Saturday Mom Confession #1

My friend Tressa of Tressays has started a little meme called Saturday Mom Confessions.  I think it's brilliant and I am happy to air my dirty laundry for all to see.  Hell, you already know I sit around making Swiffer covers.  I might as well just let it all hang out.

Here we go.  Saturday Mom Confession #1:

The Goobers hardly ever make their beds.  Okay, they pretty much NEVER make their beds.  I used to require nicely made beds, but once they learned how to do it properly, bed making became optional.  Why?  I'll tell you why - there are a million and one things I like to do in the morning, and worrying about other people's rumpled sheets is not one of them. 

I know this may seriously affect their relationships with future spouses (and/or mothers-in-law) who will most likely be of the bed making variety.  I understand how difficult it will be for them to force their own children to make their beds when they are not in the habit of making their own.  I also know it will be a severe shock to their systems when they run away from home to join the Army and are expected to make hospital corners every single morning, even if it's raining and they have runny noses and their pet rock just died.  

I'm okay with that. 

So there.

Comments

[Tressa]

I think you are awesome! Why make the bed when you are just going to sleep in it in 12 hours anyway? And how is it possible to enjoy crisply washed sheets if they are folded every darn day. You are right. Much bigger fish to fry.

[Beth]

I totally agree! I don't make my Dc make their beds everyday. I am more concerned with the junk & clothes all over the floor.

[Sheri]

I tell my children that if they make their bed, they can throw all the 'stuff' on their floors onto their bed and it will look so much neater. Ya think?

[Donna]

After all of these years of child rearing and teaching them how to clean a room, the only thing that really stuck to my kids is the bed. It is the easiest job.

So in the ruins of their rooms stands a shining, sparkly made bed, each day. This is without being told of course.

I did plant a spider idea into their little heads once many years ago about unmade beds. The spiders drop from the ceiling and lay in wait under the covers of your unmade bed. It helped that at least one of my kids was awakened at night once or twice with a spider on him and he told the story to the girl. haha

[muralimanohar]

Make beds?? Ah..hmm....I only do that for work. Doing them at home feels too much like..work. :p My kids benefit from that. Or not...depending on your point of view. :p

[MichielleRose]

we are not bed makers here either, they can learn that later in life if need be and probably do it better, faster and easier having waited until then.

[Jamie]

I used to remind my son to make his bed each morning -- then we got him a loft bed, and imagining mornings filled with sounds of wailing about how hard it is to make a bed when it's up so high, I filed bed making away under Choose Your Battles and left it at that.

I think what has true confession potential in this post is whether or not YOU make YOUR bed every morning. ;)

[Melanie]

Drat. I knew someone would ask that question. LOL

Actually, I rarely make our bed in the morning because The Man is usually still in it when I get up. He leaves a pretty big lump in the bedspread!