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ORGANIZING TIPS OF THE MONTH: JULY 2007
10 Organizing Tips for Uncluttered Kids’ Rooms
School is out—kids’ mess is in. Get out of the heat and get together with your children to bring their cluttered rooms under control. When you use organizing systems which children can maintain, you give them the gift of independence. You also free yourself to do other things. Organizing with children goes more smoothly when someone outside the family helps with the process.
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- To encourage kids to keep their rooms organized, use products that are child friendly. Use bins they can easily carry and shelves within reach without climbing. For safety, secure shelf units and easily tipped furniture to walls.
- Put small items in small bins, large items in large bins. When a lot of small toys are stored in a large bin, children become frustrated when they search for toys and end up dumping everything.
- Label, label, label. Use words for young readers, pictures for toddlers. Children are more likely to return items to labeled homes.
- Place a laundry bin in every bedroom. Even dirty clothes need a home.
- Put oversized books and those without a spine in sturdy bins or baskets. Store the books upright so readers can easily flip through the books rather than dig through a pile.
- Use closet rod extensions to bring hanging clothes down to child level. This allows children to manage their own clothes. Fabric sweater stackers that hang from closet rods put folded clothes within a child’s reach.
- Use plastic under-the-bed bins to store dress-up clothes, fashion doll collections, and plastic construction blocks. The bins are shallow for child-friendly access and they easily slide under the bed for out of sight storage.
- Place toys which may require supervision, such as paints and puzzles, out of children’s sight and reach. This cuts down on surprise messes.
- Consider removing closet doors which are awkward or difficult for children to open. Children are more likely to put things away if there is easy access.
- To help keep a child’s room organized, have an agreement with the child (and yourself!) that there can be no more toys than those which fit in the storage bins and shelves. If a new toy comes in, an old one can be donated or given to another child.
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