5 Secrets to successful cleaning with young ones

Cleaning your home before kids has its own set of challenges, but they grow exponentially when that changes. To get things done, you will have to get used to approaching the cleaning process differently.

Basic Cleaning Tips with Young Ones:

Declutter regularly

The more things you have cluttering your home, the harder it is to get your kids to understand where things go, or to put them away. The best place to start decluttering is the bathroom, just throw away most things you don’t find necessary. Going through your home once is a great start, but having kids means you will need to declutter regularly. That would stop incidents with kids breaking or accidentally swallowing something.

Keep Everything in its Place

When you have kids around, you will need to ensure that everything does stay where it’s supposed to. You need to make sure the item’s place makes sense to your kids and the rest of your family. If you put things where they don’t belong or make sense, then your children will be less likely to follow your example. Observe the habits of your family and get your home organized in a way that fits those, so it all feels as natural and non-intrusive as possible.

Keep Rotating Your Toys

Once you’re done decluttering the toys, you will find out you have far more than you want to keep in your arm’s reach at all times. You can counter that by having a toy checkout system in place, something that allows you to keep toys organized by theme, giving you a chance to have way less of a hassle when you’re cleaning. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a chart, but you can put puzzles in one location, action figures or plush toys in another and so forth. Keep things organized and in specific locations to have an easier time later during your cleaning routines.

Get Cleaning Routines Established

If you didn’t have the time to establish routines like these, you don’t really need to worry about it. Daily cleaning routines work best when they are incorporated into your morning and evening routines. You want to make them a habit, something the kids can help with as well. Doing so allows you to keep the clutter at bay, but also makes the mess accumulate far slower than usual. A weekly cleaning routine will involve deep cleaning, unlike the usual tidying. When your children grow up, you can give them more responsibilities, helping with the weekly cleaning. You can also have them establish their own cleaning routines and take care of their rooms when they are grown enough.

Don’t Expect Perfection

Since preschoolers may not have the best coordination and dexterity yet, especially when making their beds or putting toys away, you should be patient and careful. Have them pull the comforter to the top of the bed at first. Start small and express your pride in your child’s small accomplishments, so they may lead to greater things. Give one instruction at a time, but keep things specific as you do. Putting the toys in the container, making the bed, all of those are good and simple enough to allow for actual results. You can use visual aids such as pictures of the object that needs to go in a certain box or bin, keeping things thematic and easy to understand even from toddler age. This should give you a massive advantage later on when you have to deal with cleaning and greater challenges.

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