Kids’ bedrooms can be a source of contention in some households. Some kids are just naturally more tidy than others while some are more like little tornados leaving debris wherever they go refusing to clean it up. Parents can be on different wavelengths when it comes to how clean a child’s room should be.
You’ve got the parents who are huge proponents of simply closing the door. If you can’t see the mess, then the mess doesn’t exist. You’ve got some parents that do a weekly or monthly clean themselves in an attempt to save their sanity. Then you’ve got the ones that have daily room cleans as part of their child’s routine, but not everyone can or wants to be at that level.
Ariel B. recently posted a video asking parents to explain how they get their children to clean their rooms as she pans to her daughters’ rooms that are in complete disarray.
The exhausted mom starts off by explaining that motherhood is ghetto. In fact she surmises that the “hood” people are talking about when they say the hood is ghetto is indeed motherhood before asking how other parents are doing it.
“My daughters’ rooms are so nasty, everything you are ever looking for in your house is in them rooms,” Ariel says.
This frustration started when her kids couldn’t find their field trip shirts for summer camp, which prompted her to go in their rooms to investigate. She then shows everyone the room where the shirt was lost, exclaiming, “You couldn’t find Jesus in this room. You couldn’t find common sense, humility, any decent soul in this room.”
The room was strewn with clothes, toys and other things. Commenters not only pointed out the mannequin head looking distressed under the bed but related hard to what the mom was saying and supported her rant.
“The mannequin head laying under table looking stressed. Her face looks like it’s saying ‘help me,'” one person laughs.
“I’m closing the door. I have an almost 3 & 6 year old and I’m 37 weeks today…I close the door. It’s no way y’all messed the room up like this and expect me to clean it. So, when they get back from Florida, they can clean it themselves,” another says.
“You’re cracking me up! I can definitely relate to finding wrappers. I said 23 times don’t eat in your room. I’m not cleaning it,” another writes.
“That last part gets me crackin up every time I watch this. I watch this on the daily to remind myself it’s not just my kid,” one mom admits.
But if you watch closely as Ariel pans the messy bedrooms you’ll notice there’s something important missing from the bed frames…a mattress. One person inquired about the important missing item and the response is not only comical but makes so much sense.
“I flipped the mattress looking for the orange shirt after I stepped on a Barbie jeep and almost broke my neck,” Ariel explains before following up in another comment saying the mattress is in the hallway—it likely made it much easier to clean under the bed. And while the mom did receive some advice in the comments, it’s unclear if she will heed any.