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<blockquote data-quote="Christy" data-source="post: 149059" data-attributes="member: 225"><p>Don't you find youself wondering, why is everything so hard? I agree that it's a pick your battle kind of thing but at the same time, you don't want to have to clean up after him constantly and you'd like to help to develop some level of personal responsibitity for his stuff. We have suffered some huge meltsdowns over this very issue. Is it worth it? I'm not sure. Sometimes, I let it go and sometimes I insist on it getting done-this can be ugly at times. I just asked my difficult child to pick up the few toys that were in the family room so that we could go outside. Instead, he is in the process of dumping bins in order to find just the thing to play with. He is not angry at the moment but will be when it is time to clean everything up. Isn't this a logical consequence of making a mess? So when the time comes, I will probably weather the meltdown to prove the point that he needs to clean up his things. Will it help? I doubt it but I am not going to clean up his messes constantly just to keep the peace. So difficult child just comes in and says he's ready to go out. I ask if the family room is clean. He yells and stomps off saying that he is tired of being told what to do. Now he is back to playing in the family room. I suppose round 2 will commence as soon as he tires of what he is playing with now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christy, post: 149059, member: 225"] Don't you find youself wondering, why is everything so hard? I agree that it's a pick your battle kind of thing but at the same time, you don't want to have to clean up after him constantly and you'd like to help to develop some level of personal responsibitity for his stuff. We have suffered some huge meltsdowns over this very issue. Is it worth it? I'm not sure. Sometimes, I let it go and sometimes I insist on it getting done-this can be ugly at times. I just asked my difficult child to pick up the few toys that were in the family room so that we could go outside. Instead, he is in the process of dumping bins in order to find just the thing to play with. He is not angry at the moment but will be when it is time to clean everything up. Isn't this a logical consequence of making a mess? So when the time comes, I will probably weather the meltdown to prove the point that he needs to clean up his things. Will it help? I doubt it but I am not going to clean up his messes constantly just to keep the peace. So difficult child just comes in and says he's ready to go out. I ask if the family room is clean. He yells and stomps off saying that he is tired of being told what to do. Now he is back to playing in the family room. I suppose round 2 will commence as soon as he tires of what he is playing with now. [/QUOTE]
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