8 Tips on helping young kids to tidy up their room
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Kids and messy bedrooms are nothing new! So here are some tips on helping young kids to tidy up their room. Ideas that will help your little ones sort through the mess, rather than resorting to simply sweeping everything under the carpet!
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Ideas that will help your little ones sort through the mess, rather than resorting to simply sweeping everything under the carpet!
8 Tips on helping young kids to tidy up their room
1. No need for bribes & rewards
To help foster independence, managing tidiness in young kids rooms often works best if they're are guided and encouraged, rather than when it's enforced or when your resort to bribes and rewards
2. Have a spot for each item
A place for everything and everything in its place is an adage that rings true in young kids rooms.
With a spot for everything, they’ll be more apt to put everything back in its place and will increase their enjoyment next time when it isn’t a chore to find a misplaced item.
3. Provide bookshelves and wall shelves
Bookshelves and wall shelves are not only great for books, but also for displaying some of your kids cherished toys and artworks.
4. Provide plenty of storage
Install built-in cupboards and drawers, storage units, hooks, bins and baskets, all at a height and position that are easy for your kids to access.
Label shelves and bins to clearly organize what goes where – use words if your kids are old enough to read, or photos and symbols if not.
Multi-coloured hooks hung at the perfect height for your kids are both decorative and practical.
5. Make tidying up a routine
Set up a clean-up routine policy that works for your kids, family and lifestyle. Adapt tasks to suit young kids where need be.
Ideas include:
6. Provide assistance where it’s needed
Depending on the age of your kids, provide the assistance they need to get the tidying up underway.
For younger kids, help them with the task and engage them with games or stories that encourage cleaning up, while teaching them independence and responsibility for their things.
7. Reduce, reuse
These days many kids have so much more ‘stuff’ than they need, while others do not.
For those who do, if possible employ the policy of ‘one item in, one item out’, keeping the number of toys down to a minimum and don’t be too quick to replace anything that goes missing or breaks.
Try a regular purge, fostering a practice of donating items and clothing to charity that your kids have out-grown or have lost interest in, reinforcing the positive environmental impact they are making in the ‘reuse’ loop.
8. Don't forget the laundry!
Encourage your kids to not only pick up their toys, but their dirty clothes too.
A laundry bag or an old pillow case hung to a door helps to make laundry day a little easier if dirty clothes are picked up and put into it every day.
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