The boy is a typical 12 year old as far as messes go. So...my normal routine at the house is threefold: pick up Sterlings' stuff, ask him to pick up his stuff or look at it as long as I can tolerate then throw it by his room. As anyone with kids knows...it takes only a matter of seconds to decimate an entire room.
Getting him to pick up his room may turn into a week long event. I can ask one day, remind him throughout the week and finally get him to clean. When he does actually clean his room it takes him about 30 minutes as he needs to play with everything he touches. Then he always complains that it takes him forever to clean his room. Duh! He will do almost anything to avoid having to clean it.
As a sidenote...when I say clean his room, what I mean is clean it so I can see the floor. I realize he has stuff under his bed and in the closet and in his chest of drawers.
A couple days ago his mom and half-sister, who is three, came over. The sister, Lily, went directly into Sterlings freshly clean room. Sterling was in the front room putting on his shoes so they could leave. He gathered all his stuff, put on a coat and called to Lily. By the sound of things, Lily was playing with something in his room.
"What's she doing?" he asked me. I took a gander and told him she was playing with one of his games. "That is the messiest game I have. That'll take me forever to clean that crap up." he said. Mumbling angrily, he went into the room, grabbed her and they left.
How does it feel, buddy...how does it feel.
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