I know I shouldn't let it get so messy. But by the time i think about having her clean up her room its usually bedtime. And that is when she plays with her toys. So I don't feel like there is a point in having her clean up at bedtime, when A) I want her to go to sleep and B) I know she'll just have the room messy by morning anyway.
Well since the girls and I are leaving in a week and half to spend some time with Nana in Arizona I am trying really hard to leave Jake with a spotless house.
So it meant Sydney was going to clean her room. I told her I would not help her. She made the mess and she was old enough to clean it up.
I really need to organize her toys and put away the ones she doesn't play with anymore, so I told her all I wanted her to do was put all her toys off the floor and onto the table or in the box. And it has taken 1 1/2 DAYS.
She got monkey taken away yesterday. Which she only cried a little that night. And monkey is her favorite. I thought that would do more for her. She also ended up in time out twice.
So this morning I told her I was going to take away bunny if her room wasn't clean when dad came home for lunch. It wasn't. So she gave me bunny, and willingly too. So then I told her she couldn't eat until everything was off the floor. But instead she plays with every item she picks up and then forgets that she was supposed to be cleaning. So and hour and a half after daddy came home, she finally accomplished that. (And dad even helped for ten minutes while he was here.)
I lost my temper a couple times. And I need to work on that.
And somehow show Sydney that ten minutes and she can have everything picked up.
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