childrens bedrooms

My kids clean their own for the most part. But their idea of cleaning and mine are VERY different. (ages 7-11) We have 5 kids, 4 boys and 1 girl. 2 boys in one room, 2 boys in the other, and my girl has her own. They "clean" their rooms about once a week. one of them does really good, the others, well.... So, once a month, I go in and clean it myself. And then they start looking for something and it is gone. They should have cleaned it themself. I usually end up with at least 1 trash bad between all 3 rooms when im done, sometimes more. One of the rooms (boys) never stays clean for long. You would think as much as I toss, that it would stay clean.

I clean my childrens room for them. Its the only way it will get done (lol) but they are 5 and 2. Pretty soon they will be doing it theirselves. I cant see doing it for teens.

I did clean my sons rooms but I still have my youngest living with me , He has CP but he is really quite able to do his room , he is very untidy and it used to annoy me when it got messy , Now I give hi his privacy and we do it together now and again and sometimes he does it for himself , (HE did it last week without me asking lol ) so things are looking up xx

Kids should Clean their rooms by their Own, But if they are not good at it, Parents could help them do this.

When my daughter was 4 and under I did the cleaning for her but once she hit 5 it became her job. I mean we do a lot of cleaning together but it is mostly up to her. If I have to go in and clean it myself her stuff gets thrown away and she doens't want that to happen. It only took once for her to learn that I was serious about throwing her stuff away. We try to make it fun for her to clean like timing her or racing, stuff like that. I think to a lot of parents it is too much of a pain to get their child to do the cleaning so they do it themselves. It is sad but I think it is true.

My children are taught as soon as they are able to understand the concept of putting things back to clean up after themselves. It's a long on-going process when they are little but if you help them and make a game of it they love clean up time. My teen cleans his own room and has other chores to do around the house as well. It's a parents reponsibility to teach a child the life skills they will need when they are out on their own.

Well I know for us it's about half and half. She will pick up some of it but not very well. She knows though if it's on the floor we'll throw it out so she keeps the important stuff up. Now she cleaned it on her own very well the other day. Think she's starting to realize how important it is to keep it clean. Of course when I was her age I didn't have a clean room either. So I can be a bit understanding on it.