Teen rooms are the bane of mothers everywhere. It’s not even like when they were pre-teens. In those days, if their rooms were in a mess, you could shout at them and get them to clean it up, and, barring that, you could go in and do it. However, when it comes to teens and their rooms you’re dealing with something completely different entirely.
True, you could go and ask them to clean up their rooms. And yes, you could shout at them a little, if you wanted to, or go and clean the room yourself. However, that’s when all hell breaks loose. Teen rooms are private places and not to be entered into unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Let Heaven help anyone who tries to tidy up the mess on the carpet. It was there for a good reason and you just had absolutely no right whatsoever to touch it. At least, that will be what most teens will argue and, you being the patient, loving mother that you are, will just roll your eyes skywards and explain that the pizza and grubby, old shirt thing just don’t work well together and that you were just rescuing them from impending plague.
Your teens will in turn roll their eyes and protest loudly, not to exaggerate, it wasn’t about to grow legs and walk off on its own, and if it was then wouldn’t that make a great science project. So, you keep cleaning and they keep putting things back. And so ends the story, and you’re right back to square one.
Of course, one way that you could deal with this catastrophe is to redecorate. Teen rooms might be sanctums of peace for them, but even they would like it if you gave their rooms a great makeover.
That’s not to say that the room will be any cleaner once you’ve finished and they’ve moved back in, but at least you’ll get to see the inside of the room long enough to tide you over for the next few years. That is unless you’re thinking of redoing their rooms every year.
But now you come to your next problem. Since teens are notoriously different when it comes to their rooms. You might find that your teen rooms are decorated quite differently from what you expected and what you would have done first of all. This is where a comprise should be struck, if your teen wants black for his room, then say you want another colour too that will offset the black.
Be prepared to give in a little on your ideas no matter how silly their ideas seem. After all, they’re only a teen once and they will look back with horror on what bad taste they had.
It is your duty as a parent to allow them these moments in their lives that they can look back on with mock horror, and ban their kids from doing the same to their own teen rooms.
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