7 year old with no sense of responsibility

[MrsSnape]

My kids (7 and 9) just don't give a shit about anything. They had a playstation 2 and around 30 games...now ALL of those games are scratched through being left on the floor or just chucked aside with no care at all.

I explained to them that if they had looked after the games, they would have been able to sell them and would have made around £100.

So when I bought them an xbox 360 they swore they'd look after the games. They did for so long but my 7 year old is now treating the games like they're worth nothing at all. Everytime I go into the bedroom £40 games are shrewn all over the floor. Alot of them are now scratched, cases knackered etc.

Today 7 year old told me that his new game (one I bought him in a special edition case, cost £50) is broken. I looked at it and it has a big dint in it as if it has been stood on. I got cross and said "do you realise how much this cost?" and he turned away to hide the fact that he was laughing I'm so pissed off. Most of his DS games are lost too and they're all £30 each.

I am thinking about sticking all of the xbox games on ebay and he can start his collection again from scratch (christmas/birthday presents, pocket money etc). Maybe this will make him realise? Or is it too harsh to sell ALL of his games? most of which were presents (but will probably end up getting broken before long anyway

I think that she should teach them today how to tidy up and then stick to it. They are plenty old enough!

This thread has made me grateful, DC can be ungrateful little sh*ts, but at least they do put games/Dvds away okay.

Agree problem is too many games. I'd be minded to take all but 2 away, tell them to look after those 2. Explain several times in great detail using very small words what you want them to do to look after them correctly. If they do look after them ok, they get one more game out each week. Else, they stay in storage.

Any future games they buy out of their own pocket money or out of their birthday/Xmas gift budget.

They are too young to understand value of things at this age, I find. Alas, as DC get older I am less and less generous about what I buy for them.

No more games that they don't buy with their own saved up pocket money. None

I would not have bought them a xbox if they had already shown that they couldn't look afetr a playstation!

I am a mean parent and we don't have any consoles, DS1 is 7 and has never asked for one as he is always playing outside (long may that continue)

Definetly confiscate the games/console for a period of time long enough to really bother thenm!