Comments on: 6 Ways To Motivate Your Kids To Clean http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/ The Mabelhood is the sum of all blogs, combining posts from Mabel Labels' bloggers Julie Cole, Caitlin Madden and a cast of guest bloggers. The Mabelhood documents the daily dramas of a group of people raising families and a label making business, plus everything else in-between. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: The Mabelhood - Organize Your Laundry Routine to Prevent Pile-Ups http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-3408 The Mabelhood - Organize Your Laundry Routine to Prevent Pile-Ups Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:22:23 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1331#comment-3408 [...] the hanging items to their closet. Let go of perfection when they are young just as you would with cleaning, but fine-tune their skills later [...] [...] the hanging items to their closet. Let go of perfection when they are young just as you would with cleaning, but fine-tune their skills later [...]

]]> By: Deanna http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-3261 Deanna Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:38:55 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1331#comment-3261 My son's allowance is not a 'given', but neither is it directly earned via a 'price tag' on each household task completed. He will be paid his allowance, provided he has kept up on his own small set of responsibilities such as cleaning out his lunch pack each day after school, keeping his room tidy, and being cooperative when asked to help out with various other small tasks. Bigger tasks, such as helping to clean out the basement or car washes/clean out, window washing, etc. are offered as opportunities to earn a bit of a premium on top of his allowance. Additionally, if he wants to spend some fun time with me, I tell him how much I'd love to! ... and I'll have time to do so, as soon as my 'needs' are done; would he like to help me with ___(kitchen clean up; laundry folding; whatever) ____, so that we can both get to the fun stuff that much sooner? ;) Works like a charm! My son’s allowance is not a ‘given’, but neither is it directly earned via a ‘price tag’ on each household task completed. He will be paid his allowance, provided he has kept up on his own small set of responsibilities such as cleaning out his lunch pack each day after school, keeping his room tidy, and being cooperative when asked to help out with various other small tasks.

Bigger tasks, such as helping to clean out the basement or car washes/clean out, window washing, etc. are offered as opportunities to earn a bit of a premium on top of his allowance.

Additionally, if he wants to spend some fun time with me, I tell him how much I’d love to! … and I’ll have time to do so, as soon as my ‘needs’ are done; would he like to help me with ___(kitchen clean up; laundry folding; whatever) ____, so that we can both get to the fun stuff that much sooner?
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Works like a charm!

]]> By: Ramona http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-3246 Ramona Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:45:27 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1331#comment-3246 Kids don't realize that cleaning is "work". They think it is super fun. So thanks for the great ideas - start 'em young, and they'll just continue out of habit. We owe it to them to make our teenagers better family members. My son told me just the other day that his friends didn't help out at all around the house. He does, because we have always valued his help, and felt it was our responsibility to teach him how to do such things. Kids don’t realize that cleaning is “work”. They think it is super fun. So thanks for the great ideas – start ‘em young, and they’ll just continue out of habit. We owe it to them to make our teenagers better family members. My son told me just the other day that his friends didn’t help out at all around the house. He does, because we have always valued his help, and felt it was our responsibility to teach him how to do such things.

]]> By: Samantha http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-3243 Samantha Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:56:46 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1331#comment-3243 That video is hilarious! Letting go of perfection is definitely a must. Who cares if you can see the tag sticking out at the bottom of the hand towel? In the end, things like that do not matter. Thank you for this! That video is hilarious!

Letting go of perfection is definitely a must. Who cares if you can see the tag sticking out at the bottom of the hand towel? In the end, things like that do not matter.

Thank you for this!

]]> By: Julie Cole http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/6-ways-to-motivate-your-kids-to-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 Julie Cole Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:13:08 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1331#comment-3240 I'm gonna try them all! I’m gonna try them all!

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