Teaching Your Child To Organize and Keep Their Room Clean
The skills and habits your child learns now are likely to be ones that will develop and last a lifetime. Be careful to teach and cultivate positive habits that you would like to see you child implement in kindergarten, grade school, high school, college and adult life. Who knew teaching your child to organize his blocks, cars, and stuff animals would have an effect on keeping school assignments together in order to be more productive in class? One way to begin teaching your toddler to be organized is to teach him to clean his room and put things in their proper place...and let's face it with all that we have to do, every little bit we don't, is a sigh of relief. Here are some suggestions on how to teach you little one to organize and keep his room clean.
1. Gather all toys and other items from out of closets, under beds etc.
2. Create 4 piles: Keep, Throw Away, Give To Charity, Misplaced item(should be in another room in the house.
3, Create and Label Bins to put like items in(IE: truck/cars in one bin, stuff animals in another, etc)
4. ) Define locations for where things should go. Clothes should go in closet, toys in labeled containers, books on the bookshelf and so on. Discuss with your child where each item should go. Remember when labeling containers make it conducive to your child's level of understanding. You would want to label a toddlers containers with pictures. Your child can see that the container with picture of cars should hold all the cars.
Teach your child to put one toy away before taking out another. Sometimes there will be items that your child will play with together such as stuffed animals and a tea set, however non related items should be put away.
Take the time to clean up with your toddler until he feels comfortable doing it alone. Praise your child and tell him how proud you are when he cleans up. Make clean up time part of your child's daily routine. Teaching your child these important skills now may save you time now and your child the frustration of being disorganized in the future.
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