My Bride and I raised three whirling dervishes. You can have kids or a consistently clean house. You can’t have both.
Don’t Blame You In the Slightest Marie
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My mom, God rest her soul, had 9 children, including 4 rambunctious sons, kept an immaculate house. It can be done.
If you say so. I personally have never witnessed it.
I have a sister in law who had three children and kept her house as neat and clean as a museum. Not a shock she never extended an invite to me, and my wife and seven children. Of course, her children never really had a mom as she was always on them about keeping everything just so. All three of her kids have issues stemming from how they were raised. At bottom, kids need to know you love them more than anything else, even more than a clean house if keeping a clean house happens to be your thing.
Japan is desperate for couples willing and able to have three children. This is all most pleasing.
I say so.
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My daughter taught me the 10 minute tidy. Ten minutes and then let the rest be.
It can be done IF you send kids outside for majority of day and rest eating- and going to rooms.
That said, I would clean my house at night and sometimes early morn. My m-I-l would only show up after kids had dismantled it. She even offered her cleaners services. She was just like Marie off Everybody loves Raymond 😂. At some point I became like Debra and didn’t care anymore
There were 7 children in my family, 6 boys. If there was 1 wrinkle when we hung our school pants up (uniforms), all our pants were dumped on the ground. We got to try again. 1 streak in the washing of windows same punishment. We never waited for our dad to come home because that meant we couldn’t go outside. Don’t even know what our dad would’ve done. Never waited that long. Today is different. Children aren’t encouraged to roam outside.