Clean Your Room!

Hello!

               Many kids are yelled at by their parents for various reasons throughout the course of their childhood. Most kids get yelled at to take out the trash, do your homework, eat your vegetables, and much more commonly – clean your room.

Everyone has a room, a place where they sleep, a habitat, whatever you want to call it. Everyone has a different way to keep their stuff organized, and they get comfortable with how their stuff is. So there are a few problems with messing with peoples’ rooms. Firstly, it destroys their carefully crafted order. If you’re anything like me, you know exactly where everything is in your room, all the time. When someone comes and messes with my stuff, I can’t find anything! Even though it’s “clean” by their standards, it’s completely messed up by your own. That’s just not cool. Also, peoples rooms should be a place where they can go and just chill. To just chill one must feel like they have privacy. If someone messes with their room, that’s an invasion of their privacy. DICK MOVE. Finally, adults usually make children clean their rooms when they’re having company over. If people come over, they’re usually friends or possible friends. These people should get to know the real you. I mean, yeah, your house shouldn’t be an absolute pigsty, but you shouldn’t have to Jesus-clean it just to have friends over. I can see where parents come from, but really. No one has a house that’s pristine all the time, and people should get to know the real you.

Getting to the point, perhaps in the ideal situation parents and kids would compromise. A child’s room should not be absolutely filthy. I mean, there are some levels of cleanliness that must be maintained.  But parents shouldn’t be neo-Nazis. No one likes it when their stuff gets messed with, because it screws with the order their room’s in, messes with their privacy, and creates unrealistic expectations for the future.  So perhaps compromise is necessary, but unfortunately very few people actually give a damn, so I’m going to debase this entire post by saying that compromise isn’t possible. Nothing will change about it, and parents will continue to yell at their kids about the same things for generations to come. That’s how the relationships work!