clothes on the floor and empty drawers

Oh, the memories this brings back!! My boys did that and that's when they learned to do their own laundry. The deal was that I would wash the clothes that were in the basket but not on the floor. And if I found any clean clothing they would have to do their own. They did their own laundry maybe twice apiece then got neater! They were 7 and 8 at the time. Throwing things around in order to find something was a big problem when they were younger. Instead of a dresser, each of them had baskets that I put in a book-case like thing that I made of cinder blocks and plywood--just like my furniture when I got my first few apartments!! It was easy to remove the baskets and I labeled them with pictures as well as words. The mess was minimal and easily cleaned up once they found what they wanted and when they got older I taught them to fold their clothes neatly so they could find everything quickly. They make those basket thingies in nice looking furniture now. But I still probably would have gone the cheap route with the wood and cinder blocks!

I do not have kids, but this would definitely drive me nuts. I would trying to work with the older one if I could on stopping that habit while she's ahead. Of course I don't know how to go about doing that, my best guess would be to tell her if she doesn't stop doing that you will be picking her clothes out for her, but then she might like that. AHh, well good luck to you and hope you can get this sorted out!

That would drive me crazy. I'd have to tell them...if you don't put them away/in the drawers or laundry chute (dirty only) I'd have to say..."I'll keep your clothes. YOu check out an outfit, and if you want another outfit, you have to bring the dirty one to me and I'll give you a clean one." After a few times of that...I'd bet they'll get the picture. Tell them if they don't want to do it this way...here are the rules. I never had that problem with my kids...however.. I have been to my 32 year old daughters house and her bedroom and closet are always a total mess...clothes laying all over the place...but she does the work now so guess if she doesn't mind, why should I? But the thing is...she then gets mad at HER daugheter for leaving clothes laying around and a messy room! When mine were little I wanted them to have their own"space" so I didn't do to much about their rooms...that is their domain...if they want to be slobs...they cvan in their rooms only and it is not to be brought out of the room! Only thing I restricted is food/dishes in the rooms..was not allowed at all. I did allow a glass with a drink...however one day when I was doing dishes I thought...where are all the glasses? Turns out...they were in my daughters room...with mold and algea growing on the tops of the liquid left in the glass! No drinking in the room then was then the second rule. My son wasn't to messy but my daughter..she did finally get the point of a clean room and started doing better.

My 5 year old does the same thing. It has been very difficult to break her out of the habit. It actually took her getting hurt (not that I want her to) to realize that emptying the drawers and leaving the clothes on the floor is not a good thing. She would constantly do that and one day she reached down to get something and hit her head on the corner of the drawer. It hurt really bad and her head bled. We took her to the doctor and she was ok, but it was pretty scary. Since then, she takes the time to close the drawers. If that hadn't had happened, then I don't know what else would have worked. I think everything happens for a reason.

I have to present myself as guilty... Yes, I did that as a kid, and it made my mom crazy! I don't have any kids, but if I did, I sure as **** wouldn't rewash their clothes for no reason, because that 's just bad for the environment Good luck with the kids, and happy myLotting!

Sorry mom, I did it again. huhuhu This reminds me of how I'm doing back in elementary days. I always got scolded coz of these things you're saying. I am really guilty. I did it, several times till I got in Highschool. I truly appreciate my mom for bearing with me, and keeping me clean despite my very messy style and disposition. She never gave up on me, till i learned "how to" be organized and clean. I admire how you bear with your children. they'll get the hang out of it though. And they sure would appreciate how you're doing it every now and then. cleaning up their mess.. Bless you. chuyins

I have a 14 year old daughter who does this and it drives me crazy! I absolutely will not go into her room anymore. I make her do her own laundry and I make her clean anything in her room. I won't do it! I think that it is a sign of not having any pride for yourself and I do not like that.

I have a 2 1/2 yr old son. I have a daughter who will be eight in a few weeks. My son has the habit of emptying his hamper. My daughter will try on an outfit, decide she doesn't like it and go for something else. Some part of the original outfit is inevitably on the floor. My point is, you are not alone! Hang in there.

hi 3snugglebunnies my son used to do that when he was little too but my little brain damaged daughter was so cute, she would push stuff to one side then take out something , come to me and ask"this pretty for baby?" I do not know where she came up with that baby as she always called herself baby. U nless she heard me talking and I said no it was not Robbie it was the baby which was dumb of me as theyhwere only 11 months apart.I finally got her to understand she was lisa lisa rose. so she would ask am I pretty Lisa? And I would say" yed You are my pretty little girl" That would satify her. My son would throw clean and dirtyh clothes on the floor till I got so I made him lean how to use the washer in the wash room and he did, he did his own was. and he was careful not to wash his clean stuff too.He was such a slob as a kid bu now they tell me hes really a neat freak sure hope so.think this is some gene little boys must be born with. lol lol

Hi, 3SnuggleBunnies. I know that when my son comes home from school he always throws his clothes onto the floor. I had to get on him hard about this. So, now, he is starting to remember to put his clothes that he has just taken off of on the bed. I can't stand when he leaves his school clothes on the floor after taking them off. He may also do the same thing with his sleeping clothes too. I don't know why kids do what they do. Hopefully one day they will learn that it makes mom or dad's job much harder when the clothes are all mixed up.

You have revived a memory of me facing the same problem with 2 of my 3 sons and then the daughter too did the same thing. It was so maddening and I used to get really cross with them. I just couldn't understand it and they said that they were in a hurry. I used to take out their school clothes at night so they did not have to go into their drawers. They grew out of it though so don't go batty

Surprisingly my boys never really did that, but my daughter did and still does. She is forever mixing her dirty clothes with her clean clothes and it drives me insane! She is now 13 so she does a lot of her own laundry, however she ends up rewashing her clean clothes which not only wastes water, it also wastes laundry detergent. When she looks for clothes out of her drawers she will put them on her chair or on her bed then when she is ready to go to sleep apparently she just tosses all the clothes (clean and dirty) in her laundry hamper!

Kids could really be like that. They never bother to arrange them , because mommy is there to arrange it for them . However, i am lucky because our daughter grew up to be an independent and well behaved girl. I never encountered any incident like that, ever. Oh yes, it's because i assist her or if not the maid assist her always.

Yes my kids do the same thing. It drives me up the wall. Everything is tossed all over the room. I do not pick it up. I make them do it.

YET another reason I didn't want kids! My mother would've KILLED us!

My 11 year old has a bad habit of leaving a pile of clothes on the floor of his closet and then when I tell him to bring down his dirty clothes he brings down the clean too. I have started making him do his own laundry, so if he wants to make more work for himself by being lazy then that is on him. My 4 year old likes to put her dirty clothes back in her dresser at the end of the night if it is one of her favorite outfits, so she can try to sneak it back on the next day.

Ha ha,lovely child!In fact this is the nature of the child.My child in hours,also is such.Of course, as parents were sure very angry,but then think about,not be to feel their children's cute? Happy every day!

Thankfully mine are grown now and do their own laundry and up keep of clothing, but ohhhh I will not forget the wonderful good ole days when all drawers were empty and room was quite a mess. Forget about asking them to clean it up because that meant put everything in the hamper for re-washing. It was a never ending deal, but promise you it will get better someday, until then you will have hair pulling moments as I too was ragged each time it happened. lol