Katrina Neathey, a 36year old happily married woman, mother of three brat teens, and a businesswoman in cleaner trade in Horsham, West Sussex, drafted a contract with her children. Teens are known to be careless, notorious, and brat, but when Katrina’s teens made her living impossible, she did the unthinkable.
Katrina, who lives in West Sussex, is blessed with three teen children, Josh, Hayden and Olivia. Once the polite and disciplined children, they became careless and big-time procrastinators after succumbing to technology. Most of their bed were not made, carpets were dirty, litter was all around the room, and it became an issue for the leading lady of the house.
Source:swns
Source:SWNS
Source:SWNS
Katrina shares how kids tried to outplay her by not cleaning instead of hiding the litter in different places, but they forgot that their mother is in the trade of cleaning. Things got worst and intolerable when she saw mud on her £1,200 carpet. She decided to draft a cleaning contract for her children, and any violation will result in a fine of £5 for the boys who are currently doing apprenticeship and confiscation of the mobile phone of Olivia.
Check out the cleaning contract of the children:
Olivia's contract
- No make-up in the bedroom
- No eating in the bedroom
- No juice or fizzy drink in the bedroom - only water
- Make bed every day
- All clothes must be hung up or put away
- Put dirty washing in the wash basket
- Keep room tidy
- Put your laundry up from downstairs in the dishwasher (empty if full)
- Put shoes/trainers away
- Put bag away
Breaking of rules will result in the confiscation of mobile phones for an entire day.
Josh and Hayden 's contract (two separate but identical)
- No eating in the bedroom
- No juice or fizzy drink in the bedroom - only water
- Make bed
- All clothes must be hung up or put away
- Put dirty washing in the wash basket
- Keep room tidy
- Put your laundry up from downstairs in the dishwasher (empty if full)
- Put shows/trainers away
- Put bag away
Breaking of rules will result in a fine of £5
The mother of three says that she tried to teach kids basic discipline and organization with basic ground rules, but they took it lightly and stopped complying after a few days. She and her husband Gareth, who is a carpenter by profession, renovated and refurbished their home for £4,000. They bought new furniture, carpet and rooms were redecorated.
She said that it was disappointing to see litter everywhere and organized a house meeting where the decision was taken. Her children’s initial response was that the whole contract is hilarious, but later they realized the severity of the agreement.
The boys became organized as they noticed £5 being charged for every violation. Now she does not find any chopper board, folks, or drinking cans in the cupboard or food wrapper thrown on the ground or hidden beneath the bed.
She claims that the cleaning contract has reinstated the values of cleanliness and discipline in the kids as till now, Josh was fined thrice, Olivia once and Hayden only once.
Well, it seems that the contract is harsh but fair enough to teach kids valuable lessons of life.
