My kids do not respect anything, they take off their clothes and just sling them on the floor, they come home from school and just sling their coats and bags on the floor, so many thing get lost and broken it's untrue.
Their bedrooms are a tip, my 8 year old manages to keep his room decent simply because he got rid of all of his toys (was never a toys kinda child) but coathangers are left on the floor, I bought him a green day calender and the drawing pin apparantly "fell" out of the wall and the calender was just left slung on the floor, all the pages creased up etc , I bought him a big poster of his favourite band too and its hanging off the wall where its been ripped away from the drawing pins. I bought him a Nintendo DS for Christmas and a few months later he "Lost" it, rather than being distressed about it being lost he just shrugged his shoulders and said "well I don't know where it is do I?" and refused to look for it, I explained how much they cost and he just said "thats not much, psps cost more than that" . I found it in the end but the games are forever going missing, one of them is currently on the bedroom floor, the box wide open on the floor with the inlay lying at the other side of the room.
My 6 year old is just as bad, you cannot get in his room without stepping on toys, mostly broken toys because they've been left in the middle of the floor.
He has loads of playmobile and he will not leave the buildings standing, I spent a whole afternoon last week building the police station, vehicals and zoo for him and asked him not to break them up as it took me so long to do...needless to say they're all in pieces on the bedroom floor now.
How do I change this behaviour? I find it very upsetting, they're so spoit and ungrateful. I've already told them that I'll be buying no toys at christmas and they'll only be getting useful things like clothes, maybe dvds etc, they don't care.