How Do You Help Kids Get Organized When They Have the Bedroom Blues?
Cluttered Child's Room
How can you help your kids get organized if they are struggling to keep it together in their own room? Maybe they don’t even want to get organized. Actually, the odds are that they don’t want to get organized! I’m a mom and a professional organizer and no, my kids rooms are not always neat, actually they are frequently quite messy. And I have found that a lot of it is age-related. When they were really little I was right in there cleaning up and helping them put things away. As they get older they seem to go through a phase of being fine with a mess and then the next phase seems to be wanting a more mature room and cleaning it on their own as they see fit. Now I was a neat thing in my own room growing up so this is all new to me.
Follow these 5 organizing tips to help your own kids get organized as you see fit:
1) Teach children from a young age to put away items of the same type together. Keep a bin of blocks, a bin of dolls, a bin of dress-up clothes, a bin of Legos, etc. When it’s time to clean up, help them sort so everything doesn’t just get tossed together.
2) Give your children tools to succeed by giving them enough places to put things away so they don’t all end up on the floor. Give them shelves to display keepsakes and toys as well as labeled bins to put things away. Give them bookcases for books, hooks for coats, closet space for clothes and toys.
3) Maximize storage space: Don’t be afraid to place shelving up high just for display items that your child doesn’t need to reach. Move your child’s clothing bar down low in the closet and place extra shelves as high as you can go for more toy storage. Use the back of the door for hooks and use bins under the bed for storage. They have a lot of stuff in a small space, maximize it.
4) Cut them some slack. If you child is getting older, consider letting them have a mess but choose one day a week that order has to be restored. That’s what I did so I didn’t go crazy every time I walked into the room knowing that on Sunday it would be cleaned up so things couldn’t get too out of control.
5) Help kids go through old toys and clothing for a good purge at least twice a year. Allow them to sell items if they would like to get some money from their belongings. This will make room for the new stuff that is sure to make an appearance.
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I really like this article. Especially the last tip about purging and selling items if they’d like to get new stuff. I’ll be sharing this with my sister. She’s in need of cleaning her son’s room. Thanks for sharing!!!!
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