Cleaning Routine For Kids!
Do you feel like you have too much of a work load not only at work but at home too? You deserve to have family time and relax! To help you get the necessary down time you need, here are some helpful tips that I found on theinspiredroom.net. These are great tips to teach your kids to help you around the house, learn responsibility and gain organization skills!
Do you have cleaning routines in your family?
1. Have Realistic Expectations.
What you think is clean may not be the same thing that your children envision. Also to a child, asking them to “clean a room” is an overwhelming and confusing concept they often have trouble mastering. Asking them to put away their clean laundry away or to clear off a desktop are likely more manageable expectations and will eventually lead to better skill with keeping a cleaning routine.
2. Set Timers
Kids tend to work more efficiently with deadlines. They may get distracted or try to put it off. But if I set a timer for 15 minutes, the task was over and done 15 minutes later.
3. Have A Place for Everything
Most of my failures trying to teach my kids to clean and establish routines came from not having a good system set up to begin with. By regularly getting rid of the excess and having a clear place for everything, I hoped to teach my kids be successful not only with daily cleaning but understanding the need for keeping only what you need and basic organizational skills.
4. Set Aside Time for Daily Cleaning.
Once a month cleaning and weekend cleaning plans did not work at our house. For awhile we tried Saturday cleaning and it pretty much ruined our weekend. Once I realized that I didn’t enjoy letting all the housework pile up to be dealt with on Saturday, everything changed around our house.
Instead of putting off cleaning until “later” we incorporated cleaning routines into our day to day schedules and it made life much easier. Our kids had a certain “zone” in their room to clean most every single day. One day they’d tackle their desk, the next day the floor, the next day the dresser. A little bit of upkeep every day helps make the job not look so big.
5. Rewards, Memory Making and End of the Week Fun.
Sometimes rewards were directly related to completing certain chores (as a paycheck is directly related to doing our job), and sometimes chores were simply part of being a member of the family. But we tried to create some sort of weekly “reward” or “memorable event” to look forward to each week — whether it was allowances or fun family nights or ideally both!
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