Teenage boy funk-smell
Kathsgrdn
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Comments (33)I got my first job when I was 14 working at Dairy Queen. My parents had a Dodge Coronet they bought new in 1968 when I was 2. When I was 10, they parked it next to the garage and there it sat for 4 years. I was on the swing set, looking at the car, thinking I would need a car pretty soon. This was in 1980. I strolled over to my dad who was working in the yard, and started peppering him with questions. Will it run? What needs to be fixed? How much will it cost? After he answered, I told him I was going to get a job, and then we could fix it. He laughed and said ok. I went and begged for a job. I got it and saved every dime I made. By the end of summer, I had 10 $100 bills. I took it to my dad and asked if we could start working on the car. We did. It was ready to go in a year. To this day, I have never been without a job, sometimes two. And, yes, we still have the Dodge and it is still beautiful. And, yes, many kids today don't know the value of hard work or the value of money. Too many parents hand them whatever they want, whenever they want. Too many are spoiled and lazy. I made my daughters get their own jobs to pay for the things they wanted. Hard work never hurt anyone....See MoreDo you clean your teenagers rooms?
Comments (26)I don't remember exactly what age my son was when I shut the door and said "you deal with it." If laundry wasn't in the laundry room, it didn't get done. If the room smelled because of leftover food, it was over the garage at the other end of the house and I didn't need to deal with it. Nuff said. He is now in his forties, and his family goes on a cleaning spree every so often, and cleans thoroughly. I don't live there, and he and his family are comfortable, so I have no problem. I am not so neat myself (though I'm trying to be better) so have no room to talk. My stepdaughter was raised the same way, and has the best, healthiest, relationship with her three adult sons. If I had cleaned the kids' rooms they would have been furious with me and we all would have had stress we didn't need....See MoreAt Wit's End With Teenager's Room
Comments (37)I agree, very interesting topic! My kids aren't yet teenagers (DS is 7, DD is 10) but we have the messy room issue already. Really, it's just they're not in the habit of picking up toys and stuff anywhere (we don't have a nightly routine about this because with both parents working full-time, we try to spend time with the kids on more meaningful things like reading together). The house is not a disaster, but it's not neat as a pin either. Sometimes that bothers me, sometimes not. I wanted to make the point that I view it as part of my parental duties to teach the kids strategies for dealing with a room that's "a complete disaster". Strategies like, don't worry about putting each item away as you pick it up. Start by categorizing things into piles: clean clothes here, dirty clothes here, cars here, books here, etc, etc. Then deal with each pile in turn. It helps organize the stuff and organize the mind. When I participate with my kids in this endeavor, they don't feel so "alone" in what's viewed as an unmanageably big task, and I'm teaching by example that cleaning up is really gratifying in the end. I had so many gigantic battles over my room with my dad when I was a teen. It was all about control, and I remember telling him that if it bothered him, I would keep my door closed. His answer was that I was not allowed to keep the door closed. He is a dear man and I love him a lot, but I have never quite recovered from these "epic battles." I was a straight-A student, had good friends, went to church ... the whole "good kid" shebang. And yet, he HAD to fight with me over my room, which was not unsanitary or anything. I am DETERMINED that I will not perpetuate this with my kids, so I thank you all for your posts to this thread because I've really learned a lot. I will continue to teach them that there is value in having things put in their place, that there are strategies for making an unmanageable task manageable, and that sometimes having a place that's not cluttered helps unclutter your mind. But ultimately, I will take your words to heart and try to remember that they need a place to call their own, which is within their control, and that a cluttered room won't ruin them. It didn't ruin me! :-)...See MoreCrackhouse (Teenager's room) - OT
Comments (31)Students nowadays are so..I'm not sure they're really clueless btw..maybe they choose to be clueless. As not to put any effort. If somebody picks up their mess even better. They're supposedly really smart young people, ambitious and responsible enough as to pursue their education. Most time, they should be fine with figuring very basic stuff that dwelling and co-existence requires. I spent 4 years in dorms myself..individual rooms could get messy yes..but if anyone of us even would dare to not clean the kitchen after they cook and eat? I can't imagine what would happen. We had maybe 10 rooms on each floor, one kitchen one shower..so say 20 people? Other 19 would corner that one offender and make him understand in a sec. Some things do land on you with age and experience When teenager I would try to not dress weather appropriate, because most coats were ugly, hats I disliked..also wasn't considered "cool" so it's much nicer to get that virus or cold when somebody brings you tea and medicine and makes you chicken soup and whatnot while in dorms I quickly understood being sick is not what it was anymore. No one's fretting, no one has time to worry about you, they don't want to hear you coughing, and you need to get yourself to that doctor, get the prescription, go to a pharmacy while all feverish..hold your cough..and still be ready for these mid terms while at that. Even if you have many nice friends around. So I can't tell you how fast I started dressing properly for the weather after I had this experience of getting sick not as a child anymore but as somebody who lived by herself....See MoreKathsgrdn
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