Herpethian t1_iuf6dxk wrote
The toddler would get really overwhelmed trying to clean her tornado of a room and end up just sitting in filth and crying while her mom yelled at her that if the toys weren't off the floor they were going in the garbage. Really stressful situation. So I would get a chair and sit with her while she cleaned. I'd have her pick something up, anything up, and have her bring it to me. Then I'd ask her where it goes, and tell her to put it there.
Eventually the little one got the point that the concept of cleaning is just picking something up and putting it where it goes. One item at a time. Then I'd make a show of mopping, vacuuming, and wiping down the walls.
CorpusCollapsum419 t1_iujevfp wrote
This is the way. My mom used the “it’s all going in the trash if not” way. And it just stresses me to the point I couldn’t think. It all seemed like too much. Eventually as a teen I kept my room super tidy. But not because of her. Because I liked it that way, and had figured out how to do it that way. She prides herself in the fact her parenting worked. It didn’t. I had to make a conscious effort to get my room the way it was but before I had no freakin clue how to bring about a “conscious effort”. Was actually MTV cribs that got me into it. I wanted my space to look like theirs
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