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How to help your kids understand the wrong and never do the same again?

Our trash can is small so we use the regular shopping bag as the trash bags.  And I always tell the kids, “Once the trash is full, tie it up and take it out to the big trash can outside, and never leave the trash bag out on the kitchen floor overnight.”

One time, after they done with cold brew coffee for the church coffee ministry next day, they tie up the trash bag but leave the trash bag inside on the kitchen floor, I guess it is because when they finish is late and dark outside so they decide to not to take out the trash.

If you also use the shopping bag as the trash bags, you probably notice that the bag is not that sturdy to hold the trash with liquid. Therefore if you leave the trash bag which is full of trash out then it’ll definitely leak badly.

For that reason this trash bag that the kids leave it out overnight on the kitchen floor, it leaks. In the morning when I see it, at first I am kind of mad, because they forget what I taught them.

If you were me, what will you do to let the kids remember and never done the wrong again?

Will you, number one, quickly clean up the mess and left? For this, most of the old generation, like my parents, they do so. I hope that you are not the ones. It will turns out, well, most of the case, the kids will never learn or when they grow up, they’ll not happy to find out that they never get chance to learn because of you.

Or will you, number two, scold them loudly and force them clean up or clean up for them at the same time? For this will lead an even worse result than the first way of handling the situation, the kids will not just never learn and never remember why you are mad, the only thing they remember is most likely, how terrible the parents you are. This is really sad.

Or will you, number three, kindly ask them to come to the scene, clean up and remind them one more time why and don’t ever do the same again?