With the holiday train sure to unload more
clutter, one of the best gifts just might be
empowering your child to get organized.
Research shows that people with tidier
homes sleep better, are healthier, and have
better focus. And as Marie Kondo cites
as the motivation for her new children’s
book, Kiki & Jax: The Life-Changing Magic
of Friendship, “When children learn how
to tidy, they realize what’s important to
them.” Teaching your child to clean can be
the gift that keeps on giving. Here are some
helpful tips and ways to empower your child
to tidy up.
Assign a place for everything. As
parents, we need to empower our children
to clean. And they can’t really clean if they
don’t know where things belong. So it’s
important for parents to do the underlying
work and create those bins and boxes. It may
even help to create boxes within boxes. And
if they are too young to read, you can even
label the boxes with pictures. By assigning
a place for their things and equipping
them with the tools to clean, they’ll feel
empowered to clean even when mom or dad
isn’t around to provide instructions.
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