Cleaning With Your Kids!

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Cleaning With Your Kids!
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• Children can be mucky, messy little tykes, and
  trying to keep a clean and tidy home with them
  around, is a feat that many of us simply resign
  ourselves to never achieving. Spring turns into
  summer cleaning, which quickly becomes fall
  cleaning and before you know it the festive
  season is upon you and the house still hasnt
  been cleaned from top to bottom!

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• What if you actually got your kids to pitch in
  and help you clean, though? While your first
  instinct might be to recoil in horror at the
  thought of your little darlings trying to help
  mommy or daddy with the cleaning, with clear
  instructions and a reward system, it might not be
  such a bad idea.
• How can I get my kids to clean, without me having
  to clean up after them?
• While its regrettable that some cleaning jobs
  may involve your kids making more of a mess than
  that which they were trying to clean, there are
  plenty of other ways of getting them to help with
  the housework, while not actually being a
  hindrance to you

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• Putting toys away after play
• Encouraging your kids to put their toys or games
  away as soon as they have finished with them,
  will definitely help to keep your home tidy, if
  not clean. Large containers big enough to fit the
  items in, will make life much easier for you and
  the kids, and they can simply throw them into the
  box when theyre done.
• If it gets to the point where the kids play items
  no longer fit into the container, then it might
  be time to sort through them before they start
  cluttering up your home. Get them to choose their
  favourites, and then the rest can be sold at a
  yard sale or donated to charity.

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• Label containers so that they know what goes
  where
• Littler ones may not fully understand which
  particular toys, games or household items are
  supposed to be stored where, so if you can attach
  a small picture diagram or bold word description
  of each object to the place where you want it to
  go, this may help. They will soon remember which
  items go where, and then you can remove the
  pictures.

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• Teaching them to feel proud of their cleaning
  achievements
• Kids of all ages enjoy being rewarded for good
  behaviour, and helping with the cleaning chores
  is no different. Make them understand that they
  will only be praised if they complete the chores
  to the standard that you have set out for them,
  while remembering that the standards may need to
  be lowered slightly, the younger your kids are.
  Should your child not be able to complete the
  task correctly and for whatever reason then
  quickly allocate them another chore and ensure
  that they are able to complete it to the best of
  their ability. Insisting that they strive to
  complete a task that theyre unable to, will only
  reinforce their sense of failure.

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• You might even want to create a chore chart that
  you can put up on the wall, and when each task is
  ticked off, they might be rewarded with points or
  a gold star this may not work on teenagers, but
  its usually a good method for your littler ones!
• Dont overwhelm them with instructions
• Younger kids will have a hard time processing
  complicated or lengthy instructions for cleaning
  or tidying up, so give simple and clear orders
  that they can easily follow and one instruction
  at a time, to avoid any confusion.

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