Posted by mair on March 21, 2005, at 12:56:24
In reply to Re: I wish, posted by stresser on March 18, 2005, at 20:10:49
I spent hours yesterday cleaning my daughter's room and the bathroom she uses. She's now away for the week and I just couldn't stand it anymore. It took hours, and I really didn't clean anything - I never even got to the vacuuming and dusting stage. I just organized her closet and picked up the hundreds of pieces of clothing on her floor and washed everything that I couldn't verify as being clean. I collected about 10 recyclable plastic and glass bottles, and threw away about a hundred gum wrappers. (I hate seeing her chew gum)
My daughter has 2 closets in her room. One is a storage closet chock full of an assortment of "stuff." I didn't attempt to do much with that closet other than clean it out enough that the door could close. In one of my daughter's innumberable handbags, I found a partially empty bottle of Chivas Regal and a couple of colored water bottles, each of which had some scotch in them. I have no idea where she got the scotch, although she could easily have gotten it out of our liquour cabinet. My husband and I rarely drink hard liquour, but we've got stuff like this on hand for guests. We're in there so rarely that I'd probably never notice if anything was gone.
I'm pretty sure my daughter isn't drinking regularly, so I'm not too concerned that i have a budding alchoholic. That aside, obviously I don't want her drinking and certainly not providing alchohol to her friends and certainly not getting in a car after she's been drinking.
I'm really lousy at dealing with stuff like this because I just dislike disciplining my kids, and really don't have a good sense of appropriate punishment. Mostly I haven't had to - they've been amazingly responsible socially and basically trustworthy. And I don't want to tell my husband who tends to overreact to things. But obviously I can't ignore this.
I wonder how long it'll take her to figure out that the bag isn't there anymore. I guess it depends on how long the bottle has been there since she last used it.
Any suggestions.
Mair
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