How do you teach your kids to clean their room?
That's a great question, and we're going to talk about that today.
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All right, on to today's show, which is from a woman
who has been hired by another woman who has five children.
And the woman said, "Come teach my kids how to clean their rooms and clean up after their themselves."
And it's a valid question.
How do you teach five kids how to pick up after themselves if they've never been trained properly?
All right, so this is interesting, and it's a valid question, but what it comes down to
is every kid has a different learning style.
Some kids listen and they pick up what you say because they heard it correctly.
There are some kids that are visual.
They got to see you do it, and then they connect the dots and go, "Oh, yeah, I can do that,"
and then, there are kids, they have to feel the clean, like, "Oh, yes, I feel that this
is so clean," and they have to touch the insides of the sinks and they have to run their hands
along the sides of the countertops to feel that it's clean, so my suggestion to you would
be, since you have five children and it's going to be all different learning styles
from those five kids, that you do a combination of all three of those things.
If you've been hired, my suggestion would be find a time that you can get all five of
them together. Because, even though they're different ages, you're going to be covering
the same information and you don't want to do it five different times.
So put together a program that includes the feeling, the audible, and the visual aspect of cleaning.
Now, the next thing I might mention, it doesn't matter what the ages of the kids are, but
you want to get the kids involved in the teaching process, and so as you go into a room, and
my suggestion is just pick one room at a time, don't go in and teach them to clean the whole
house at once because that's overwhelming.
And they're probably not going to clean the whole house at once,
any of them ever, so pick a room.
Let them choose the room that you want to clean.
That way, they get involved.
"Oh, yes, let's clean this room."
Now, they're involved.
When you go in the room, ask them, "If we were going to clean this room, what do you
guys see that needs to be cleaned?" and let them give you the information.
Don't go in and say, "Hey, let's do this, this, this and this," because that's your data.
Now, let me share with you about your data versus my data, okay?
Here's how it works.
If I'm the teacher and I just give you data, that is my data, okay?
That belongs to me, but if you participate and you engage and you interact and you give
me some feedback, that's your data.
Here's how that works.
If I give you information, here's my information, to you, you can argue with that all you want.
You can say, "Well, that lady's crazy.
That, that data doesn't mean anything to me," but once you get involved, once you start
sharing your data back, that's your data.
People will never argue with their own data.
They'll argue with someone else's data, but they will not argue with their own.
Does that make sense?
Okay, so you want to go in and you want to say, "Hey, what do you guys see that we need
to pick up?"
Let them give you their data, "What is the best way we can pick this stuff up?
Out of the five of you, who has the best solution on picking this stuff up?" and let them show
you what their solutions are.
"Now, as we put this stuff away, who has the best solution for putting this stuff away?"
Let them give you their data.
They will show you.
They will jump through all kinds of amazing hoops that their mother does not know that
they have.
They know how to pick up the stuff.
They know how to fold it.
They know how to put it away.
Watch them and, if there's something that you can tweak, "That's really great.
I like this idea.
There's one way we can do it a little bit faster.
You want to see how to do it?" and have them go, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Show me how," and then you might highlight something that they did that's excellent,
that will work.
"Hey, this is an excellent approach.
Let's do this.
Do we all agree?
This is the new way we're going to hang this up.
Do we all agree this is where this goes?"
Let them all give you their data.
Let them buy in to what it is you're selling them, and what you're selling them is a clean room.
"Once the room is clean, how will you know the room is clean?"
Let them tell you.
Let them tell you how they will recognize the room is clean because that goes back to
the feeling part of it.
"When I walk in my room and my room feels clean, what does that feel like?"
Let them tell you because if you give them your data, they won't recognize it when it
hits them, but if they give you their data, they will recognize it because that's their data.
Okay, so now that you have come to some agreements on what the room is going to be and how the
room is going to be cleaned and what systems or methods or whatever you're going to use,
there has to be some kind of a time schedule because if I say, "You go clean your room,"
what does that mean?
By when?
For how long?
At what point does my room become clean?
It's going to have to have some kind of a time frame.
Like every night at 6:00 p.m., your room must be clean.
And along with that must come an
inspection and, if the parents are not in a position to do an inspection, you can have
the kids do an inspection on each other, and so you can say, "This week, this person is
in charge of inspecting the rooms every night at six o'clock.
The next week," and it rotates, "this person is in charge of inspecting all the rooms at
six o'clock.
The next week, this person is in charge," and you have the same formula that everyone
follows, and so what you might do is you might put together a checklist that has the elements
they have created.
Now, I did not say the elements you have created.
I said the elements they have created, okay?
This is their data, so the elements they have created, and you put that together on a worksheet,
and you buy a clipboard as part of your investment into this family because they're paying you
for your time to do the training.
You buy them a clipboard.
Provide them, say, 10 or 15 of these sheets, and so, every week, there's a new person,
and you can write the names.
"This week, Julio is in charge of the inspections.
Next week, it's going to be Anna," or whatever, and you can write their names at the top and
you can put the date on them at what point they become the inspector, so this becomes fun.
It becomes a game.
You might even install the blue ribbon thing that we've been doing for years with kids
where you have a contest, and the person who has the cleanest room gets a blue ribbon,
and so you can buy the packs of blue ribbons on Amazon and whatever, and I will put links
to them in the show notes, so you can also buy them at the learning supply stores, and
so they're inexpensive.
They end up being about a quarter a piece, and the person who has the cleanest room at,
let's say, the end of the week gets a blue ribbon, so you're going to have people fighting
to try to clean their room, to have the cleanest room, so that at the end of the week they
win the blue ribbon.
Now, the blue ribbon is not edible, so you're not going to add extra weight to your kid
by doing this.
It's not something that can be shared and it's not something that anyone gets freely.
Everybody does not get a blue ribbon.
There's only one per week that's given out.
By doing that, you create scarcity, and, with the scarcity, everybody has to jump through
hoops because they want to be the one that hangs the blue ribbon on their mirror at the
end of the week.
By having the scarcity, by having something that's not edible, it lasts.
It stays around forever.
Now, the weird thing is this.
We've done this inside kids' homes and, 10 years later,
the kids still have their blue ribbons.
I mean, they may have gone, come and gone through school and they have different things
that they've won, but they hang on to those blue ribbons as if it was a badge of honor.
And so you want to make sure that the kids are recognized and in an honest way.
I say an honest way, not everybody gets a blue ribbon because it dilutes the value of
trying to fight to get that blue ribbon.
All right, so those would be a couple of suggestions for teaching children how to clean, because
the cleaning itself is not difficult, and it doesn't have to be perfect, okay?
These are not professionals that are going to get called back for a satisfaction guarantee.
These are kids that live in a home and their mother just needs basic tidiness, so if you
let the kids provide you with that information, they are rewarded for that and there is a
system in place, believe or not, it's a system that will stand the test of time and, as those
kids go out on to their own, they will be tidy adults and they will take those skills
and those behaviors into their own homes.
Alrighty, that's my two cents for today, and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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