subject: Decorating Teen Rooms [print this page] Teen rooms are a headache for 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 clean it up, and, if that didn't work, you could go in and do it. But when it comes to teens and their rooms you're dealing with a whole different kettle of fish.
True, you could go and ask them to tidy up their rooms. And true, you could shout at them a little if you wanted to, and go and clean the room yourself. However, that's when all hell breaks loose. Teen rooms are sacred places and not to be entered into lightly.
Let Heaven help anyone who tries to clean up the mess on the carpet. It was there for a good reason and you just had absolutely no right whatsoever to touch it. At least, that will be what most teens will argue and, you being the patient, loving mother that you are, will just roll your eyes skywards and explain that the pizza and grubby, old shirt thing just don't work well together and that you were just rescuing them from impending plague.
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. Teen rooms might be sanctities of peace for them, but even they would love it if you gave their rooms a great makeover.
That doesn't mean that the room will be any cleaner once they've moved back in, but at least you'll have seen the inside of the room long enough to satisfy you 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 when it comes to their rooms. You might discover that your teen rooms are decorated quite differently from that which you had anticipated and that which you would have done beforehand. This is where a comprise ought to be struck, if your teen demands black walls in his room, then say you want to use another colour too that will offset 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 give 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.
by: Marion Jones
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