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Teens’ Messy Bedrooms - to clean or not to clean?

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Messy is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the messy.   Steve Maraboli Is there any teenager in this world that keeps a neat, orderly and tidy room without being nagged, commanded, bribed or threatened to do so? We manage well enough to get our children to keep their rooms clean when they are little but the moment they reach their teenage years, it seems like all sense leave their heads because their rooms look like disaster zones. What is it with them? What is so darn hard about keeping their rooms in order? How can they possibly live in a room which has an unmade bed, clothes strewn everywhere, opened drawers dangling dangerously, closet doors flung ajar, dirty clothes in growing piles, clean laundry still in the baskets waiting to be put away, books and stationery scattered everywhere, discarded drinking glasses and empty plates taking pride of place within the    four walls which looks like