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How can I get my kids to stop treating my Living Room and bedroom like it’s their playroom?
I live in a fairly large home. My kids have their own playroom upstairs and they have plenty of room for their toys and “stuff” in their bedrooms. Their playroom has a DVD, TV, stereo, couch, toys, etc. and yet they still insist on “hanging out” in my LR, the nicest room in my house. Subsequently I am constantly picking up and cleaning up after them and it’s making me nuts! I have new furniture and my oldest has already ripped the upholstery! They leave fingerprints everywhere and toys everywhere. As far as my BR goes, that too seems to have become their playroom as well. They leave toys, games, stuffed animals, artwork, etc. all over the place and I no longer have a place to call my own. They have zero respect for our nice living spaces and I am at my wits end. Any suggestions on how to “retrain” them to hang out upstairs before my LR and BR are ruined?
You need to set them down and let them know they have a playroom and that is were the toys are to stay and if you find any toys in you LR OR BR then they will never see them again and you are giving them to goodwill or something but really just but them were they cant find them. that is what my did with us when were were little. but you need to make sure you stick to it
