Organizing And Cleaning With Your Kids At Home

by Kristin

Every parent knows how difficult it is to maintain a high level of cleanliness
and hygiene when you have kids...

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...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.

Here are some of the tasks you can give your kids to:

· Make your children organize their toys. Provide them with large bins where they can put the toys instead of scattering them all over the floor. Teaching them to fold their clothes and neatly put them in the wardrobe wouldn't hurt as well. Rest assured that the organizational skills they have will be highly appreciated by teachers, friends and even future employers. You will also save a lot of time for tidying 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.

· Encourage them and keep them motivated. Do you think that the children really care and pay attention to the dirty spots at home? Most of them don't and that's understandable. Let them know how important it is to live in a healthy environment. Since you are the one who knows best the character of your kids, you can think of a game that will keep their interest in the cleaning procedures. Don't expect too much from them though. Every attempt deserves appreciation so don't be too harsh. Encourage and thank them for the well done job.

· 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.

Today I am sharing a guest post from Mrs. Shanne, who writes in her free time. Parenting and managing a business on her own takes almost all of her time. Your can find more tips and tricks at Prompt End Of Tenancy Cleaning. Thanks for sharing!

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Mary on Sep 07, 2016
So thankful for this post! It's just what I needed. I struggle with balance and badly want to help my daughter make solid good habits so she doesn't struggle in the future. Thanks again and Many Blessings! M

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