).

Then DS (13) came home having played rugby in school. Bath dirty, floor dirty and the toilet 🤮.

I am doing the cleaning now. And am looking forward to a hot bath in a freshly cleaned bathroom later .

Anyone else with the same experience?

It was intended to be lighthearted and I love nothing more than a bath in a really clean tub.

But it has been a valuable discussion. Out of interest, what time did you all get your children to clean out the bath?

My children tidy their rooms, the living room and help me to hoover. I haven’t asked them to use cleaning products yet - apart from a natural vinegar based mirror cleaner.

Today I will have two (extremely) muddy boys coming home. Youngest boy is 9. Would you ask them to clean together? And would you let the 9 year old use flash non-bleach in the bath?

And when it is only the 9 year old (tomorrow). Would you have a 9 year old scrub the bath and the sink?

We don’t have a shower (extremely old flat) so it has to be a bath. The boys seem to be covered in mud after rugby as well so there will be a trail from the door to the bathroom. They usually hoover this up.

Yes I’d let a 9 year old use cleaning stuff. Once they are taught properly it’s a non issue.

Out of interest, what time did you all get your children to clean out the bath?

Airborne piggies come to mind.

DD smiles kindly on all our attempts to make her useful.

@PlanktonsComputerWife

Out of interest, what time did you all get your children to clean out the bath?

Airborne piggies come to mind.

DD smiles kindly on all our attempts to make her useful.

My almost 5 year is perfectly capable of rinsing the bathtub out with the shower attachment, but if the OP doesn't have any kind of shower that would be hard. Although surely a 9 year old and a 13 year old could use a cleaning spray and a bucket to rinse out the bath, and a sponge to scrub off the mud. It's not really a big deal or a particularly complex skill!

I'm so with @Clymene and @Queenyq

My mother never asked us to lift a finger, ever, and we weren't allowed to use any household appliances apart from the hoover and actually it was a big adjustment to adult life which some in the family haven't actually mastered yet despite being in their late 20s.

I'd be expecting the worst of the mud to be rubbed off outside, sports shoes and socks removed and probably placed on a mat, if too young to use bathroom cleaning products at least some attempt to clean up.
Toilet mess to be cleaned by whoever made it unless very young.

Yes your 9yo should be able to use cleaning products. They can take it in turns.
If you show him how to do it properly after a few times he will be fine on his own, and if you keep telling them every time, it will quickly become second nature to them. Defo instill it now while they are young enough.
Sounds like they do lots of household chores already so this is just an extension of that.

@BarbaraofSeville

It's not twatty. If the bathroom was cleaned yesterday, it doesn't need doing today.

If you think it needs doing today, either someone has made a big mess that they haven't cleaned up, and that person needs to clean it and stop making that much dirt in one day.

Or it's still clean and the OP needs to get help because she thinks a clean bathroom needs cleaning.

Either way, the answer is not for the OP to clean the bathroom today.

The OP can clean her own bloidy bathroom every day if that's what she likes done FFS

@MothExterminator

Looks like an accidental good move- maybe do it more often (leave it until later)

I used to be like you, but I'm older & not in great health (leads to exhaustion) that I can't be anymore. Enjoy having it how YOU want it, while you've the ability & energy to do it!!

@itsgettingwierd

This is why I'm glad my ds is a swimmer.

He showers a lot but at least he comes home bleached and gets in the bath cleaner than it is 🤣🤣🤣

Now if you have any advice on how to stop him soaking the floor even though we have 2 bath mats alongside the bath .......... 🙄🤔

Taught our boys to squeegee themselves with their hands before they get out the bath/shower!

@PlanktonsComputerWife

I now have yet another reason not to clean the bathroom- lest marauding rugby players rampage through it.

Thanks, OP.

I could get on board with that, but they'd have to be one hell of a lot older!!😂

YABU for not losing your shit at him. My parents did not ask me to clean the bathroom at the age of 13. However if I had left trails of mud or any kind of mess like that I would have been shouted at and immediately grounded by my mum and dad. That is seriously completely unacceptable. You are raising a slob who has no respect for you or the house.

It used to baffle me the state in which some people left the bathroom at uni. Now I get it.

@nimbuscloud

Yes I’d let a 9 year old use cleaning stuff. Once they are taught properly it’s a non issue.

Agreed. A 9yo is more than old enough to be trusted not to drink cleaning products!