What is the best way to get children to clean their rooms?
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M$So it was either suck it up and just clean my room, or clean my room and do a different chore. So my brother and I learned quickly to just clean our rooms.
My own life experience
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Tossing all my toys and things that were out on the bed and told me that anything not put up in it's proper place (not under the bed or on the closet floor) by bedtime where getting thrown in the trash or given to charity.
That's really a last ditch effort kind of thing though. She only had to do it twice before I got the idea and started picking up after myself.
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M$Reward them for a clean room.
Take away privileges for a messy room.
For example,
- All dirty clothes will be in the hamper
- All trash (tissues, papers, etc) in the trash
- Nothing under the bed
- All clean clothes - folded, and put away
- The floor vacuumed
- All school work, papers, put away, and backpack hung up.
Inspections are on Thursdays at 4:00 PM
Reward, and hour of Wii time, gamers choice
Punishment, no chocolate, or Wii all weekend, but can be redeemed by passing the inspection, and paying $5.00.
(My kids don't get much money, this is 5 weeks worth of allowance, or 1 week of hard labor in the yard.)
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I think clearly communicating what clean is and HOLDING to that is important. (Setting and holding boundaries are always good to model.)
And (as another answer said) that worked for this parent... saying "If you don't clean it up, *I* will." And when *I* clean up, it's packed up and thrown away or, preferably, given away.
I think that punishment is rarely a good motivator and learning a sense of pride and character for cleaning up is imperative.
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