LDS cleaning guru: Stop babying self-entitled young men

The best way to help prepare a young man for a mission is to stop doing his laundry, cooking for him and cleaning up after him.So says a Mormon cleaning guru who's built a successful career on correct cleaning principles.__IMAGE1__Don

Aslett, a former bishop in the Marsh Creek Ward in the McCammon Idaho Stake — who at 74 has more than 50 years of experience teaching

people to clean efficiently and well — said it does missionaries no good

to be babied.\"One year before their mission, quit doing their

laundry, cooking their meals, clipping their toenails. Cease all

tending to their every need. The worst thing you can do is protect and

insulate them,\" said Aslett, who served in Hawaii as a young man and in Boston with his wife as a senior couple. \"Change the meaning of CTR to 'Clean The

Room.' Instead of 'Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel,' make it 'Keep Your

Shoulder to the Wheel.' Don't be a Litter-day Saint.\"Aslett

said he's found that those who are sloppy in their habits tend to be

sloppy in their keeping of commandments. Those who keep their physical

house in order keep their spiritual houses in order.\"The Holy

Ghost doesn't want to stick around where it's messy and dirty,\" Aslett

said. \"There's a huge carryover from clean to conduct.\"__IMAGE2__Aslett

said Mormons with their big families and busy lives need to de-junk and

take individual responsibility more than anyone, from childhood on.\"If you're big enough to make a mess, you're big enough to clean it up,\" he said.Aslett

said he's seen too many young men (and young women) arrive in the

mission field with a sense of entitlement but without manners.If

they are taught from childhood to be responsible for themselves, they

have much more successful missions and marriages, he said.\"Part