Sunday, February 14, 2010
My twins are walking now, and no surprise, they have become quite skilled at getting into things!
The mother in me is proud to say they work together as a team. But I have to admit, they create enough of a mess to have the organizer in me stopped in my tracks!
Their team spirit looks like this: When they set about to empty the bookshelf in their nursery, my daughter is in charge of unloading the books and handing them to my son by one-by-one (he delightedly scatters them about the floor) until the bookshelf is empty. Then, all those pesky books out of the way, she attempts to climb the bookcase! As a result, there are books strewn across the bedroom floor making things very slippery and hazardous. In an effort to not let my organizer persona get in the way of their playfulness and obvious delight, I let them dismantle their room in just this fashion every night. Every evening before lights out, after I put them into their cribs, my job has been put all the books back on the bookshelf and the dirty clothes back in the hamper. Then I lovingly remove their tiny dirty socks from the sock drawer (my son thinks he is helping by putting them back into the drawer).
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to keep their kids’ rooms clean! And my own kids’ nightly ransacking of the bookshelf got me thinking even more about what I should tell my clients to do about the mess. The easiest solution is to purchase light weight, kid-friendly bins to store on the bookshelf: http://tinyurl.com/yckdh4m.
This way I can pull them down for them at night, and they can put the books back into the bins at the end of the night. As for the dirty socks in the drawers? Well, I’m still working on that one!
The mother in me is proud to say they work together as a team. But I have to admit, they create enough of a mess to have the organizer in me stopped in my tracks!
Their team spirit looks like this: When they set about to empty the bookshelf in their nursery, my daughter is in charge of unloading the books and handing them to my son by one-by-one (he delightedly scatters them about the floor) until the bookshelf is empty. Then, all those pesky books out of the way, she attempts to climb the bookcase! As a result, there are books strewn across the bedroom floor making things very slippery and hazardous. In an effort to not let my organizer persona get in the way of their playfulness and obvious delight, I let them dismantle their room in just this fashion every night. Every evening before lights out, after I put them into their cribs, my job has been put all the books back on the bookshelf and the dirty clothes back in the hamper. Then I lovingly remove their tiny dirty socks from the sock drawer (my son thinks he is helping by putting them back into the drawer).
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to keep their kids’ rooms clean! And my own kids’ nightly ransacking of the bookshelf got me thinking even more about what I should tell my clients to do about the mess. The easiest solution is to purchase light weight, kid-friendly bins to store on the bookshelf: http://tinyurl.com/yckdh4m.
This way I can pull them down for them at night, and they can put the books back into the bins at the end of the night. As for the dirty socks in the drawers? Well, I’m still working on that one!
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