<p>People say they ignore it, but I have a different philosophy. For my kids, my daughter in particular, she has had major struggles with organization and knowing how to keep her room clean. I feel it is my responsibility to help her learn how to keep her room clean. She gets obviously overwhelmed and out of sorts when her room gets out of control. I have taught her over and over how to keep it organized. And over. She does want it clean, she just hadn’t had the skills. </p>
<p>I’ve got 2.5 years of her at home to get his one down. She is doing much, much better. </p>
<p>One time a few years ago her clean and dirty clothes were constantly mingled, all over the floor, her closet was a disaster. I gave her several days notice and countdown to separate them and put the clean ones away. She refused. So I went in and took every item of clothes that was on the floor. She had to earn them back by keeping her room picked up. We figured she had too much if she couldn’t handle what she had.</p>