I'd like you to look at these photos. These are photos of my 15 year old daughter's room. They are posted here because I'd like a couple of hundred opinions. Is this room messy or clean? Pretty simple, huh? But not it my daughter's eyes. That lovely young girl who used to be charming and smart and NEVER told a lie, has suddenly become, well, a teenager.
Every two weeks my wife and I hire an outside company to come in and do a good house cleaning. Being a double career family it gets to be too much to keep up with some of the chores and still have ANY time to spend as a family. So call it a "perk" we granted ourselves and our children. In order for the cleaning team to do a good job we need to prepare by making sure that things in the house are put away so they can vacuum, dust, etc. They come to the house every other Thursday and the reminders start on the Sunday before they come. Is your clean laundry all put away? Is your dirty laundry in your hamper? Is your room clean? Since the kids' rooms are upstairs and the master bedroom is on the main floor, we don't walk by their rooms everyday.
Wednesday night as usual, we asked the final question: "Is your your room clean and ready for the cleaning crew tomorrow?" The 15 year-old rolled her eyes. She considers this nagging. She sighed, "Yes, my room is clean."
After everyone else had left the house yesterday, I noticed one last basket of my daughter's clean laundry sitting at the bottom of the stairs. Figuring I would do her a favor and carry the clothes up to her room, I headed up the stairs. You know those cartoon characters with the steam coming out of their ears? Well that's probably what I looked like when I got to her room. The pictures are my evidence.
She STILL insists her room was "clean" enough for the cleaning crew to do their job. I leave the final decision in your hands. Please vote below.
Every two weeks my wife and I hire an outside company to come in and do a good house cleaning. Being a double career family it gets to be too much to keep up with some of the chores and still have ANY time to spend as a family. So call it a "perk" we granted ourselves and our children. In order for the cleaning team to do a good job we need to prepare by making sure that things in the house are put away so they can vacuum, dust, etc. They come to the house every other Thursday and the reminders start on the Sunday before they come. Is your clean laundry all put away? Is your dirty laundry in your hamper? Is your room clean? Since the kids' rooms are upstairs and the master bedroom is on the main floor, we don't walk by their rooms everyday.
Wednesday night as usual, we asked the final question: "Is your your room clean and ready for the cleaning crew tomorrow?" The 15 year-old rolled her eyes. She considers this nagging. She sighed, "Yes, my room is clean."
After everyone else had left the house yesterday, I noticed one last basket of my daughter's clean laundry sitting at the bottom of the stairs. Figuring I would do her a favor and carry the clothes up to her room, I headed up the stairs. You know those cartoon characters with the steam coming out of their ears? Well that's probably what I looked like when I got to her room. The pictures are my evidence.
She STILL insists her room was "clean" enough for the cleaning crew to do their job. I leave the final decision in your hands. Please vote below.
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