quote:Originally posted by thenagel:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Buttercup:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
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so.. you've told your child to clean his room.
he persists in not cleaning his room. you've told him he's grounded, he gets tiem out, no tv, no ipods, no playstation, no anything for a week, and still he doesn't clean his room.
what's next?
you tell him to clean the room and he says no.
you tell him some more. he says no.
you tell him again, and you get no results.
regardless what you choose to believe, there are kids out there with enough stubbornness to resist anything you say.
my son is one of these. he would rather sit in tiem out and lose privledges that to do a chore he hates. he'd rather be grounded for a week than clean his room. 2 weeks. 3 weeks. he'd rather me clean his room with a shovel, straight into a garbage can than to clean it himself.
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Nice to hear I am not the only one, when my oldest child was around 6ish (don't recall his exact age at the time) We had trouble getting him to clean his room. I eventually told him he had two hours or I would be coming in with a garbage bag and throwing away all toys left on the floor. He went to his room, a few minutes later he came out, went into the kitchen, got a garbage bag and brought it to me!! Yes you read that right, he would rather me throw away all his toys than to have to clean up his room.
Anyway, I hated it but I had said I would so I bagged up all his toys and went out to put them in the garbage (actually put them in the storage building so he could have them back later but did not tell him that). Next time we had trouble I told him he had two hours or he was getting a whipping (strange that he did not just bring me a paddle) two hours passed and I gave him a whipping and told him he had another two hours till I would be back to give him another. After about 30 minutes or so his room was clean.