Have your child empty out their backpack each Friday after school and put the papers in a pile to show you. Paperwork about upcoming events can be entered in your master calendar. Then put any paperwork associated with those events in a folder on your counter labeled “Upcoming Events.” Include you current school year calendar, […]
Teaching kids to tidy up their rooms
When you want your children to clean up their room, are they successful at it? Or do they seem clueless about where to start? Here are some tips to help teach kids how to tidy up their space: Sort through the room with them and get rid of anything they have outgrown, don’t play with […]
7 tips for organizing bathrooms
To keep your bathroom tidier, eliminate almost everything on the counter. Store everything in drawers or cabinets instead. This will make a daily swipe-down of the counter much faster for you. An easy way to organize drawers is to assign each drawer a different grooming need. For example, you might have a drawer for all […]
How to organize art supplies when you don’t have floor space for a cart
Some of our clients really like using rolling carts, like the Raskog from Ikea or rolling sets of colorful plastic drawers. These are great if you have the floor space. If you need to store things in a cabinet or on shelves instead, you might find the following tips helpful. Tip 1: I like to […]