[Realm Ki]

hey this was funny :)

I agree with everyone!

The Universe most certainly sent the shampoo. Now you can tell your kids it is shampoo - or learn to no-poo. But that takes a while and most certainly requires very frequent showers 'shampooing' with hot water instead of shampoo.

They do not want to be smelly - so trust their survival instinct, trust that they behind all the disorganization and distraction and refusal actually want to take good care of themselves - and lay out the alternatives:

Either use normal shampoo provided by 'the house' at leas once a week
- or buy your own products
- or begin now on a proper no-poo transition (which you will then have to keep track of their progress on, afterall they are still immature pre-adults :))

OR

- what?
In my family electronics time works best. I cut the wifi, or take the sim-cards or devices. But I always state clearly which rule 'costs what and for how long'.
- give a deadline
- before the deadline I remind them, with time enough to do the task, but not time enough to procrastinate about it.
- I put everyting in alarms in my phone, causeI have no memory myself, so being a 'consequent mother' is rather impossible. My kids have learnt they have to actually do as I say eventhough I'm not consequent.

Maybe you weren't looking for advice, sorry in that case.

But good luck!