Getting Your Kids To Clean Up After Themselves

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Getting Your Kids To Clean Up After Themselves
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• When we teach our kids to clean up after
  themselves, were helping to instill some
  important values in them, such as how to
  contribute to the family unit, how to keep a
  clean home ready for when they move out
  (eventually!) and understanding the importance of
  having responsibilities.
• Here are a few tips on getting your kids to clean
  up after themselves
• Make cleaning a part of their daily routine in
  some way or another
• You dont want to nag at your kids about
  cleaning, otherwise theyll hate the tasks and
  grow to resent you, too, so the best way is to
  have a little 5 minute clean up before they take
  their evening bath or go to bed. Have this happen
  daily and it will soon become routine.

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• Make sure your kids know where things belong
• After your kids have played with their toys or
  games, its important that they know where it
  came from, so that they can put it back when
  asked to. Even toddlers can get to grips with
  this, especially if you use brightly coloured
  boxes for storage.
• Dont leave them to do it completely alone
• The minute you ask the kids to tidy up while you
  relax on the couch with a glass of wine, is the
  minute theyll begin to resent the task youve
  set them! Help them without taking over, and give
  guidance so that they arent forced to repeat the
  task if they dont get it right the first time.

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• Clean up as they go along
• Putting one set of toys away before they start
  playing with the next, is one simple way of
  avoiding having a floor covered in toys, and
  lets face it, the more toys they are forced to
  tidy away in one go, the less likely they are to
  relish the task!
• Get them to understand how important cleaning up
  is
• If you can get your kids to understand that when
  they tidy away after themselves, their toys are
  less likely to get lost or broken, youll have
  more time for doing things together if they tidy
  up often, and that it is part of the
  responsibility of growing up, then everything
  should become less of a battle.

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• Be an example for your kids
• When you start cleaning up after yourself and
  making tidying part of your regular, daily
  routine, your kids will soon follow your habit,
  or at the very least, become less inclined to
  moan and whinge about it!
• Nobody wants their kids to feel like slaves, so
  be careful not to load too many cleaning or
  tidying tasks onto their little shoulders but
  learning to at least put things away where they
  belong once theyve finished with them, is a
  great start for younger kids. Older kids, well,
  those you can really put to work!

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