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How to Get Your Child to Clean Up: These Tips Work – Even If You're Totally Desperate
06.07.2024 18:10
Many parents, wanting to make their child's childhood as carefree as possible, protect him from household chores.
But such behavior is comparable to a double-edged sword: if you “protect” your child from household responsibilities, he will get used to an easy life and grow up without acquiring such qualities as independence and responsibility.
Therefore, before it’s too late, try to involve your sons and daughters in cleaning, and our advice will help you with this.
Give assignments and praise for completing them
Children like to be good - if you praise them, they will want to help you.
Teach them to do everything in order
Let the child understand that the next action can be performed only when the previous one is finished: if he was playing with blocks and then wanted to draw, let him first put the toys back in place and then take up the pencils.
Don't scold or shout
If the child does not want to clean up, try to focus his attention on what you want and offer to do the work together. You can do it like this, for example: “Please give me that cube – I will put it back. Well done! And one more, and then we will put all the dolls to bed.”
If your child is over 2.5 years old, you can use the reverse psychology method to encourage them to clean up. For example, if your child doesn’t want to clean up, offer them a competition: “I bet I can pick up all the cars/dolls/blocks faster than you?” or “I bet you can’t load all the blocks into the basket on the car? Show me how you do it!”
Don't redo the cleaning after your baby
If your child sees you correcting everything he does, you will ruin all his efforts - instead, continue to show how it should be done, do it together and motivate.
Motivate your child
Suggest doing something interesting after cleaning – making a craft or going for a walk.
Don't get hung up on just one thing: ask your child to help you with different tasks throughout the day - some of them will definitely interest him.
Earlier, BelNovosti wrote about how boys should not be raised .
