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: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:47pm
I have never heard of that, one person calling a store to see if they can basically go out of business there and put something else in its place-lol!!
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Registered: 04-16-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:48pm
What would be the point of doing that?
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:48pm

so you make mean spaghetti sauceS, plural, not just A mean spaghetti sauce?

 

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Registered: 04-16-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:49pm

Are you the one who said that they aren't really taht involved in community stuff?

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Registered: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:50pm

Well I can tell you that wii batteries go VERY fast. You might be lucky to get one or two days worth of playing with them.


I would rather take the chance of having the better batteries for something that goes that quickly.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:51pm
I hereby consider this post to be my "happy place". :-)











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Registered: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:52pm
I am always open to new ideas. Just because I like to shop doesn't mean I know every single brand out there of every single item.
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Registered: 04-16-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:54pm
Off brand = $.23 per hour

Duracell = $.40 per hour


Almost twice as much.

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Registered: 05-10-2009
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:54pm
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Registered: 03-02-2010
Tue, 08-03-2010 - 9:55pm
If she really "needed" her own onions in it the way she likes them cooked.

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