hahahaha i know.. i am a single mom i get that so well. My 16 year old is a huge reason i cut myself so much slack. I just cant, with work and him, and the dog, and everything else. At 16 he has started doing stuff he was doing when he was 4 like leave watermelon rinds all over the house. KIDS! :) I think he kind of does understand the nice feeling that clear tables and clear counters gives .. but he just is too spacy to help maintain that idea haha
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I don't think I want to imagine my son at 16, I can barely comprehend that he is already 4 years old. We try to teach him to clean up but... well you know how that goes. (like food in the couch form wayyyy to long ago) But I know it can be accomplished. My mother instilled tidiness and morning choirs into me at a fairly young age and I hope to pass that down to him because, I belive that that is the reason I am such a morning person now.
I read a wonderful article about how to ingrain the chores into the kids... I wish I had understood "teach kids to help" in this way when my son was little! Here is the article...it's about including them in a real way, not a token way ,and they will get the intrinsic reward of togetherness and doing chores will be a part of connecting with the adults...
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/616928895/how-to-get-your-kids-to-do-chores-without-resenting-it
I'll definitely check that out. New perspectives and idea are alwasy welcome. - thanks