did your kids keep their rooms clean and at what age will they start to clean ?

This almost seems age appropriate behavior and is probably one fight you will never win. All you can sometimes do is close the door and forbid food in the room, at least with no food you will not get vermin and insects in there. I have heard one parent that had the door removed until the room is presentable, but I do not know how effective this is.

Kids learn from their parents. If the parent is clean and tidy with their room, then chances are the child will be also. If you are a slop and allow your child to be the same until he/she is 17 - God help Yon! There is no way on Earth you can train that child to be clean and tidy. This is not about laziness, it more about family tradition, and life style. All families have different standards. Its as simple as that!

I and my ex husband heve come from mothers that didn't keep clean houses. but I learned to be fairly clean about the house. My grandmother would streighten out my and my brother's drawers( we lived with her for a time. My drawer was always a mess and his very neat. We were 8(me and him 5. I have raised 4 kids of my own and 2 are neat and 2 are clutter bugs. I have also raised 2 grandchildren. When my grandson was s,all he kept his room fairly good but his sister older was always a mess. They are now 20 and 22(we live together)His room looks like a trash dump and just in the last month she has really cleaned up her room and started keeping it clean. I tried once to shame him by asking one of his friends about their room and his friend said his room looked the same. It is a thing that you will struggle with until they are ready to clean it and keep it clean. I am just now getting him to clean up after himself in the kitchen. He does his own laundry. So I believe it will come in time.(I hope)

yup he should be old enough to keep it clean! My kids did thioer bedsand pick up from the age of 5 son was a little faster doing it than daughter but when she cleaned she cleaned it would sparkle he probablem was clothes all over lol

I think you have taken the right stand on your own son. He should be made responsible to clean his mess and put his room in order. I admire you for being firm. © ronaldinu 2008

my kids was mess and did ot want to clean it seem the more i talked the worse they got they have gotten a little better there is still room for improvenment.

my child is just two years old but i can see now that my wife is giving him not so hard chores. such as putting back his toys and fixing his pillows. i know as he grows older my wife will let him fold his clothes and eventually clean or share some chores. i too make a share with the chores so i think i am a good example

yes indeed specially mu boy. He is still 11 years old but he will not made his bed every time he wake up in the morning. Just jump down from bed and left if messy. I always tell him to even fold his sheets but he is like deaf. Maybe this is normal with boys. I also have a 9 year old girl and I taught her how to clean, wash dishes and sweep the floor. It's really important for our kids to know how to keep their things in place. Boys are really nasty.. hahahaha.. it;s just nothing to them. Yes they are not embarrassed to let their friends see their nasty room.

I thought my son aged 15 and my daughter aged 28 are the best in keeping their room always in a mess.I also have done all the possible tactics so they will learn lessons in keeping their room even putting their things in place.If I clean their room I almost want to lock it so they will not occupy and make it messy again.We have the same problem with my two children.There are really people who can stand that mess it's a good thing my two other children is not like them at least I have someone to help me when they were still with us.But now that they have the family of their own and the two messy people is left with us I wish to leave them alone in the house.If your son is living like a dog mine is living like a pig I'm also sick and tired of them.Hope they will have the life of their own as soon as possible.

I have already 5 year old son. As early as now, i am teaching him simple things to organize things inside the room. I think If you teach him the responsibility, he will learn how to keep his room clean. At the age of 17, he should be responsible and mature enough to clean his own room, or help you out with the household chores.

my kids are 9 and 11, and their room is really a mess... im tired of telling them to atleast put their toys and books in their proper places... but it seems they would only do it, when i am very furious... so most of the time, im still the one doing it...

I think children are all the same every where. You can't live with them but you be lonely too without them. Have you try talking to him. Consult him on the cleaniness of his room. Am sure with proper and strict consultation - he will improve his ways of living. Good luck

i think a 17 year old has the capability to keep their room clean but not the motivation, usually! children as young as 5 should be taught to put their toys, books, clothing, etc. where they belong. at school they probably have their own bin for their school items and their teacher probably teaches them put toys up after playtime so they should be able to behave the same way at home. hopefully, the lessons they learn will carry on into young adulthood.

I have not have any children now. When I was a child, I began to clean my own roon when I was 12 or 13 years old. At that time our family moved to a new house and I had my own room. I love my room, so I clean it every one or two days. I think is good to make children to clean their room as a habit.

My son doesnt keep his room clean. He does clean it once a week but he is only 4 1/2 years old so he normally destroys it again the next day. Then the same thing happens the next week.

I try to get my kids to keep their room clean. The youngest is 8, and she too has to clean her room. We have in the past told the kids if they do not clean their room they will lose everything in it. And we have had to do this, we took everything but the bed and dressers out. No toys, t.v.'s, no games no nothing. Completely striped them of everything. They have learned for the most part to keep them clean.

I am insiting my childrens to do their clean their rooms, cloths and their bed rooms etc. I startd to make them do it by the age of 8 itself. Now they are in the age of 14 and 10 and they do all the works in the house and also help for cooking also. Making them acquestomed to do all the works will make the children more capable as well as to adjust any situation and to manage things.

Do I ever! I have a 15 year old and I have to constantly stay on him about his room! I swear he could live in a garbage dump! I have to keep my bedroom clean always! It has to be clean where I sleep and my kids are the oppisite? Clothes everywhere, i dont know how they tell what is clean and what is dirty? Dirty dishes crammed under their bed and candy wrappers and such everywhere! It is just disgusting! But since school started they have been doing better, My 15 year old has to keep his room clean if he wants to gp anywhere for the weekend and my two younger kids get 5 bucks every friday just for keeping their room clean. Its working so far.

I think that most every parent has this problem with their kids at some point. My kids are 11, 9, and 5 and they are responsible for keeping their own rooms clean. The way i get them to do this is not allowing them special privileges until the room is clean. My kids also have other chores around the house like picking up and taking all dirty clothes to the laundry room, loading the dishwasher, etc. I think this helps them to be more responsible. I don't think that him not cleaning his room really says anything about him except that he is lazy and probably does have better things to do with his time than clean his room. I think this is probably normal for a 17 year old boy.

i guess i'm lucky with my kids. my daughter's 14 and she keeps her room neat and tidy all the time. my son is 12 and you would have to remind him fron time to time but he wont complain and he would clean his room when told.