How to Get Your Kids to Clean Their Rooms 🪄 •Help Them Out For younger children, help them out. Pitch in so cleaning doesn't feel like an insurmountable task to them. We all know it's much easier (and more fun) to make a mess than it is to clean it up. Sometimes kids just need a little extra help to get them going so they can finish the task. •Give Them Direction We often bark, "Clean your room!" And, sure, the kids know what the room is supposed to look like when it's clean but do they know how to get it to that point? Give them direction so they can get in the habit of recognizing what needs to be done to get the room clean. Initially, you may need to sit in the room with them and tell your children to pick up their books. When they're done picking up their books, give them more instructions, such as, "Put your clothes in your laundry basket." •Turn Cleaning Into a Game You probably don't think of cleaning as a fun activity. Neither do your kids. Turn cleaning into a game to make it fun, though. Let them ring a bell when they finish a task. Put a timer on a chore and see if they can beat the clock. It doesn't take much to make cleaning fun for kids and it can make all the difference in their attitude about helping out. Later we’ll give you the whole article on this topic, but now you can send us your ways of teaching your kids to tidy up the room and we will also share them 🤍