Simple Tips for Cleaning with Your Little Ones

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Simple Tips for Cleaning with Your Little Ones
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• It can be a real challenge to keep your home
  clean, neat and orderly when you have young
  children at home, but it is possible to achieve,
  provided you make your little ones part of the
  solution, and not the problem
• Let your toddlers help around the house
• Most very young children love to help out around
  the house, and often enjoy mimicking the cleaning
  and tidying actions of adults. While you wont be
  able to give them big tasks to carry out, you can
  have them help by picking their toys up and
  putting them away, or collecting place mats after
  a meal.

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• While preschoolers may be too small to make their
  bed in the morning, you can at least get them to
  pull the comforter up to the top of the bed
  small acts can make a big difference, and its
  important to be proud of each of their little
  achievements.
• Give them simple instructions, one at a time
• Rolling off a barrage of cleaning or tidying
  instructions is only going to confuse and
  overwhelm small children, so give them one,
  specific direction at a time. Visual aids can
  also help them to understand and remember what
  they are needed to do, so if a box has a picture
  of a toy on it, they will easily be able to see
  that their toys need to go in it.

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• Have plenty of storage containers
• Many containers for storing things in can be
  attractive and match your décor, so try to buy
  some (or make them if youre that way inclined)
  that you dont mind being left out in a room, and
  figure out what you want to go in each one. One
  box may be for puzzles for example, while another
  is for toy cars or dolls. Storage is a great way
  of helping to keep your home tidy, and your
  little ones will quickly begin to realise that
  anything left out after a play session, needs to
  be stored away.

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• Engage them with role play
• Many small children enjoy role play, so kit them
  out as a professional cleaner with a little
  uniform, and have them pretend that they have a
  cleaning company, such as Caseys Cleaning Crew,
  or Harrys Helping Hands. You can pretend to be a
  customer, and give your kids small cleaning tasks
  to carry out.
• Encourage your little ones and be appreciative of
  their effort
• While no small child is ever going to clean your
  entire home for you or even perform small tasks
  to the same standard as you, if they at least
  make the effort and try to do a good job, that
  should be reason enough to appreciate them and
  thank them for their efforts.

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• When they feel as if theyve really helped you
  out, theyll be keen to do so more often, and
  that should be a win-win.
• If your little ones are doing more to make your
  home dirty and untidy than they are to keep it
  clean and tidy, you could always call in the
  professionals and have a team of cleaners get
  your home spotless and shipshape for you.

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