Clutter and hoarding: Here are 6 quick ways to declutter your kids’ bedroom
Cleaning your child’s room can be quite a journey. It can be a challenge because you never know what you are going to find there. You might find gum wrappers, candy wrappers, or even a frog! We all know that it is important to have a clean room for our children because a clean room better supports their good health. And because we care about our children, decluttering and organizing their room also helps us feel better as parents. We announce 6 quick ways to declutter your kids’ bedroom.
1. Involve your child in the activity. Children love to help out and do things with mom and dad. Be sure to assign your child chores according to her abilities. Sometimes we expect more than what they can offer.
2. Including a child in the activity is an opportunity to further develop your relationship with your child in a loving and responsible way. See if you can make a game out of it. Ask your child to put all the green toys in the toy box. And then after you do that, sit on the floor together and read part of a story together.
3. Repeat this process for, say, the blue toys. After her son puts away the blue toys, the two of them sit together and read some more in their chosen storybook. By doing this, she is teaching her son the self-discipline to clean up her room and encouraging him to do things at a pace that is reasonable for him or her.
4. Another benefit of you and your child playing clean up your child’s room is that your child learns to accept responsibility for himself. This is an important skill for the child to develop as she grows up.
5. Another thing you can do while working with your child is to play music while you work together cleaning up. At some point, after her son achieves another cleaning goal, maybe you’d both like to sing and dance. When you’re enjoying what you’re doing, time seems to zoom by.
6. And another thing you can do while decluttering and organizing is to celebrate all the while enjoying the feeling of accomplishment while cleaning the room. You and your child can clap, dance, or do anything else to make you and your child enjoy what you are doing.