Every Friday, I like to kids to do a thorough job cleaning up the playroom. When I tell the kids it's time to start picking up, I get bombarded with whining and complaints.... and "but I didn't play with that" and "he/she isn't helping"... it was making me absolutely crazy. I realize that if I enforced the rule that after you play with it, you put it away, then there would never be a mess. However, enforcing this rule would require that I spend all my time following the kids around and reminding them to pick up.... not exactly helpful.
Today was different. I made a list of all the playroom clean up jobs I could think of (while waiting in the carpool line), tore them apart, and put them in a bowl. Each kiddo picked 5 jobs (and I got all the miscellaneous stuff) and got to work. It was magical. No complaining at all and the whole room was cleaned up in 10 minutes. Plus, when something wasn't done, I knew who was responsible! YAY to a clean playroom, no mommy meltdown, and no complaining.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment