'Your Room Is a Pigsty'

摘要

To hear kelly bartling tell it, her 15-year-old daughter Lacey's bedroom should qualify for disaster-relief funds. "Wads of paper on the floor. Clothes under the bed. Stuffstrewn everywhere. It's a pigsty." And it's not just the mess that bothers Bart-ling. It's the reflection this may cast on Lacey's character, not to mention the ramifications for her future. "We all know people who aren't real tidy," says Battling. "People look at that as a character flaw, a lack of self-discipline. I just don't want her to grow up and be a slob."