The 5 Absolute Musts for Getting Your Kids to Clean Their Rooms
The 5 absolute musts for getting your kids to clean their rooms..
Parent: I can’t believe that she just said that. You mean there is hope for me ?There is a way to get my kids rooms clean?
Grandma: I’m a grandma, trust me on this one.
P: Well let’s get going, already…
G: All-righty then…
#1. The first and most important thing you need… Are you ready for this? I bet any money you will argue with me.
P: Get going, I don’t have all day. I have to go change the baby.
G: Ok, #1. The absolute most important thing all parents need is a SENSE OF HUMOR. Without a sense of humor you are just eating yourself up inside. Without a sense of humor, you are heading for crash and burn, you’re just needing something to complain about.
I am a get- it-done kind of gal, if I have a problem, I want to find the answer and get on with my life, playing, having fun, gardening, going to the beach. Who can go to the beach with all that ____ piled up in your kids room and in your brain. So dump the ____ and get a sense of humor. I saw them at Sear’s on sale last week.
P: HMMMM
G: #2. The next thing you need is a Bull-Dozer. Now I know you can figure out why you would need a bulldozer.
P: To bulldoze everything in the room out the window.
G: Good guess but not quite. You need a bulldozer to keep the kids busy watching while you get in there and start the “Cleaning their room” process. Trust me on this one too, those kids will sit for hours just watching that bulldozer. You can get some laundry done too : )
P: HMM, that wouldn’t be so bad. Kinda like the BULLDOZERBABYSITTER.
G: 3. The third thing you will need is a cup of coffee.
P: OK that is enough, why the heck would I need a cup of coffee?
G: Because, the kids are watching the bulldozer, you have plenty of time to get things done, get a cup of coffee and watch the bulldozer with them for a few minutes, take a break. OH btw, did I tell you that the bulldozer operator is digging a swimming pool in your back yard until you let him know you are ready to have him bulldoze the kid’s room?
P: Yikes!!!! Wait!!! I didn’t…
G: Don’t sweat the small stuff.
G: OK on with # 4.
You will need a camera.
P: FOR WHAT?##$&*#@&&
G: So you can take before pictures of your kids room and after pictures so you can have something to compare it to. OH< yes, take pictures of the bulldozer too because when you and your husband are 80 and sittin’ on the front porch on a warm, sunny day, just a rockin’…, you will both be lookin’ at the pictures and just a laughin’…, even though you don’t have your teeth in yet, just a laughin’ at that time when Junior, who is now the lead scientist at the worlds largest French National Center for Scientific Research, needed his room cleaned and all you could think of was to hire that bulldozer to dig a hole big enough for a swimming pool in the back yard, just so you could have a cup of coffee and watch him keepin’ the kids busy.
lol, lol, lol
P: Hey, that grandma never got to #5. What do you suppose that one was????????
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