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Getting Children To Clean Up
Cleaning is not an intuitive skill. Although at times I wonder if I was born with some rare genetic gene for tidiness. There are ways in which parents can teach the value of cleanliness. Although children don't need any encouragement to spread their toys about or flick paint around. Cleaning up takes a lot of coaching and this could be a lonely task for a social child and at times it can feel like punishment or a never ending task.
Tips on how to help your child clean up. You may begin to see that your child wants to help you clean. So be a tidy role model. That means you must model the behaviors you want to see in your child. Young children actually learn best through experience and not always through formal instruction.
Young children love to be a part of team effort and they like to help. So enlist them as your little helper, when a child spills something or makes the mess you can verbalize. I see you spilled, we better clean that up. Want to help, mummies always help kids don't they. To help them get more involved, have a place for everything. Storage boxes, shelves, cabi.
Soon your child will begin to remember where everything should go. Enlist puppets or use social play during times of clean up. Sing songs or make up silly rhymes as you put things away. If you encounter they are not so good listener, you can bring to their attention the natural consequence of not cleaning. You can say, we have got to get to the park, but we can't leave these toys everywhere, you need to pick them up.
It's not that children don't want to clean up by themselves or complete the task. It's that they simply don't have the ability to focus at such a young age. Make sure that your task list is age appropriate. Task that kids can do by themselves, help parents pick up 18-24 months and up. Pick up small mess of toys, three-year-old.
Put clothes in hamper four and up. Thoroughly wash hands alone four and up. Carry plates and cup to sink, four and up. Pick up messy room, four and five-year-old. Brush teeth with assistance, four-year-old. Brush teeth alone, five and up. Make bed, six and up.
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