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There never seems to be enough time in a day when you are a
mom. Keeping your sanity and trying to keep the house in
order seems like an impossible task. A few simple home
organization tips can help you keep your home organized and
even your kids organized. You can even get them to help!
Getting and keeping your
home organized can save you
time, stress and headaches. It does not have to be hard but
it does require a bit of planning. And getting your kids
involved in getting your home organized can not only help
you but teach them valuable lessons as well. The trick is to
make it fun both for you and for them.
Let’s start with the basics: Set aside some home organizing
time every day. Many different home organization tips books
encourage this one. Keeping your home organized is going to
require some specific dedicated time every day. Use this
time to organize mail or to focus on a specific home
organization project.
And while you are working on your home organization project,
have your kids either working on their own home organizing
project or have them help you with yours. This helps teach
them good life lessons about staying organized and gives you
some helping hands with your organizing projects as well.
Use some creativity to keep it fun and interesting for both
you and your kids. Let’s face it, most home organization
tips and tricks are boring and dull. But you can make it fun
if you just use a little imagination. Some ways that you can
make home organization fun is by making it a game. Make it a
contest to see who can get their room cleaned up and
organized the quickest. Make sure there is a reward at the
end that makes it worth it for your kids. To “test” how
organized your kids’ rooms are, ask them who can find you a
pen or a specific kind of toy first.
For younger kids, you can incorporate imaginative play into
home organization. Make getting and keeping their toys
organized a way to teach them and have fun at the same time.
So explain the noises that each of the toy animals makes as
you put them in a specific drawer and explain that all of
the animals “live” together in that drawer. Then do the same
thing with the toy cars, etc.
As a working mom, one of the best home organization tips I
ever learned was to plan out the meals for the week. This
saves me so much time and headaches throughout the week.
Every lunch and dinner is planned and sometimes even
partially prepared by Sunday night. The part I like the most
about this one is that it allows me to spend more time with
my daughter because I am not trying to figure out what I
need to make right before mealtime and whether or not I have
the ingredients.
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