Are you getting fed up and tired of cleaning after your kids or trying to keep the house clean but often to no avail? Well, who are the ones messing them up if it’s not your children? So, get geared up and start working together with your kids to clean up!
It’s very simple to get your kids join in if you start by telling them what you want them to do now and next. Let them have a visual picture of what they should be expecting and choose your words properly to avoid having them rebel instead. Since they are still too young, explain to them the necessity and importance of cleaning up to let them know the consequences of being dirty and untidy too.
A little hype genre of music would ease up the mood for all of you while cleaning and could even help to make the job done faster! Yes it doesn’t have to be boring after all as you can make out a game like challenging them to finish their task before you finish your own separate task. After all, what’s there to waste when you get to spend some precious time with your children doing activities that could build your rapport with them while having so much fun doing chores that you normally dread to do so?
In case your kids aren’t familiar of where certain things go, you can put a label on the drawers and cupboards to make it easier for them to help. Of course, if you want them to help, you should also make their job easier instead of troubling them and frustrates or irritates yourselves answering their frequent questions of where to keep things.
The rule for you parents is to not fix things that your kids have done. The point is to get your kids start taking their responsibilities in helping out doing house chores. Be it cleaning their room or putting away their things or cleaning the whole house and it could have been really hard to get them started. So, once they completed their job, don’t expect it to be perfect as kids will never clean up better than adults yet.
A reward at the end of the clean up is definitely a yes! It doesn’t has to be of gifts as it can simply be a compliment, encouragement or even a hug or smile would really make your kids day. They would not only feel appreciated but this would boost their confidence to participate again on the next time voluntarily! This would eventually teach them living skills needed in their future to survive daily as well that they would surely be thanking you for your efforts today.