i have basically the same system as karin. :)
maybe she doesn't mind her stuff being wrinkled? or maybe she will eventually find out herself how to unwrinkle it? what are you doing in her dresser anyway? :)

I can't miss it, when I come in to the room...I'm not in the dresser, it's OUT IN THE WAY FOR EVERYONE. :D

I have not bothered to fold Ingrid's laundry the last couple of times and told her she needs to do it herself. Still hasn't happened. She just pulls stuff out of the laundry bag and wears it wrinkled. It gets to be a problem when we can't tell the clean laundry bag from the dirty laundry bag.

Sorry to hear about Karin's sore throats, I'll be curious how that turns out.

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haha! That would never fly here either. Karin and Ingrid should get together and go bowling! :D

we can't tell the clean laundry bag from the dirty laundry bag

no obvious spots, doesn't smell bad? = clean! it isn't harder than that. :)

Rachel sounds like the above Ingrid and Bryce is just like Karin. So I highly suggest you don't visit here. Wait.....I do suggest you visit here! Just don't go in the kids rooms.

As to the sore throats...:( hope she is all better soon. Getting Bryce's tonsils out was the best thing! Good luck. Took me two states and 4 doctors to find one willing to take them out.

Love your Seester!

2 states and 4 doctors?! Geez.

I say my kids' dressers have "barfing drawers" due to all the clothes spilling out from them.

Still! They ask for even more clothes for Christmas!

That's EXACTLY the case here!

I go in spurts. Sometimes I am great at putting close away, others MY basket sits waiting for me. My girls are pretty good, but Nicholas makes up for their cleanliness. Man. His room is BAD.

I still am in denial that Thanksgiving is less than a week away. That CAN'T BE. It just can't. But on the plus side? STUFFING! YUM.

I put ALL my stuff away but I stopped putting everyone else's away years ago. I do all the laundry, the least they can do is put their clothes away neatly...and that's part of what makes me crazy. What's the point in my cleaning and folding them if they end up stuffed all higgledy-piggledy in a drawer?

Bought THREE turkeys today! Still need to get stuffing but I have to go to Malmö for that.

If clothes storage is the only thing your child does that makes you crazy, Liz, you've got it lucky. Just don't go in her room when you are in fear of being crazy. It might just break down to personal style of coping with clothes storage and priorities for Karin at the moment.

If you can walk through the room without danger of tripping and everything is in drawers or on shelves, well... the wrinkle problem seems to be hers at her age.
Certainly not ideal, perhaps embarrassing, maybe crazy making, but definitely her problem... and please don't do it for her!!
I'm pretty sure by now she has "learned," it just doesn't matter to her.

If it does matter to her, then you doing it for her is definitely not good a this stage. Don't cave. Don't go in her room without first taking a deep breath and being determined to ignore the clothes storage (as long as they are stored) and staying on task of what ever brought you into her room.
It is up to her, not you at this point.

On the other hand. If it is that important to you. Explain that you think it may not be important to her, but it is to you. Calmly remind that you have parental role power and want her to pay attention to her clothes storage.
And then lay out a completely unrelated consequence.

'Karin, if you do not fold all of the clothes in your drawers by next Saturday, you will not (fill in the blank.) And stick to it. You may have to be BAD Ass Mom for a week or so, with lots of other love bug things still in the mix, but firm on this point and the consequences.

Yes, threatening and taking away privileges, as much as I hated that as a kid and continue to strongly dislike it as a Grandmother, seems to be the one thing to actually get the child's attention and focus when it is a situation of priority to the parent and no priority to the child.

Ok Liz, throw away the advice if not appropriate. I won't be offended. I hope you weren't offended by me giving it.

This parenting thing can be a bitch!

Excellent advice, thank you. Most of it I am already doing, but it's good to hear that I'm on the right track :)