h/w or room tidy

[mollykins]

My parents have gone out and are syaing that tidying my room is more important than homework and that it has to be done first but I haven't got time to do both. Plus it's my friends birthday dinner tonight and if i don't have my room done then i can't go to her party.

I'm 17 and they're treating me like a 7 year old. I'm doing 4 hard a-levels and they just don't seem to care that i have soo much work to do, then it'll be them that has a go at me when I fail, because i haven't done enough work, and they'll make me pay for the resits and I don't get EMA, I don't get pocket money and I have too much work to do, to get a job.

What can I do, dad was V angry when he left.

[~Wingnut~]

Flipping 'eck I am sick to the back teeth of having to tell me 2 to tidy their room without coming onto AB to tell you as well to tidy your room lol
You can't study in a mess, simple as. Get offline, get it tidy then you can go to the party.

Don't like being treated like a child? quit acting like one!!

[EcclesCake]

Wingnut - I love your style and sentiment!

[~Wingnut~]

Thanx Eccles lol :o)

[mollykins]

I don't study in my room anyway.

My rooms a bit of a mess because of their stuff (I realised). There was a load of their stuff in my wardrobe, which I cleared out and dumped in their room and then shoved anything except my a-level work into the empty space. But there's still odds and ends to do.

[boxtops]

Like it - you tidy up, they get more junk in their room, LOL - well, you did as you were told!

[mollykins]

Wingnut, also do your children get 27-30 hours of homework a week (plus up until a couple of days ago I was doing extra, for revision)? I doubt it, but I do, so it's hard to find the time.

[joko]

jusr get a load of bin bags and throw everything visible into them an then stash them on top of your wardrobe, in the garage, under the bed etc....then when you hav etime sort them out

[mollykins]

Precisely boxy, I didn't realise it was in there (Behind some of my stuff). It's a big wardrobe - 1/2 of the hanging clothes space is taken up by clothes that don't fit us three anymore that we take to carbootsales. And then I have a section where I keep most my shoes, then other shelves for board games and camping kinda stuff aswell as general randomness such as blankets and bed linen we aren't using.

[mollykins]

The wardrobes built in, floor to ceiling, and there's no space (well about an inch, under my bed) and the garage is full of dads tools, carboot stuff and mums books for ebay/ carbooties.

[boxtops]

That much homework is not at all unusual, molly, for people in exam years, IMO.

[cazzz1975]

I knew you would find a way to blame your parents for something..

have you finished your homework?

[society]

Molly, there'll come a time when you'll wish you were living back with your parents, and even wish you could hear them nagging and ordering you...

[mollykins]

No cazz, i'll probably spend all day tomorrow doing it, I still have another lot to do (on a proper computer) aswell as chemistry i'll have to email to my teacher by monday.

[cazzz1975]

you could always do it this evening, a party is not as important as your school work

[JonnyBoy12]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is EMA when it is at home? Sorry if this question has been asked before.

[NazNomad]

I thought it was Emo for illiterate teenagers. lol

[boxtops]

It's a scheme which is now closed, jonny, the dept of education paid an allowance to eligible students to stay on at school.

[~Wingnut~]

Well as my two are 7 and 12 years old, no they don't get that much homework but my 12yr old tends to do her homework at school on a lunchtime so she can do her own thing on evenings and weekends. Yeah she will prob do more at home once the workload increases but as she is going to have to get a part-time job in a couple of years I hope she will have been able to manage her time so she can get all of it done as well as work. Others manage it, I can't quite understand how you seem to think you can't? It's called a matter of needs must.

[mollykins]

And I go to cadets aswell which makes it difficult to work in the evenings at at the weekend at the summer but this summer i'm getting a waitressing job with my mums friend who'll be flexible with me and employ me and mum, so mum can fill in when i'm with cadets.

[sophie_1003]

Wait till you get to uni molly; will be much more difficult and you'll have even less time!