This is very Sheila from ShowTime's Shameless, but does anyone else have a problem with everyone wearing their freaking SHOES in the house?
DH and all three SKIDS do this. It drives me nuts. They track in grass, dirt and sand from the playground and no matter how much I talk to, complain or downright throw fits over it, they never stop. I like to walk around the house barefoot, but I can't because I'm constantly having to scrape this crap off of my feet. And if I don't CONSTANTLY keep the floor swept and mopped, the soles of my feet are black.
Today, I've swept the kitchen and livingroom three times. DH thinks I'm nuts. I think he's an ass because the SKIDS are STILL parading through the house and he's saying absolutely NOTHING to them.
Gross. I don't understand
Gross. I don't understand that. In my family we always took our shoes off right when we came in the door...
Prince Only Child takes his shoes off but instead of putting them with the other shoes, right inside the door but out of the way, he just leaves them in the middle of the hallway for me to break my damn neck on. Drives me insane.
ugh! my sd8 and ss10 do this
ugh! my sd8 and ss10 do this too! lazy brats!
You can't argue with STUPID!
My group just kicks them off
My group just kicks them off inside the door and steps over them, leaving them there for someone else to trip over, which I did a few weeks ago and threw my back out, bruised by back, hip, knee and elbow to major degree and actually yelled at the child in question. I had previously asked, reminded, requested and every other nice way possible to ensure compliance and encourage remembering, but this time I actually yelled.
The response to that was "I'm SORRRy" with that wonderful tone of voice that tells you the kid is anything BUT sorry.
And my SO tells me that maybe,MAYBE, they should be reminded to put their shoes up on the shelf that's right beside the door, when they first come in. Well, since he's the one that comes in with them and I don't get home from work until 2 hrs later, I'm thinking that maybe HE should be the one doing said reminding, but not 2 days later, I come home from work again and there they are, coats and shoes in the middle of the passageway. Had I been carrying groceries again that day, I likely would not have seen them and down I would have gone AGAIN!
As much as I would absolutely hate the mess that wearing shoes in the house would cause ( I feel your frustration OP), it would almost be preferable to feeling like I'm taking my life in my hands every time I come in the door.
I don't know whether to give up/give in and just be excrutiatingly careful coming in the door, or continue to ask, remind and encourage, even though it does no good whatsoever and I feel like a broken record. It's frustrating as hell, and the younger one SS7 yells at me when I remind him, accusing me of knocking his shoes off the shelf, just to make him go down and put them back on. Yeah! I have nothing better to do than that. Right.
Geesh! Is there an answer to this one? Gross floors or neck-breaking obstacle courses. Oh! I know! Make their PARENT somehow back you up and insist that they mind the house rules. That would work, right?
They have opposable thumbs, right? Why can't they replace the toilet roll?
What's WORSE are the nice
What's WORSE are the nice little "puddles" around the toilet when the skids are over
Not to mention the wet towels all over the bathroom floor after they take their showers 
You can't argue with STUPID!
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