Cleaning his room

[gsskygirl(SECF)]

We went in and pulled up the carpet and strated getting every thing in his room cleaned up today. His water bed started leaking right before he left so his room was in pretty bad shape. I was thinking about painting and redecorating as we will use it for a guest room as well. I was it to be something that he likes, not anythnig girlie. It's tought going through his things but I think it will be a nice surprise when he comes home!

[Doreen(07/272)]

We made our son clean his room before he left. He kept saying "I will do it tomorrow". He ended up being angry, because he ran out of tomorrows and had to do it on his last afternoon at home. His dad took it as an opportunity for a man to man chat, while he helped. The boy felt like we were packing him up, never to see him again. We asked him to put all his clothes in his dresser, what wouldn't fit in dresser needed to be boxed, and knick knacky things also boxed. He needed to clean out his closet(finally), and threw out bags of junk. All the boxes fit neatly in his closet. His dad wrote "you've only been gone a few days and it feels like forever, we do not have enough space for our clean towels, and this is the longest your room has ever stayed clean!"

We stressed to him many times, it was his room. That he would always have a place to come home to...

[BunkerQB]

You ladies are soooooooooo cruel. My sailor's room is like a shrine - nothing has been changed in 4.5 years. He went through everything on his own in '06. Same bed, same posters, same desk. It's only changes when he is home on leave and rearranges. We'll see what happens when he comes home to stay permanently.

[Doreen(07/272)]

Not cruel...it was a pig sty. He needed to clean it.

[BunkerQB]

Hi Doreen. LOL. He'll probably become so organized and clean - it'll drive his future wife crazy. My son draws little graphs on how things should be done - for his gf. I stay completely out of that one. Many of my friends (in and out of the military) have reclaim rooms in their homes. Of course, if we retire and move to a smaller home - everything is fair game.Just prolonging the inevitable.

 

[gsskygirl(SECF)]

My son knows he will always have his room at home. It was a good way for me to let go, allowing him to be a man. Not to mention the remodeling was something we had planned as the room can use new paint and we don't like carpet anyway. He also ran out tomorrows but I never pressed him to do it on his own because of the frustration.I guess each parent has to do it in their own way. We can use a guest room as my grandparents will soon be visiting.

[BunkerQB]

We went to my niece's home for July 4th. They adopted twins 18 months ago. The family room has been turned into one big playroom. We don't have any grand babies yet - it'll be interesting - can't wait.