If you shower daily, just wipe under the toilet seat daily, and every other day get behind the lid and the sides. Immediately after I shower, I wipe down the toilet. I’m not sure how long ago you wrote that, Mark, but if it helps, I like to do the bathroom in little chunks instead of all at the same time. While a perfectly tidy house won’t make all our dreams come true, I think it will help us not get too down in the dumps when we are nursing the “I’m-so-frumpy-all-I-do-is-the-dishes” syndrome. I don’t feel like a failure if it looks “lived in”, but I do think that teaching our children to clean after themselves and living tidy isn’t some form of child abuse. Sometimes I have all the kids wiping down surfaces with me. I have been known to see spider webs and ignore. I’m not saying everything is labeled – although I love my label maker – but simply everything has a place.īaskets and places for everyting make tidying easy because each evening you can put up a pile of things quickly when you know where each belong. I have baskets and places for everything. Furthermore, if toys don’t have a place they end up hiding where my foot finds them in the dark! Not good for anyones sanity! If things don’t have a place they end up on the kitchen counter…or so it is at our house. Simple, easy skills every month! Learn More Organize well Help prepare your kids for life, one skill at a time. However, if I let them run wild with things then I make them put it back later. Some days they do it happily, some days they run away.
Of course, some days this is me standing over them handing them a block telling them to put it in the basket. When they are finished we all pick them up together. I let them throw around their toys, games and blocks while they are playing. Read: An 18 Month Routine for Energetic Toddlers Is she doing this to pop my forehead vein?!?Īfter a while I realized that was not the case, and that I needed to figure out some good systems that let the kids be kids and let the house be neat and orderly, but still be home. Work with your children not against them.Īfter my first child started crawling and pulling things around I was personally offended.ĭoes she not know that I want the house to look neat?
I have to remember that my definition of tidy is different than it was before kids. But for me, tidy will still look as though the house is in order and picked up. The truth is, most company we keep wouldn’t even notice anyway.
I like to tidy up full#
It may mean that throughout the day there will be times when the house is in full play mode which means, obviously, that the house isn’t always “company ready.” Here are some super cute baskets for kids rooms.
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