We have a room in our home. An awful, terrible room.
The room of one of our children.
This room is a disgusting mess of clothes, food, dirty dishes and more. We have tried a variety of techniques to try to get to a space where this doesn’t happen. We have tried threats and punishments, sweet cajoling, matter of fact conversations, straight up bribery.
Our record of cleanliness in this part of the house rarely exceeds 36 hours, and has never reached the 72 hour threshold. This even after the rest of the family has spent a weekend working together to clean this space.
So we are appealing to you, our friends and readers. How do we convince a particular twelve year old to keep the room clean?
What do you do? Do you just clean it yourself? Is there some magic trick that works for you? Mesmerism?
Do we need to call on Milla Jovovich? Or Martha Stewart? Help!