Adelaide Estate Clearances» toys http://adelaideestateclearances.com.au Adelaide's Downsizing and Estate Clearance Specialists Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:59:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.32 Don’t ask your kids to clean their room … http://adelaideestateclearances.com.au/dont-ask-your-kids-to-clean-their-room/ http://adelaideestateclearances.com.au/dont-ask-your-kids-to-clean-their-room/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:06:39 +0000 http://clearspace.net.au/?p=939 Instead of asking your kids

“Can you please go and clean your room?”,

try rewording it and saying

“Can you please go and spend 5 minutes putting things in their proper homes?”.

 

The request is much more specific and it’s measurable for them. The limit on time also helps them to not get overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.

It doesn’t matter if the room isn’t finished in 5 minutes, but after another 5 minutes a few hours later, and then the next day, and so on …

you get the picture :)

A place for everything…

 

 

 

 

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