Teen rooms are the bane of mothers everywhere. It’s not even like when they were younger. In those days, if their rooms were messy, you could shout at them and get them to tidy it up, and, if that didn’t work, you could go in and do a good job yourself. However, when it comes to teens and their rooms you’re dealing with something whole different.

Yes, you could go and tell them to clean up their rooms. And yes, you could shout at them a bit too, if you wanted to, or you could go and tidy up the room yourself. However, that’s when the trouble begins. Teen rooms are private places and not to be interfered with unless you’re invited to.

Woe betide the person who dares to move even one inch of that mess on the carpet. It was there for a good reason and you had absolutely no right to move it. At least, that will be the argument of most teens, and you being the patient, caring mother that you are, will just roll your eyes and tell them that the whole pizza and day-old shirt thing just don’t go well together and you were just rescuing them from the anger of the walking pizza slice.

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 at square one.

Of course, one way that you could deal with this catastrophe is to redecorate it. Teen rooms might be sanctums to them, but even they would like it if you gave their rooms a fantastic 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 famously different with regard to their rooms. You might find that your teen rooms are done out very differently from that which you had expected and that which you would have done first of all. This is where a comprise should be struck, if your teen wants black walls for his room, then say you want another colour too that will brighten up the black.

Be prepared to give in a little on your ideas no matter how silly their ideas are to you. After all, they’re only a teen for a while and later on they will look back with horror on what bad taste they had had.

So, it is your duty as a parent to allow them these fleeting years in their lives so that they can look back on them with mock horror and disallow their own children from doing the same to their own teen rooms.

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