How To Make Cleaning Fun For Your Kids

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How To Make Cleaning Fun For Your Kids
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• If your kids moan and groan at the thought of
  having to help clean the house, especially if it
  involves a marathon spring cleaning session, then
  why not check out the following tips for getting
  the little ones actively involved and how to make
  it more fun for them
• On a mission!
• Why not try encouraging the kids to complete
  certain aspects of cleaning/tidying up within a
  timeframe, so that they can treat it like a
  competition. You can even get involved yourself,
  and race them to finish certain jobs as quickly
  as they can. For this to be successful, you may
  need to add the incentive of a prize if they can

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• do it quickly (and effectively) enough. Provided
  the task you set arent too challenging and the
  rewards are satisfactory, you could have them
  doing this all day long!
• Role play
• Kids love to pretend play, and so why not combine
  this with a little light cleaning and tidying
  away by getting them to dress up as maids or
  butlers? Encourage them to pretend that theyre
  cleaning up after some messy kids who live in a
  palace, or something like that! You could even
  get them to pretend that theyre filming a
  cleaning commercial in front of the cameras, and
  let their imaginations run riot!

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• Cleaning caddys
• Buy a small cleaning caddy for your kids and fill
  it with the mini tools that they will need to
  help you clean up around the house. A duster, a
  little brush and pan, and any other items that
  they can safely clean with, should help them to
  take ownership of their cleaning duties and they
  may even take pride in using it to keep their
  bedrooms clean and tidy, if nowhere else!
• Cleaning charts with performance related stars
• Making a simple chart with cleaning duties for
  your kids to follow, can prove a real incentive
  for them, especially if they are rewarded with
  gold stars for performing

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• the duties particularly well. If you have at
  least a couple of kids involved, this can work
  even better, as they will seize upon the
  opportunity to be competitive with one another.
  Of course, you may have to implement an incentive
  for reaching a certain amount of gold stars, with
  the addition of a small prize, but that could
  well be worth it if they grow to enjoy, and
  become accustomed to, helping out with the
  cleaning.
• Call in the professionals!
• It may be the case that aside from your kids
  hating the prospect of helping you clean the
  home, when they do get actively involved, they do
  it begrudgingly and

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• dont perform any of the tasks to the right
  standard some kids can even end up making your
  home look messier and dirtier! If this is the
  case for you, then it may be easier all round to
  call in a professional home cleaning company to
  get the tasks done quickly and effectively, while
  you entertain the little darlings!
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