Organising household chores with children
Having children at home does not mean giving up on keeping your home clean and tidy. Follow this routine to organise the housework with children.
How to organise household chores according to their age
Housework is always cyclical, done between 2 and 3 times a week and almost always, with some exceptions, done the same way. We give you a series of ideas to distribute household chores among the whole family.
- Make a list of all the chores you do every week. These include cleaning, washing clothes, ironing, cooking and shopping, or looking after the pet, if you have one.
- Identify the difficulty or dangerousness of each task.
- See how many members of the family there are and what their ages are so that you can adapt the jobs as best as possible.
- Set a schedule for all family members to do the chores at the same time.
Once we are clear about how many people there are, and all the chores we have to do, we can go to consum organizator and use this tool to help us to organise the cleaning of the house.
We must take into account the ages of the children to assign them the different tasks.
From 2 to 3 years old:
- Organise their toys
- Eat on their own
- Throw things in the rubbish
- Water the plants
- Take clothes to their room
From 4 to 5 years old:
- Dress on their own
- Wash themselves
- Set the table
- Put food out for the pet, if there is one
- Start washing the dishes, or put them in the dishwasher with the help of adults.
From 6 to 7 years old:
- Make the bed
- Organise their room and their things
- Prepare their school bag
- Help to vacuum
- Dust furniture
From 8 to 9 years old:
- Bath on their own
- Clean the floor
- Take care of the pet, if there is one
- Prepare breakfast
- Help in the kitchen with adult supervision
From 10 to 11 years old:
- Clean their room
- Hang out their clothes
- Look after a younger sibling
- Look after the garden, if there is one
More than 12 years old:
- Take out the rubbish
- Clean bathrooms
- Sew on a button
How to organise children's toys?
- Find a place to put them, whether it's their bedroom, the dining room or a room you have free. If all the toys don’t fit in one room, and your children play in the living room, you can dedicate a corner of it to store some of the toys. A wicker basket or a space on the shelf or sideboard can be useful.
- Containers, boxes or baskets are excellent for everything to be perfectly organised. Ideally, they should all be the same to give a sense of cleanliness, order and balance.
- Make groups of types of toys and classify them in these containers. Cars with cars, cuddly toys with cuddly toys, dolls and accessories together, puzzles with puzzles. If you can, store vertically and put the games that require supervision at the top, and those that are used the most and do not require adult supervision at the bottom.
- Add labels to the containers with the contents inside. If the children are very young, you can help them with drawings so that they know what goes in each box.
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