Pictures of Billy's Kids Cleaning

These are pictures from our blog author, Billy Hoge. She was able to get her kids to clean at a very young age by making it a game.

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Lessons in Cleaning House

Found this interesting article with some great tips on getting the kids to help clean.

Lessons in Cleaning House

Cassidy (my nephew) and his friend

This is my holiday house in South Africa and my nephew is doing the dishes with his friend from a few houses away. I brought all 4 of my kids up to clean and share in the housework and they LOVED helping out. I have videos of them washing the car and scrubbing floors and doing windows from the age of 2. To them it was just another game. Today they have no problem doing their own houses. They are now 30, 28, 23 and 19 years old.

Team Carter

We already had a chore chart, it was just not being used, so I cleared it off and started fresh. I have two girls, ages 4 and 5. They each had a chart, with a blank one underneath that was to hold all the magnets, these are now my husband and mine. We each picked a chore to do for the week. One person is the chore monitor, in charge of asking if each person did their chore for the day and giving them a smiling face magnet. To my surprise, the chores that my daughters picked were washing dishes for the 4 year old, and taking care of the cats for my 5 year old, and yes I did explain that that meant scooping the litter box, she said that that was her favorite part. 10 years my husband and I have had issues with who was going to scoop the litter box, who knew that our 5 year old would love it!