Seriously, your kid is 16 and way past time they cleaned their own room. I've had to work with far too many people who's mommies always clean up after them and they have no idea how to keep a work space or shared spaces clean, or to be responsible for their own possessions. One guy I work with now is 24 years old and just got married. Very nice guy and hard worker, but he won't even put used latex gloves in the trash. He just leaves them out on our work tables etc, and leaves the break room a mess even though the boss has gotten on to him repeatedly. He's oblivious to the mess and that he is actually responsible for it. From a very early age my brother sister and I were expected to clean out own rooms and we did, and it's helped us in our lives to have been made to :-)