If most of parenting is leading by example, than many of us are screwed.
Top 10 Signs You’re Raising a Slob
1. You clean the bath toys by kicking them from one end of the tub to the other when you’re taking a shower.
2. There is a slice of cucumber permanently affixed to your kitchen floor. You now consider it decorative.
3. At any given time of day you can find a piece of landry on the following surfaces: kitchen counter, dining room table (you have the table not the room, it’s just an expression), on or around the tv, on or around the cat. This laundry is typically not clean.
4. You keep folded, clean laundry on the back of your living room couch.
5. You keep important documents, baby toys you can’t emotionally cope with giving away and candy wrappers in your borough draws.
6. On play dates the visiting kids play where’s-that-smell. They love it. “It’s a mystery!”
7. Your cat has started sleeping in the litter box. Apparently that is the cleanest, coziest place in your apartment.
8. You read one of those weekly cleaning charts on Pintrest and suddenly realized why everyone else’s apartments looks so good. Doing dishes everyday? Like Cinderella?
9. Your best friend describes your place as “heavily used.”
10. When you ask your kid to clean up her toys, she says “why?”