I poured the vino at 4 today. Hey, it’s 5 in Manhattan. Who’s going to argue with me? And I’ve got PMS to boot. Again, I ask you. Who’s going to argue? Certainly not my Big Strong Man…(he’s faaaaarrr smarter than that, I can assure you.)
So, yeah, we’re on Day Two of our TRCD (that’s Teen Room Cleaning Drama for you rookies out there…) Princess in Waiting, almost 17, offered to help her younger sister with this onerous task yesterday, but she got turned down. Can you believe that? If someone offered to help me clean my house, I’d be falling all over myself accepting their kind offer (other than the fact that they’d see how the house really looks before it gets cleaned up…). I mean, this is her sister, the Organizational Princess Herself. This is the child who helps ME organize stuff. She’s the one who helps ME decide what to keep and what to throw away. She could run the show on Clean Sweep and How Do I Look. And Teen in Line turned her down?
Why, you ask?
‘Cuz’ she doesn’t want to do any work, of course.
‘Cuz’ she’d actually have to do the task that’s been assigned to her.
So, last night, at 11 pm, when she still hadn’t completed the task at hand, Big Strong Daddy told Teen in Line that she could do nothing else until her room was picked up. Period. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. End of story.
For those of you who don’t fully get the picture, that translates in a teen’s world to:
- No TV
- No computer/Facebook/email
- No Playstation/handheld games/Guitar Hero, etc.
- No MP3
- No Phone
- No going anywhere with friends
- No FUN, You’re DONE
So, this morning, lucky me, I got to go to work, and never was I happier to do so. I arrived home this afternoon to what, you might ask? A sparkling clean room?
Nope. Barely started.
She was playing a game with her older sister. Scrabble. Apparently, that wasn’t on the list of forbidden items above…Good God in heaven. It’s 4 pm, and I’m drinking.
Teen in Line has now discovered what’s good for her and has accepted Princess in Waiting’s offer of help to get the overwhelming project of cleaning her room finished. She now has about 1 1/2 hours until her Big Strong Daddy gets home.
Tune in tomorrow for another installment of:
As the Teen World Turns…
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I love this As the Teen World Turns! 4pm is JackOClock in my book. Especially coming home to lack of change! Hang in there.
Ouch, Daisy_mom. And I thought I was tough.
I guess we’re more attached to our “stuff”!
TP
One of my teens cleaned his room to perfection the other day without being asked. The younger one’s room resembles news footage of a trailer park after the big hurricane plows through.
Teen in Line’s stuff, meet garbage bag.
Garbage bag, meet the dumpster.
Problem solved.
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