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January 19 2019

Tidying Up Clothes

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Creating and maintaining organized spaces is not just about helping your child function more effectively. It’s also about establishing life long habits that will serve them well. Now that you’ve created an organized space, be sure to teach your child how to use it and maintain it.

Start with something that already has a specific space, the dresser. I have created some adorable labels for you or your child to put on her drawers so she can easily keep her clothes organized and maybe even help put away her own laundry.

Download them. Print them. Color them. Stick them on the drawers. And, watch the magic happen.

January 3 2015

Our Very Own Drawer Labels!

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I have created some adorable labels for you or your child to put on her drawers so she can easily keep her clothes organized and maybe even help put away her own laundry. Organization is important for children and adults alike. But, it is essential for right-brain dominant thinkers that struggle with internal order.

These are some of the things I think about when organizing for kids, or myself:

Prepare the environment. That’s a Montessori principle that reflects a very mainstream concept. It’s about getting things ready in the room before the activity begins. To get started, look at the structure of the room, the furniture, the way the room is used and consider ways to make it more effective.

Shelves, Drawers, Baskets and Boxes are your friends. Toyboxes are the worst place to store toys. A bunch of toys piled into a large dark space can mean nothing but chaos. Parts get lost, kids get overwhelmed and they can’t even see what they have to play with. To create order and a more successful play space, put up a few shelves. Be sure they’re at a comfortable height for your child. Place toys and play sets in baskets and boxes to help make choices visible and keep pieces together. Don’t forget to add labels!

Encourage Cleanup and Consistency. Now that you’ve created an organized space, be sure to teach your child how to use it and maintain it. Encourage one toy or activity at a time, be sure they know how to put things back before starting something new, and be the one to help maintain the order. Kids really do appreciate structure, and can operate more successfully, but they’re still kids. Be sure to be encouraging, keep it positive and make it fun.

January 2 2024

Starting the New Year with Organizational Bliss: A Guide for Kids

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As we step into the New Year, embracing organization can be a game-changer, especially for children and adults with right-brain dominance who grapple with internal order. With the arrival of this fresh chapter and the kids on break from school, there’s no better time to whip your home into shape, starting with the often tumultuous domain of children’s clothes.

To make this process engaging and practical, I’ve crafted some charming labels for you or your child to affix to drawers, empowering them to maintain an orderly wardrobe and perhaps even take charge of putting their own laundry away.

When it comes to organizing for kids, or even for oneself, several key considerations come to mind:

Prepare the Environment: Embracing the Montessori principle of preparing the environment before an activity starts is key. Assess the room’s layout, furniture arrangement, and its functionality. Strategize ways to enhance effectiveness and convenience for your child.
Shelves, Drawers, Baskets, and Boxes: These become essential allies in the quest for orderliness. A toybox might seem like the go-to, but things get lost in the depths, creating confusion. Implementing shelves at reachable heights for your child and storing toys in colorful baskets or boxes aids in making choices more accessible while keeping toy sets intact. Adding labels is a delightful touch that enhances organization further. Remember, the journey towards a more organized home is a family effort. Involve your child in the process; make it a fun bonding activity rather than a chore. Allow them to pick their baskets or assist in arranging shelves, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility.
Encourage Cleanup and Consistency: Creating an organized space is just the start. Teaching your child the art of maintaining it is equally crucial. Encourage the use of one toy or activity at a time, instill the habit of returning items to their designated places before starting something new, and actively participate in preserving order. Kids thrive in structured environments, but they’re still children, so infuse the process with positivity and make it enjoyable. Embrace patience. Inspiring organizational habits takes time, especially with children. Celebrate small victories and offer gentle guidance as they adapt to this new system.

In implementing these steps, you pave the way for a calm and productive household environment. By offering your child an organized space, you’re gifting them the tools to navigate their world with ease and confidence.

As we embrace the New Year, let’s embark on this organizational adventure together. By creating an environment conducive to orderliness, we equip our children with invaluable life skills, setting the stage for a year filled with harmony and accomplishment. Cheers to a well-organized and delightful year ahead!

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April 22 2020

Time to Get Organized!

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Organization is important for children and adults alike. But, it is essential for right-brain dominant thinkers that struggle with internal order. Now is a great time to get your home organized. Let’s start with their clothes.

I have created some adorable labels for you or your child to put on her drawers so she can easily keep her clothes organized and maybe even help put away her own laundry.

These are some of the things I think about when organizing for kids, or myself:

January 15 2019

Tidy Space, Happy Face

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Every year, after the holidays, I get the urge to de-clutter and reorganize. I head over to Target and sure enough the holiday isles have been cleared and restocked with plastic bins of every shape and size. I’m in heaven. I buy a few bins for my own projects and a few for kid spaces. And as much as I’m not looking forward to the work this is going to take and the mess I’m going to make, I know life is going to be so much better when I’m finished.

As much as a good purging and de-clutter is for us as adults, it is even more significant for our kids, especially kids with ADD and ADHD. Children are in the process of developing internal order and the space around them profoundly affects them. When they’re operating with clutter all around, they are more likely to have clutter and chaos inside. When kids learn to create and maintain order in their physical space, they create and maintain order internally. In short, order on the outside helps create order on the inside.

Here are some things to think about when it’s time to organize your kid’s room.

All hands on deck: A big cleaning takes team effort and will need to be done in stages. Start with your own private review of the room or area that needs organizing. To get started, look at the structure of the room, the furniture, the way the room is used and consider ways to make it more effective. Purge what you can on your own, especially those things you know need to go but will be hard for your child to part with. Then invite your child help with the rest. They can help sort things to be saved, tossed, given away and put back in place.

Keep it age appropriate: The amount of a child’s involvement depends on their age and ability to do the necessary tasks and to be able to part with things. A big cleaning can be very overwhelming, even for the adults involved, so be mindful about how much to include them. It may be best for you to do the majority of the work without them even knowing, then invite them in for the finishing touches.

Respect your child’s attachments: A healthy balance is a must. Be sensitive to what your child needs to save and help them learn to release. That old shoelace or paper construction may hold special value – but perhaps there’s a toy they can pass on to a friend. Whatever it is, help them find value in the sorting and giving, without it becoming a negative or traumatic experience.

Shelves, Drawers, Baskets and Boxes are your friends. To create order and a more successful play space, put up a few shelves. Be sure they’re at a comfortable height for your child. Place toys and play sets in baskets and boxes to help make choices visible and keep pieces together. Don’t forget to add labels!

Set expectations to keep it up: Creating and maintaining organized spaces is not just about helping your child function more effectively. It’s also about establishing life long habits that will serve them well. Now that you’ve created an organized space, be sure to teach your child how to use it and maintain it. Encourage one toy or activity at a time, be sure they know how to put things back before starting something new. Expect dirty clothes to get in the hamper, dishes to find their way to the sink and toys to be picked up and put away regularly. And from time to time, dig in, pull it apart and put it back together again – parental assistance required.

Please remember, de-cluttering and organizing is a pretty thankless job. I can still hear my kids moaning and groaning and it was twenty years ago. But now as adults, every one of my kids keeps a very well organized house! And they’re happy about it.

August 15 2018

6 Ways to Get Your Home Ready for School

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We’ve spent the last 4 weeks counting down to the start of the school year with academic activities for our visual learners. This last week of the countdown, we want to focus on preparation and organization to fill our visual learners’ need for order and visual clues as they get ready for school.

Get them involved. As you gear up for back to school, get your kids ready for the routine and schedule of being back to school by involving them in the preparation. Children learn by doing. They can help with the school supply shopping and labeling supplies once you’re home. The night before school, they should find and pack their lunch box, prepare their backpack, lay out their first day outfit, etc.

Establish a morning routine. Routines create predictability, which our visual kids have to have. They need to know what to expect and what’s expected of them, so they can focus on getting it done. Routines also allow kids to operate independently, a good life skill and it means lots less pressure on busy parents. Write it down. Keep it simple. Make it visual. Use color. List steps in logical order. And, post it at eye level close to the activity. To get your preschoolers started early, try this one.

Update their wardrobe. As you organize their clothes for the upcoming school year, have them help you review current shoes and clothes to see what fits and what might need to be replaced. These adorable drawer labels are a great tool for helping them get all of their school clothes in the right place and easy to find as they prepare for school.

Designate the landing zone. When the kids get home from their long day at school, having a specific place to hang their backpacks and place their shoes and jackets will make the transition easier. Make it accessible for everyone using it. That means making hooks for backpacks and coats at both a child level and an adult level and having a designated space for the shoes, boots, hats, gloves, etc. that need to have a place. We need to make it possible for our children to be able to take care of their own things and empower them to be successful with organizing.

Create a homework spot. Visual kids need to have a calm, quiet and organized space to do their schoolwork. A great way to start is to create a special space in your home and keep it consistent. The space needs to have everything that they need to be successful in completing their homework so they don’t get distracted trying to find the things they need. Some supplies to start with are pencils, pens, paper, ruler, calculator, highlighters, staples, etc.

Be prepared for them to be tired. Those first few days of school are an adjustment for any child. But, for our visual kids, they are downright exhausting! Our kids have spent close to 6 hours sitting in a classroom being bombarded by language, both in instruction and all over the walls. They are going to need some time to decompress when they get home. If there is time for a nap, great. If not, expect them to be more quiet than normal at dinner or need to go to bed early as they adjust to their new schedule.

Back to school is full of excitement, anticipation and anxiety so organization and visual cues are greatly needed for our visual kids. Doing these 6 simple things will work wonders in making it a smooth transition from summer to the classroom routine.

Tell us some of your favorite ways to get ready for being back to school in the comments below.

January 13 2018

The Sweetest Organization Tool for Kids

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Organization is important for children and adults alike. But, it is essential for right-brain dominant thinkers that struggle with internal order. I have created some adorable labels for you or your child to put on her drawers so she can easily keep her clothes organized and maybe even help put away her own laundry.

These are some of the things I think about when organizing for kids, or myself:

January 14 2016

5 Things to Organize for Your Child Today

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The Homework Station– It is essential for visual kids to have a calm, quiet and organized space to do their schoolwork. A great way to start is to find a space in your home and keep it consistent. The space needs to have everything that they need to be successful in completing their homework so they don’t get distracted trying to find the things they need. The space doesn’t have to be an office or desk. In our family we use the dining room table and we made a portable homework station that can be carried anywhere it is needed and put away when not in use. Some supplies to start with are pencils, pens, paper, ruler, calculator, highlighters, staples, etc.

The Drop Zone– We all have a space in our house that we drop our stuff when we get home. The key to getting this space organized is to make it accessible for everyone using it. That means making hooks for backpacks and coats at both a child level and an adult level and having a designated space for the shoes, boots, hats, gloves, etc. that need to have a place. We need to make it possible for our children to be able to take care of their own things and empower them to be successful with organizing.

The Art Area– Every house needs a space for creative pursuits but that area can get out of hand quite quickly without clear places for everything. The key to getting this space organized is to have an appropriate sized container and designated spot for everything. Putting a label on each container can be even more helpful in getting the kids to put things back where they belong.

The Dresser– The key to getting your kids to put their clothes away and keep them organized is to make it easy for them to figure out where the clothes are supposed to go. Try labeling their drawers. I have the perfect solution for labeling your child’s dresser for easy use. These adorable drawer labels that you can print at home and your child can color before putting them on the drawers.

The Playroom-Another space that consistently needs organization is those toys. Whether you have a dedicated play room or just a space in your living room where toys are kept, it is essential to keep this area under control. The best way to keep this area tidy and organized is to get colorful bins and boxes and label them with both a picture and words so your child has a visual cue as to where everything goes. Once the system is in place it should only take a few minutes at the end of playtime to get everything back in its place.

For more ideas and tips on how to organize your kid’s space, read Get The Kids Organized and check out my Tools and Tips board on Pinterest.

January 31 2015

In Case You Missed It…

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You may have one student in your home classroom or several, one learning style or more; but once you have an understanding of how your children think and learn, you can adapt or adopt teaching techniques that will make it work for everyone.

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The Lego Movie is an entertaining, highly creative commentary on the struggle between the Left and Right side of us – complete with an evil villain who wants order at any cost and a wild and crazy group of right brain creative types!

Chances are, your kids had more than enough stuff before the holidays – and now, after the holidays, they have way more than enough. Now it’s time to put things in order.

I have created some adorable labels for you or your child to put on her drawers so she can easily keep her clothes organized and maybe even help put away her own laundry. Organization is essential for right-brain dominant thinkers that struggle with internal order.

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