How do you get a teenager to clean his/her bedroom?

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Is there a painless way to get a teenager to tidy up and/or even clean her bedroom? If so, can other Mumsnetters put me in the picture?

black bag the lot and stick it by bins

I find that my DS just doesn't know how to clean or to care that he is living in squalor.

I will spend a day with him every 4 - 6 weeks and we work on it together. I generally instruct him in how to clean his bathroom, and then I will sneak in and finish it off.

Yay ds1 is hoovering , still in his pj's but doing it. Then he's off to the Power League and those black pellets of hell will be back again

I think I must be a particularly Bad Mum in this respect! I have paid almost no attention to my boys' rooms since they reached the age of about 9. I rarely even go up to their attic - only exceptions are when my shouting and phonecalls have failed to rouse my eldest in the morn, or if he falls asleep with the telly on too loud at night. On those rare occasions I try hard not to look! They do most of their own laundry - tho I will wash clothes left in or by the machine... They change their own sheets... They vac if they want to... And from time to time I make them my eldest bring all his dirty crockery etc. downstairs.

My eldest (17) lives in a pigsty and complains "everyone else's mum tidies...". My youngest (12) has his stuff neatly organised, boxed, filed, sorted and doesn't like me 'messing' with it. His room is much tidier than mine!

I hate housework, so I save all my efforts for the shared 'public' spaces...
Occasionally, usually if we're due to have visitors, we'll do a blitz together.
Sometimes I'll pay one of them to do my share... but I wouldn't pay them to do their own rooms, or basic daily 'helping out' like laying the table or putting dirty pots in the dishwasher...

That's pretty much what was expected of me when I was a child, too... Tho we had a cleaner... Who couldn't get into my room for mess...

I withhold pocket money/ treats until it is done. Seems to work.

There isn't just close the diir and let them get on with it. Remind them occasionaly that they should tidy but tht;s all, Also ask that all cups are brought down,

If DD wants her phone/laptop/pals over/whatever, she tidies her room. Simple (but still has to be asked).