Simone Davies
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1,174 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2016
last heard Oct 2022
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And once you finish the washing, that they would start taking responsibility for putting that in the right places.
We have a set day of the week when that happens that gives our kids a point of reference so they know that it always happens on a Monday, that their clothes are expected to go away without overwhelming them every day and randomly.
So they kind of like the predictability.
I think that kids who are differently wired would also kind of like to know that that's going to happen as well.
for younger kids sometimes having labels onto drawers like the t-shirts are in here and these visual cues can actually also really help because the easier you make it then the more success they're going to have so also the more success you have the less nagging you have to do and the more independent the children are becoming so we're basically using the environment to take some of our workload off because we're busy enough as we are there's enough going on so we always look to the environment how it can do some of our work for us yeah
So that's another area of the bedroom is like the wardrobe and then just like keep it really super simple for clothes that are dirty.
So have a laundry basket where we just have one in our bathroom, but some people have a hamper in their bedroom.
And I would expect that children would also be able to start to learn to put their things back on the floor.
And we always do it really positively.
Like instead of saying, don't leave things on the floor, we'd say, oh, these clothes go in the basket if they're dirty.
And they also can learn consequences eventually because if they don't put their clothes in the wash, then they don't have their favorite trousers ready again, you know, for the next day.
So that's something to build up to as they get older as well.
I think that these kind of parents, it probably doesn't come naturally for them to always put their socks in the same place or to set up that entrance hall.
that we talked about that it would be quite difficult so I would then get them to enlist a friend someone who is super organized you can just come in and help them get it set up because once it's set up it's not brain science it's not difficult and they might just need them to come and check on them in six months to check that everything's kind of still running as normal
But yeah, I mean, basically, maybe you could even for an older child say, hey, let's help each other because you know that I also struggle with putting my things back and you can help me remind me if I'm getting it wrong.
And then you're kind of like playing along with them and making a little bit of a game of it as well.
Or you can get people to come in and help you declutter and to help you set up your spaces and things like that if you're finding that you're also really struggling with it.
It might be a one-off thing.
One thing we haven't really talked about is actually getting rid of a whole lot of stuff out of your house anyway, because I find that with good intentions, we receive presents from people and we have extra clothing that we're not really using.
And so I think it's really important to just have a look at our spaces and get rid of some things so that it
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