Lessons Learned: 3 Important Room Cleaning Tips to Teach Your Kids

Legos send sharp pains up your leg as you step on them. Tiny knick-knacks scattered around the floor. Colorful stains on the carpet.

Where are you? Your child’s room. Getting them to clean their room is a task, but cleaning it properly is a whole other chore.

You want your child to learn how to clean their room to your standards. You’ll need to teach them a few room cleaning tips to ensure this. The best cleaning tips for kids are simple ones that work well for both you and them.

To get started, continue reading below for a few cleaning tips you must teach your children!

1. Schedule Cleanup Times

Children won’t stop what they’re doing to pick up and clean. They’ll play all day, getting lost in their imaginary worlds until their bellies tell them to stop for food. Otherwise, they’ll continue playing and pulling out new toys every minute.

Children also do well with routines and need structure to thrive. To teach them how to clean their rooms, try giving them a schedule of cleanup times. Each day at the same time, have them clean up.

When the clock hits this time, they’ll know it’s time to clean and will be more willing to do so when you give them their reminder. You can also give them a timer that gives them a certain amount of minutes to finish cleaning. The timer will make it more like a game for them and more fun.

2. Have a Designated Place for Everything

If children aren’t sure where each toy is supposed to go, they’ll have difficulty cleaning their rooms. Rather than placing everything in its rightful spot. To prevent this, have a designated place for everything and ensure these places are clear to them.

You can label clear bins so they can see what’s in each bin and read what’s supposed to go inside it. Children can clean much better and faster when everything has a specific place.

3. Teach Them to Clean as They Play

Unless there’s a commercial cleaning service to come in and clean up behind them, like in daycare, you’ll want to teach your children how to clean as they play. Even if there’s someone to come in behind them and do the majority of the cleaning, it’s good to teach them these skills.

Rather than taking one group of toys and then taking out another when finished playing, teach your children to put the toys back that they’re no longer playing with before taking out the new ones. When the cleanup time hits, it’ll make it much easier for them to clean the entire room.

Teach These Room Cleaning Tips to Your Children Today

If you want your children’s rooms to remain clean and up to your standards, be sure to teach them these room cleaning tips! Once you teach them, give them some time to adjust to these cleaning tips. Before you know it, they’ll be cleaning like the pros!

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Carla Gayou
Carla Gayou

Carla is a high performing marketing professional with 5+ years of experience driving growth of in a variety of corporate and entrepreneurial environments. Strong command of digital operations with exposure to influencer marketing strategy, branding, analytics, SEO/SEM, customer success, content development, and social media Core expertise lies in managing end-to-end campaigns, creating memorable content, and facilitating improved conversion rates to enhance e-commerce operations. Adept in ensuring alignment with organizational goals, facilitating streamlined operations, and leveraging a data driven strategy used to make insightful marketing decisions.

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