A Neat and Clean House vs Children

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Registered: 07-17-2007
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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Registered: 07-17-2007
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:33pm
That is why we use rechargable batteries They save money in the long run.
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Registered: 05-10-2009
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:33pm

<<puree is thin, paste is thick, those together make my sauce just right but that's just me, i don't like a thick sauce.

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Registered: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:33pm
Exactly and that is why you buy batteries that last longer.
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Registered: 05-10-2009
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:34pm
Ehh, I meant canned.
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Registered: 04-16-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:35pm
Hunts, Delmonte, S&W,
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Registered: 05-10-2009
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:35pm
yes. Seeing the list of ingredients doesn't make theirs better than mine.
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Registered: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:35pm
lol!! You don't have a wii system I assume?-lol!!
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Registered: 07-17-2007
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:35pm
What are Tater tots bread rolls?
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Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:36pm

Me either. We had beans and rice meals growing up. Navy bean soup with cornbread was another meal. The soup was flavored with ham but certainly there wasn't enough ham in the soup to call it ham and bean soup or even bean and ham soup. Baked beans, cornbread, and applesauce or salad was another.

Chris

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Registered: 05-10-2009
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:36pm

What information are you basing that assumption on?


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