Me: ” H, would you please tidy your room” 
H: “I can’t, I don’t know how.”
Me: ” You need to make your bed and put away your toys”
H: (puzzled) “Make my bed into what?” “Put my toys where?”
Me: (rolling my eyes) ” Pull up your sheets and doona” . “Toys go in the toybox”
H: “ok” …..makes his bed.
Me: “Well done mate…now you need to put your toys away”
H: “I can’t mum.”
Me: “Yes you can. Why do you think you can’t?”
H: ” I don’t know where to put them?”
Me: (getting agitated) “In your toybox remember”
H: “Oh yeah”.
Me: (hurredly) ”Come on then”
H: (getting flustered) “But how?”
Me: “Put teddy on your pillow….(he does that)
Put your books in your bookcase (takes a full 2 minutes).
“Great job” “Now put your shoes back in your cupboard” (wait another 2 minutes).
“Excellent….now put your cars in the toy box”
H: “Which cars mum?”
Me: ( agitated beyond belief by now) “THE ONES ALL OVER YOUR FLOOR…..PUT THEM IN THE TOYBOX!”
H: (honestly clueless as to why I’m annoyed) ” Why are you yelling mum?”
Me: (sitting down cross legged on the floor putting the cars in the toy box myself because 10 minutes has passed and I’m over the step by step instructions) ” BECAUSE I WANT YOUR ROOM TIDIED UP!”
H: “Well, you just had to ask mum!”
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
