Do you clean up after your child at other peoples houses? Or am I just a bitch for being bothered by this?
Just trying to see something. Does anyone else clean up after their own children when you’re visiting at other peoples houses? I personally do because my kids are my responsibility and I would never let them make a huge mess in someone else’s house and just leave it. My brother and SIL’s daughter is VERY messy. Which all kids are messy but she’s messy messy. I have a daughter the same age (they’re both 4) and the messes she makes are nothing compared to my niece. I feel bad for even getting upset over something like this but every time they come over my niece DESTROYS my daughter’s room. Idk if the word destroy even does the mess justice, when I say she makes a mess in there I mean she tears the whole room apart every toy box dumped, every bin dumped just turns everything upside down, empties the organizer bins then sits in the boxes or stands on them and has broken 3 of them in total as of today, strips the bed sheets and all to jump on it, it’s so bad that I literally cannot even see the floor or walk through the room when they leave and it takes me days to clean it up. I’m pregnant asf and cleaning up after my own kids is already a struggle but cleaning up that kinda mess is HARD. I wouldn’t care if she was just making a little mess or actually playing with the stuff she got out, but she just goes in there and within 5 mins it looks like a tornado has went through the room and she comes out not interested in playing with anything. My brother and SIL just say “sorry for the mess” and leave. Sometimes the mess isn’t even just in my daughter’s room sometimes it’s the living room too or my kitchen or even my room. They let her do whatever she wants the whole time they’re visiting and they don’t get onto her or say nothing. They let her get in my fridge and get a bunch of stuff out, get in the cabinets and get whatever she wants then it all ends up smashed on my floor or all over the tables and couch, lets her jump on all my furniture, roll the rugs up and move them around the house, I feel SO bad but like jeez.. I don’t let my kids act like that at other peoples houses and it just makes their visit really overwhelming and honestly not enjoyable because the whole time I’m just dreading the hours I’m gonna spend cleaning after they leave.. I try to get onto her at times or just nicely try to redirect her when she’s making a mess or tell her not to do something but she doesn’t listen to me whatsoever so I wait for her parents to say something and they never do. I love her to death obviously and it’s probably not her fault because I’m guessing she acts like that at home. I just wish my brother and SIL would clean up after her when they’re here even just a little bit before they leave it all on me
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