464 Views
Organizing And Cleaning With Your Kids At Home
by
Kristin
(IC: blogger)
Every parent knows how difficult it is to maintain a high level of cleanliness
and hygiene when you have kids...
and hygiene when you have kids...
...who create a mess right after the cleaning procedure. Ensuring the neat environment at home brings a lot of benefits and protects the members of your family from serious health problems, but how can you achieve the desired cleanliness if you are the only one who really cares about the outlook of the property? Have you ever considered getting your kids involved in the cleaning activities? According to a great number of surveys and experiments, teaching your children some basic cleaning techniques and creating the habit of picking up after themselves have an enormous impact on their future development and bringing up.
· Don't leave your kids to do any cleaning task alone. Join them and work as a team. Show them the right way for cleaning the windows – from the top to the bottom. Ask them to open the fridge, read the expiration dates on the products and throw the leftovers away.
· Provide your kids with funny and easy to use cleaning tools. Glue a colorful cartoon to the plastic part of the sweeper, give them a small-sized spray bottle, which can be used for spraying and dusting the leaves of the decorative flowers at home etc.
· Sooner or later every kid will have to be a host at a special occasion, so start them early and teach them how to set and reset a table. Show them, for example, interesting ways for folding napkins and make decorations.
Despite the fact that involving your children in doing the house chores can be beneficial, there is another side of the coin. As a matter of fact, when they grow up, they won't remember the expensive gifts you bought them, but the happy memories you had together. When was the last time when you took them out to the cinema or to the park nearby? All too often parents are so indulged in bringing up their children properly, that they tend to forget about the fun activities that would make the special bond between parents and kids unbreakable. We don't say that the children should be totally excluded from helping you out with the domestic cleaning but as a parent, you have to do your best and find the happy medium between teaching your kids to be responsible and allowing them some time for playing and creating crucial social contacts.
Enjoyed the project?
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
Published June 28th, 2014 6:51 AM
Comments
Join the conversation
1 comment
Frequently asked questions
Have a question about this project?