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<blockquote data-quote="KFld" data-source="post: 86444" data-attributes="member: 2442"><p>I think it all depends on the kid. I remember those days with my difficult child so well. It was so exhausting and so much easier just to give up most of the time and do it myself. I never thought this kid would be capable of cleaning his own room or functioning on his own.</p><p></p><p>Well guess what?? He now does all that on his own and I'm even sure how much I can atribute to what I tried to teach him. I think he learned most of it in the soberhouse. You couldn't leave a glass in the sink without getting a hard time from your other roomates, because that was leaving your responsibilites for someone else.</p><p></p><p>Now when I go to his apartment, it's always neat and clean and from what his girlfriend tells me, he's the one who does most, if not all, of the cleaning. </p><p></p><p>I was actually a slob when I was growing up. You couldn't walk through my room because my floor was covered in so much stuff. Now I'm a total neat freak and everything has to be in it's place.</p><p></p><p>So worth the aggrivation or not?? I'm not sure. But my difficult child did learn these skills somewhere. Maybe from watching me do it for him :smile:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KFld, post: 86444, member: 2442"] I think it all depends on the kid. I remember those days with my difficult child so well. It was so exhausting and so much easier just to give up most of the time and do it myself. I never thought this kid would be capable of cleaning his own room or functioning on his own. Well guess what?? He now does all that on his own and I'm even sure how much I can atribute to what I tried to teach him. I think he learned most of it in the soberhouse. You couldn't leave a glass in the sink without getting a hard time from your other roomates, because that was leaving your responsibilites for someone else. Now when I go to his apartment, it's always neat and clean and from what his girlfriend tells me, he's the one who does most, if not all, of the cleaning. I was actually a slob when I was growing up. You couldn't walk through my room because my floor was covered in so much stuff. Now I'm a total neat freak and everything has to be in it's place. So worth the aggrivation or not?? I'm not sure. But my difficult child did learn these skills somewhere. Maybe from watching me do it for him [img]:smile:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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