I think Melissa is getting the hang of this. She only spent all of Saturday morning "cleaning," and did it right away when I announced I was going to the park in 15 minutes and anyone with a clean room was welcome to come. There were no tantrums.
Matthew had about ten minutes of cleaning to do. He got it done in time for the park but not in time for break dancing. He was predictably mad about that. Maybe next week. (We went out to dinner after gymnastics practice Friday, and I saw an "urban dance studio" near the restaurant and stopped in.)
Melissa may actually be better about cleaning her room than Matthew now, both in terms of keeping it semi-sanitary and in terms of drama for the weekly hose-out. She's easily more stubborn than her brother so I am surprised by this development.
Me: "Maybe we need to move more of Matthew's stuff into the common area."
Rachel: "What we need is to throw more stuff away. Tops. Unsharpened pencils. Pieces of robots and legos and medals and odd coins and marbles. Where do you put stuff like that?"
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