A Neat and Clean House vs Children
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| Tue, 07-27-2010 - 8:35am |
For those of you who like a neat and clean house, how do you keep it that way with children?
I find that if I am tied to goal of having a neat and clean house, I become a raging shrew against my children as they proceed to undo all the neatness I have worked so hard to attain. If I made a "neat and clean house" my goal, my children would not have their messy projects that take days/weeks to complete. My children would not pick up a book (casually left out)as they walk through the family room and browse through- discovering once again the mother actually knows about a few good books. I would let them watch more tv/computer time, as they don't make things as messy when they do. I would squash their ideas if I thought it would make too much of a mess. I wouldn't let them cook/experiment in the kitchen- as it is usually more work for me to clean up after they have "cleaned up". So, how do you inspire creativity and imagination in a neat and clean house? Are you on top of them to put things away as soon as they are done even if it is temporary? Where do you put the legos?....... Have you ever allowed them to take over the living room with all of their toys arranged in a city complex (thomas the train things were the Metro, legos and blocks were the buildings....)? How long would it stay up? Would let it be up for the summer so they could add to and change tings around as they got new ideas? Or allowed them to take over half of the family room for a month+ while they build and live in a beaver lodge (using all the empty shoe and other boxes and some that weren't empty)? Even if you have to walk around it everyday to get to the kitchen? Or do you require that all toys be put away everyday?

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Yes and seeing it through my mother, grandmothers and even back to my great grandmother and my motherinlaw still today as well as my mother doing it.
My mother is picky so she understood it. That woman thinks you only eat to get nutition she doesn't get the whole comfort food, foodie, food is social thing and she loves Paula Deen but my mother dislikes butter, whipped creams, sour creams and she will always say "it was looking good until she put that sour cream in it" ha
I remember as a child my mom would literally gag at the smell of pizza so dad would take us to pizza hut and she would stay home ha
Not really hard.
Given that guest list, no beans, vegetarian, lactose intolerant.
I could serve spaghetti with tomato sauce, bread, side vegetable and and a salad.
Yellow squash linguine, side vegetable and a salad.
Vegan pizza, side vegetable and a salad.
I was actually using that as an example....I'd be happy to do the same and it would also be pretty much effortless if say I was frying chicken to add a pork chop in it to fry for one of the kids. Or I'm grilling chicken so I put a burger on for a kid. Whatever the case is I'm always happy to accomodate and please.
Now my teenager loves to cook so sometimes I don't have to do anything because the joy of cooking has been inherited!
Kitty
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