Dear Blake,
My 11-year-old son drives me crazy because his room is always a mess. He leaves clothes in a heap on the floor, and then wears them, wrinkled. Every surface in the room (his desk, drawers the bed, his bean bag chair) is covered with papers, toys, school stuff, chips, wrappers. I go through cycles of yelling at him and threatening to take away something he loves unless he cleans it up. A month or two later, I can hardly walk in there, and we’re right back where we started. What else can I do?
Signed, Joi
From Tucson, Arizona
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Dear Joi,
Millions of mothers can relate to the issue you have with your son. But it doesn’t mean that you should let that little piglet get away with this. Here are some ideas I think you should consider. If he goes to school with his room filthy, ground him for the rest of the day and he has to remain in his room, after you’ve placed in it an open bag of fertilizer. And then warn him that if he opens a wind to get some fresh air, you’ll suspend his allowance too. Or, you can put some rats in his room and tell him this is what his disgusting standards attract. You can get these disease carrying rodents in any big city, and you can probably get a few homeless people to help you catch some if you buy them a bottle of wine. You can purchase a fire extinguisher and torch his clothes where they are piled in his room, and you can douse the flames just before they reach the ceiling. It is very important that you get this resolved before your son gets married, because if you don’t, his wife will be blaming you, unless she also has the cleaning habits that are so vile that they can make a maggot gag. I hope this helps.
Blake
Hard to do this here but ok: Millions of mothers can relate to the issue you have with your son. But it doesn’t mean that you should let that little piglet get away with this. Here are some ideas I think you should consider. If he goes to school with his room filthy, ground him for the rest of the day and he has to remain in his room, after you’ve placed in it an open bag of fertilizer. And then warn him that if he opens a wind to get some fresh are, you’ll suspend his allowance too. Or, you can put some rats in his room and tell this is what his disgusting standards attract. You can get these disease carrying rodents in any big city, and you can probably get a few homeless people to help you catch some if you buy them a bottle of wine. You can purchase a fire extinguisher and torch his clothes where they are piled in his room, and you can douse the flames just before they reach the ceiling. It is very important that you get this resolved before your son gets married, because if you don’t, his wife will blaming you, unless she also has the cleaning habits that are so vile that they can make a maggot gag. I hope this helps. Line 5…Don’t begin a sentence with and Line 6…fresh AIR Line 7… Tell HIM this is… Line 8… You don’t need a comma with the word and Line..13 His wife will BE blaming you omit the at the end