I got fed up last night at about 11 pm. It happens occasionally, because I try to let my daughter do the right thing and she just doesn’t seem to want to but I keep allowing her the opportunity to do it because that’s how we learn to be responsible.
Well, you see my daughters share a room and I don’t expect the baby to clean my 10 yr olds mess (11 in 16 more days) I’m not even getting this out properly since I’m only half awake, lol.
I have 3 children aged 12 yrs, 10 yrs, and 9 months. I have baby proofed the house. My older daughter seems to think that the room she shares is exempt from needing everything picked up off the floor. We’ve been fighting her for years to keep her room clean to begin with trying every trick in the book to get it to be so but it comes down to her unwillingness to do the right thing.
She lost everything that was on the floor. I bagged it ALL up into trash bags because that’s what she must think her stuff is and took it away. She has to earn each bag of clothes and toys back by completing one of her chores. So far this morning she’s earned 1 back by emptying the dishwasher and has had to go through and sort everything in that bag and put it up properly. Now she has to finish the floor by vacuuming and getting all her little jewelry making bits and pieces picked up, period. I mean she knows that we’re sick of stepping on them, heck, she’s said she is sick of stepping on them but still hadn’t bothered to pick them up [sigh]
Needless to say she’s not happy with me. But after finding her the perfect gift last night that cost me over $50 (and mind you we didn’t really have that but it was the absolute PERFECT thing to get her and I hardly ever find something that she would actually like) I’m darn well going to make sure that it has somewhere safe to go. Ok, I got her the Fur Real Friends Squawkers she has a collection of these Fur Real Friends that in the past have been purchased for her by my ex inlaws and such, well, it was my darn turn. See not only does she love the FRF’s but she also loves parrots and has this one that she picked up on a field trip to St Augustine that sits on her shoulder 
and of course her 3rd favorite thing is Billy the Big Mouth Bass.
So, I dunno, I lost my wind here because I had to go deal with the baby again, lol. I just think she should clean her room.
