cleaning with children (Hints and Tips for Household Cleaning)

Member Name: katyc

Product:	Hints and Tips for Household Cleaning
Date:	27/10/09 (25 review reads)
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I love a clean house there is something calming about a de cluttered lemony smelling home.

I would however love the cleaning fairies to do it whist I sleep unfourtenally it falls to me and on rare occasions my husband has a mad moment when the mess gets so bad t
hat he actually notices it!!

So as we cannot afford a cleaning lady and that the children constantly make a mess and yet it is impossible to clean with children helping! here are my top tips on trying to maintain a sense of order.

Firstly try to do as much as is possible once children are in bed or before they are up.

1) A place for everything and everything in its place. I have invested in plastic storage boxes with lids and have sorted the toys into there own boxes i.e music toys in one, dolls in another so instead of lots of toys strewn evrywhere only one box at a time.

2) Prioritse cleaning whilst you have children is like walking around in circles I clean the bathroom as I go in for my shower

3) My children get bored if I spend too long cleaning so we have a timer when the timer goes we do something fun because they know this more gets done and they will do there jobs possibly not brilliantally but they do it!

4) Routine however boring a routine means that you get things done more efficiantally a good one is start at the top and work down

I have two children 4& 2 who do help a bit and throughly ejoy the hoover dance are great at polishing and will do mop karoke all good fun and the chores get done , but it is important to remember that toys will apear almost as soon as you have cleared them away , your children will be gone before you know it and then you can have a tidy house but in the mean time head for the park!

So in Summary

1) make it fun

2) set a time limit

3) have a routine

4) try and organise if everything has a home then its quicker

5) do as much without the kids as is possible

6) be time savvy ( I clean the bath and shower whilst I am in the shower)

7) get the children to help and have chores ( my 2 year old is the cleanest)

8) work from top to bottom it is quyicker )

9) relax a litle

Stop reading and get on with the cleaning!!

Summary: make it fun