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PLEEZZEE, Clean Your Room!

 “The Battle of the Bedroom: Most families at some point have at least one teen or pre-teen whose room resembles a landfill,” says Sue Shellenbarger, author of a recent article in The Wall Street Journal entitled, Clean Your Room…or Else.

Strategies Ms. Shellenbarger recommends that I would support.

  • She suggests first “reasoning” with your teenager. e.g. It will be easier to find things if they are more organized. This makes sense and may be enough to encourage tidiness.
  • Next the author says to set a reasonable deadline for the clean up to be completed. Again, a good plan.
  • Another positive suggestion was to enforce consequences if the deadline isn’t reached.
  • She also suggested making organization easy by having adequate shelves, storage units, and closet space. All good.

 A couple ideas that I could not support.

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