CHAPTER 21
How To Organize Your Family To Help With Home Edit
O
rganizing yourself at home has great benefits, but it can be hard to achieve if you work 40 hours a week or have a family to attend to.
In case you have children, you will know that the amount of mess produced in the house increases exponentially, and
it can be a little mission to help them and to keep them tidy after helping.
If you did not teach your kids to clean up when they go from the beginning, starting with their childhood, it would be more challenging but not impossible to do so. Kids in the house mean that you will not progress if you clean up and untidy behind you.
Nothing is as demoralizing as having your work done in short order. The trick would be to use the natural tendency of a child to please, learn and copy what adults do, and learn how to clean as well as maintain their spaces. You would begin by giving them age-specific tasks.
For example, it is quite acceptable for a child aged four to pick up
their toys after they have finished playing with them. For older children, they can at least be moved if they are reluctant to help and advise them that they have two choices: either they can sort through their things or you can.
How can this be encouraged?
The best way to ask the kid to pick up his toys would be something like this: "Once you have put away your toys, you can. Encourage them to watch a movie, come to the table to eat, go for a walk to the park, etc."
They also want to do the same when they see you tidying, as listings tend to emulate the older ones around them.
When you say, "do this before you can do that," you also show
them and expect them to finish one thing before going onto the next one. This is an excellent habit of developing and growing up with them. When you add, "after you have finished this, you can do that," you also tell them they can do things. This is a much more efficient saying to consider than "you CAN'T DO this until you have done that."
Not only can you teach them healthy dressing habits and complete activities, but you also inspire them to see life from the viewpoint of CAN.
It will be beneficial and will certainly motivate them to move on with their lives.
Using some of these strategies for the practical side of organizing
your house:
Demand your family's support if you live with your family. After all, in this case, not all the mess and confusion will be yours.
Tell them that, as soon as the house is cleaned as well as organized, you will all enjoy living there as soon as possible, and whenever visitors come by, instead of feeling humiliated by the state, you will enjoy visiting them at home.
Getting your home organized can make it a lot easier to find everything you are looking for, and it is going to be a place for everything to put away. Part of the problem with a bogged down-home is that there are so many things that, most of the time, they do not have a place to be located.
When you have inspected everything and found a place for everything, which might include things you have held, storage, and a heap of items, you are going to keep your home nice and tidy. If you were successful in arranging your things, it would not be too difficult to keep the house that way.
The advantage of cleaning with a team effort is that you can organize yourself at home much quicker, and everyone can feel happier once the job is done. The positive side effects of your children often do not want to rush out their excellent work, and they will always hold others accountable for keeping it safe.
So, how can you get started?
The first thing you need to do is to have a strategy. Decide how
and when you want to do this.
First, get all the supplies and equipment you need to clean and organize your land.
After you have sorted everything out, you have a pile of anything you do not need or want anymore. You can give it away or sell it in case it is still in an excellent working state, and you are pleased to know that you are recycling valuable resources instead of only throwing things away.
Knowing that you also support others is a beautiful feeling and promotes caring for and sharing with your children.
Organizing at home has some significant spin-offs and reduces your stress.
If you have done that, it is easy enough to hold it. It is significant. Why was all this hard work wasted to plan such a big project again later?
To keep your house safe and tidy, do a little bit until it is a routine each day. Replace the old habit of putting it off by forming a new habit today before tomorrow.
You can also help your family make it a routine so they can learn how to organize themselves. This can then become part of daily life, but it will certainly make a difference for your stress-free life!