Teens, cleaning up, inner & outer chaos!
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I have teenage children who live in what I find to be intolerable conditions in their rooms. Considering Susan’s teachings on this topic I am wondering if their physcial spaces are mirroring the chaos in thier rapidly changing bodies and minds. Curious as to what you all think!
In my own childhood, I lived under a kind of an authoritarian home regime where I was not allowed to leave anything at all on any surface (nor able to choose the color scheme or decor, etc, but that’s another story). So I choose to leave my kids to their chaos and just have them shut their doors so it doesn’t infect other parts of the home :). It does lend to some kindness towards this behavior, the notion that their spaces are relating to their own inner chaos.
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I really feel this, Nicole! Been there and also, my adult kids sometimes still live in this chaos so I don’t know if your theory actually holds water! All I can say is, hang in there, they usually leave, and you can gloriously tidy until your heart flows over with tears of missing them in your gorgeously clean space! Seriously, though, I am sorry your upbringing was so uptight. Seems like you’re allowing a lot more room for your kids to unfurl in their own way. Sending you patience:)
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