How to teach my kids to be organized?
For parents who have children especially infants, it’s a daily challenge to manage the storage of the toys scattered throughout the house. Unless you are planning to enlarge your space, you need to find a realistic solution to solve your problem. The best way to achieve your goals is to involve your children very early in the storage process and act step by step. Curver can help you to organize your space with your children through teaching them simple and basic storage rules.
If you have toys scattered in every room of the house, it is time to define specific places to store them that optimize your organization: your child’s bedroom, his closet, a playroom area. This is also a way to identify precisely where the play areas are for your children in your home. And why not add a storage box in his room for obsolete games and toys? Easily accessible, this would encourage him - and you- to give away toys he no longer plays with to a charity organization.
Once you have taken this first sorting step, which is essential, you can now enter in the heart of the organization matter and focus on setting very functional spaces for children and toys in your home. Let’s put you in their shoes, to figure out what they can see and reach. Your common sense will guide you to position toys in his closet or in his room according to the accessibility issue. You can design and customize the closet to suit to your child’s needs. Toys that are fragile or need to be kept out of reach of little children will be on the top shelves, others which are used more often in the middle, and larger toys will be stored at hand on the lower level, or even on the ground in easy-to-use storage boxes.
More importantly, learning to store with fun is the key to getting your kids organized. You need to involve them from the start of this storage process, while explaining to them the main advantages of being well organized in their everyday life. Ask them where and how they prefer to store their toys. They will then be more inclined to follow your basic rules. They can help you organize their toys by category and identify each storage box with labels, drawings and pictures that you would have performed with them during ‘game time’. And when it’s time to tidy up, it’s time to find tricks to get them involved on a voluntary basis. Offer them to play a game aiming at putting the right toy in the right box as fast as they can. They would love it!
If you have toys scattered in every room of the house, it is time to define specific places to store them that optimize your organization: your child’s bedroom, his closet, a playroom area. This is also a way to identify precisely where the play areas are for your children in your home. And why not add a storage box in his room for obsolete games and toys? Easily accessible, this would encourage him - and you- to give away toys he no longer plays with to a charity organization.
Once you have taken this first sorting step, which is essential, you can now enter in the heart of the organization matter and focus on setting very functional spaces for children and toys in your home. Let’s put you in their shoes, to figure out what they can see and reach. Your common sense will guide you to position toys in his closet or in his room according to the accessibility issue. You can design and customize the closet to suit to your child’s needs. Toys that are fragile or need to be kept out of reach of little children will be on the top shelves, others which are used more often in the middle, and larger toys will be stored at hand on the lower level, or even on the ground in easy-to-use storage boxes. More importantly, learning to store with fun is the key to getting your kids organized. You need to involve them from the start of this storage process, while explaining to them the main advantages of being well organized in their everyday life. Ask them where and how they prefer to store their toys. They will then be more inclined to follow your basic rules. They can help you organize their toys by category and identify each storage box with labels, drawings and pictures that you would have performed with them during ‘game time’. And when it’s time to tidy up, it’s time to find tricks to get them involved on a voluntary basis. Offer them to play a game aiming at putting the right toy in the right box as fast as they can. They would love it!
