Untidy children?

My children are still quite young and the only realy chores that they have is picking up all of their toys when they are finished playing with them. If they do not i will and do tend to throw them away. i tell them that it is not my responsibility and that it is theirs! Surprisingly enough it seems to work for me!!!

we do not give any money to my niece for her to clean up her things. especially all the toys she scattered around the house. we started training her to know how to clean when she was 1, now that she is 4, she is not hard to follow in cleaning up her things.

I started with my children at a very early age on keeping things tidy. Since the age of 1 Year I started. Before bed we would take the time and clean the room TOGETHER, singing the clean up song! To this day with my youngest 2, 4,6 and my oldest 10 I rarely ever have to look at a messy room. They get up in the morning for school and leave with clean rooms and beds made and most of the time they dont have to be asked to do it. I am so proud of them. Its just something they grew up doing and now is a habit.

I saw the most brilliant technique used by one of the nannies on Nanny 911 the other day. She was dealing with unruly triplets who (amongst other things!) wouldnt clean up their rooms... So she went marching in there with a black bag and threw everything on the floor in there. The kids were devastated but those rooms were clean from then on! After two weeks of good behaviour they got the items back. I think its a great way to make a point if you havent had the foresight to teach them to clean up from an early age. It really gets their full attention!

children usually not clean never their room they always have to be hin their parents

When my daughter was 2 years old... walking and able to understand that we had to pick up toys after she played with them. i used it as a game. and she's now 4 years old and she'll clean anything that she can. sometimes she even throws away my papers i leave on the table...

I wish a dollar would work for my teenage daughter. I have even threatened her with a garbage bag. Nothing works. I can't go clean it because if I do there wouldn't be anything left. LOL. When you find out let me know please.

Unfortunately, our daughter is not motivated by money. We have many arguments over the condition of her room. I've told her I do not care how she decorates her room, as long as it is clean. She says it is her room and if she likes it dirty then so be it. I don't think so! I have to threaten to take stuff away, which she doesn't believe me, then it turns ugly when I take something away. You would think, after the past few years of arguing about it, she would know I'm not bluffing.