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"My contractor was amused. I&amp;#039;d just told my 10 year-old that if he didn&amp;#039;t clean up his bedroom floor, I would do it for him with a couple of jumbo garbage bags and an evil laugh. &amp;quot;Let me guess,&amp;quot; my contractor said. &amp;quot;His is the bedroom on the right.&amp;quot;  He was, of course, correct. The bedroom on the left \u2013 my younger son&amp;#039;s bedroom \u2013 was fairly neat and orderly, while his big brother&amp;#039;s bedroom looked as though it had been ransacked by robbers who were looking for something more valuable than half-drawn artwork, broken pencils, unmatched sandals and a pile of sea shells. Together, my sons&amp;#039; bedrooms would make for a nice senior thesis subject on Nature vs. Nurture. My kids were raised by the same parents under the same roof, and yet, their bedrooms look as though one child had spent time in a military school while the other was raised by hippies more interested in, uh, &amp;quot;enlightenment,&amp;quot; than in de-cluttering. I swear, I taught them both to make their beds, put their laundry in their hampers and return their books to the shelves when they finished reading them. But it appears that only one child actually heard all of that, while the other must have thought I was talking to myself. Or to his brother. Considering that his sheets and bedspread are once again in a twisted pile as though he used them to escape his bed, he certainly couldn&amp;#039;t have thought it applied to him. The older he gets, the less likely that keeping his room neat and his things tucked away nicely will become part of his nature. Unless you count his sneakers, which I just found tucked away nicely in the power cords under my desk. While his brother has a spot in his desk drawer reserved just for library books, my 10 year-old has no such place, except, perhaps wedged into the back seat of my car. That&amp;#039;s where we found the last one, anyway. No, years of Nurture didn&amp;#039;t work on my son&amp;#039;s cleaning and organizing skills. I admit that Nature has won. But there&amp;#039;s still one more N left \u2013 Nagging. That, and a couple of jumbo garbage bags coupled with an evil laugh work just fine. For now, anyway. Nature isn&amp;#039;t done with Nurture just yet. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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