I have a 5 year old . I’m always cleaning throughout the house, including his room. He always has some random stuff, food, ect,. We’re having problems of him not picking up after himself when done playing. He gets very lazy.. starts whining and complaining and talks back.. 🙃
I try to get my 2 year old to help clean up in between activities. Like if she was playing blocks but wants to get her crayons out and color, I tell her she has to pick up blocks first before we can color. Mine is also super motivated by the clean up song. I always try to get her to help me. It doesn’t always work right now because she’s 2 but as she gets older, I will enforce it more.
Cleaning done every morning and tidy up every night including toys put away x
I have a four year old boy- lots and lots of cars! We clean his room as a part of his nightly routine. We’ve been doing this since he could pick up items on his own. Now it’s a game! Can you put the magnet tiles away quicker than I put away the cars?? Do you want to drop him (car) on his head or on his butt? He thinks it’s hilarious! Of course we help him at this stage but doing every night helps it to not get too bad and he knows what to expect
Thank you guys, I always thought it’s a kid why does it matter but I see I need to be more ontop of it.
I know most people are telling you daily, but that's not the case for everyone. I work alot so I'm not home often. I would rather spend time each day WITH them, so if things aren't clean in their rooms, it may wait a few days. Ill make sure that they clean some stuff so we cash safely walk without stepping on toys when it's that bad, or ill clean a little bit... but then 1-2x a week is when it actually gets cleaned. I usually make them help me, but occasionally I'll just do it myself so it doesn't stay a mess if we've been too busy and i don't have the time or patience to wait on them helping with it
Daily . But my other kids that can clean their own I just ask them to . I help once a month with a big deep clean. They are pretty good at cleaning but not perfect. My toddler however is autistic and doesn't clean at all just tosses her toys
My son is 3 (4 in april) I clean it everyday but we rotate toys and don’t have a lot out so it’s not a huge disaster at the end of the night. I’ve been working with him to pick up messes…so if he dumps out a box of something and tries to go to another activity I’ll ask him to pick up his mess and I’ll help HIM pick it up. He’s 3, so I don’t expect him to help every time or even pick up everything but he has improved a lot and has even started cleaning up his own messes! I’m also a SAHM so it’s easy for me to stay on top of it