Comments on: How to Organize Household Cleaning with Kids https://treasuringthemoments.net/2011/01/19/how-to-organize-household-cleaning-with-kids/ "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecc. 3:1 Wed, 04 May 2011 05:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Elisabeth https://treasuringthemoments.net/2011/01/19/how-to-organize-household-cleaning-with-kids/#comment-411 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:39:53 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/?p=693775#comment-411 In reply to Lily Pyatskowit.

Lily,

I love the solution you have found to your problem and it might be interesting for us to try your idea to see if it works even better. I’m always open to new ideas and yours looks like one I should try although the way we are currently doing it works very well for us. I know cleaning on Saturday’s doesn’t seem to motivate us either. Thank you for sharing the way your family does it.

Elisabeth

]]> By: Lily Pyatskowit https://treasuringthemoments.net/2011/01/19/how-to-organize-household-cleaning-with-kids/#comment-409 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:12:11 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/?p=693775#comment-409 I love your ideas. Sounds like a very workable solution to getting it all done.
We have always cleaned on Fridays and I prefer to do it then, but this year we have science co-op and literature circle on that day, so we are experimenting with different solutions.
At first we cleaned on Saturday, but with Joel being home and the kids preferring to go ice fishing and such, it didn’t work out too well.
At this point, I have divided the house by days…
Monday- we catch up on laundry and clean the basement.
Tuesday – I do bookwork and we clean the upstairs
Wednesday- bathroom
Thursday – clean the downstairs
Friday – shopping, errands, and co-op
Saturday – bathroom
Sunday – rest
I have a master list that I made when I was training my oldest children, that includes everything that needs to be done for the room to be cleaned. We do not use them anymore, since they know what is expected. They prefer to pick a room and clean it, although sometimes I try to mix it up, by having one child dust and another vacuum. Isaac (9) and Becca (5) have specific tasks to do, such as vacuum the steps, dusting and so forth. We turn on a story (Lamplighter Stories are wonderful) and get busy. We normally spend about an hour doing house-work each day.
Blessings,
Lily

]]> By: Tracey https://treasuringthemoments.net/2011/01/19/how-to-organize-household-cleaning-with-kids/#comment-404 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:32:40 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/?p=693775#comment-404 The chart is a wonderful tool! Our housecleaning day is Saturday and I am so thrilled to have my daughters help with age-appropriate chores. It does take more time to train them in the beginning, but at ages eight and ten, they are truly a help to me!

]]> By: Joane https://treasuringthemoments.net/2011/01/19/how-to-organize-household-cleaning-with-kids/#comment-388 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:46:23 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/?p=693775#comment-388 Hmmm…. Awesome idea! Thanks for sharing

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