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How to teach a child to clean in his room? The honest answer will be "no way." A child and order are incompatible things, and this should be taken for granted. When you realize this and do not have false hopes, it is much easier for you to accept the harsh reality and just enjoy life.
However, the above does not mean that you do not need to be accustomed to order. Why do this if the result is unattainable? In this case, we are working for the future and get the solution to the following problems in the process:
- We show the child that the tidied room, where each thing has its own place, is convenient and simple;
- Do not turn the room into a landfill;
- If necessary (once a week, a month or before the grandmother’s visit) we quickly and bloodlessly bring the children’s habitats to an acceptable state - first, by joint efforts, and after a while, the children will be working without the help of their elders.
Possible more optimistic scenarios?
At whatever age of the son or daughter, no matter how you begin to get accustomed to order, there will not be any special deviations from the above scheme. Understanding that the result is far and foggy helps to avoid disappointment, bad mood and tired parents, that is, you.
The pursuit of order in the nursery is a process, it must be conducted, and someday you will see the fruits of your labor. But for now, tune in that in the coming years no one will collect lego from the floor without reminders.
Are there any exceptions? Yes of course. Legends say that sometimes, very, very rarely, children are born who, by their nature, like to arrange toys in shelves and boxes and in their things are always clean. If you are so lucky that this is about your child, you can not read this text to the end, you do not need it. For the rest, not so lucky parents, I recommend moving on to the next paragraph.
Where do we start? From the beginning, of course
In the room of the child it is necessary to equip places for storage of things. To make it convenient for himself to get clean linen, socks, pajamas, there is nothing better than a small chest of drawers. You can take each box for a certain type of clothing. If the boxes are large enough, separate boxes placed at the bottom of the boxes under socks, panty hoses, t-shirts will help to store things neatly.
Already in kindergarten age, the child will be able to take things from there in the morning and put them there with his mother after washing. Over time, he will want to do it on his own, time will pass (hopefully, not for decades), and he will do it without reminders.
It is best to hang things that need to be stored on their shoulders so that the child can take them and put them in place. If this is difficult to do in the cabinet, you can purchase or make a free-standing barbell with legs. The option is simpler - to attach a wall hanger with several hooks, on which to hang two or three shoulders with ironed shirts, for example, or other actual clothes.
Ordering toys
This is a very important topic: we love children, we strive to please new designers, dolls and cars, and after some time we understand that toys fill the entire free space of our housing.
Here you can follow several simple rules that will simplify the cycle of toys in the house. You just need to accept the uncontrolled entry of toys into the house and their secret reproduction, stop worrying about this. According to my observations, after a child turns ten, you can already buy toys of certain directions, most loved by the child, then they arrive somewhat more slowly.
In general, make it a rule to sort out toys, give away unused, throw away broken ones. I remember that soft toys in huge packages were tidied up on the mezzanine, and no one remembered them. Then, after a couple of months, you can swap places - get packages from packages, put another batch in packages, and again on the mezzanine. The effect is as if new dogs, cats, raccoons appeared.
Cribs, doll kitchens, strollers were inherited by the daughters of friends to the joy of the parents of both sides. Our daughter voluntarily parted with them, since she no longer played with dolls.
In order not to dump all the toys in a messy pile into large boxes and chests for toys, although, of course, you can’t do without them, I recommend using containers and boxes for storing smaller things. Pencils, eraser, ruler, felt-tip pens and paints - in a container, a box of coffee, tea or shoes; small toys - in another box; the designer is in the third box. You can even sign them.
Then the cleaning itself becomes a game: sort with the mom or dad, throw away the unnecessary and thus achieve a relative order, and during the analysis also find something interesting in the far corner or under a layer of something.
Instead of conclusions
Dear mothers, fathers, grandparents, have you already understood that it’s impossible to teach a child how to maintain order in a room?
- Take for the purpose to teach the child to appreciate the order, to understand that it is more convenient and pleasant to live in the order. Then, perhaps by the age of 16–18, and someone very lucky by the age of 12, your boy or girl will independently maintain a more or less sanitary condition in his abode;
- Take care of the nerve cells and don’t freak out, finding in the child’s room the next Waterloo and the Battle of Borodino at the same time;
- Organize convenient storage of clothes by type;
- Provide storage space for all types of toys and items.
Childhood will pass, verified. Then it will become easier for us adults. Maybe.
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