How to Maintain Order at Home with a Young Child

A young mom, like no one else, knows that order at home is important. How to make household chores easier and reduce cleaning time — we explain in this post.

Organize together with your child

Make organizing simple and accessible, even for a child: ensure that the trash can, laundry basket, and, of course, toy boxes are within reach.

Do not place construction toys on upper shelves or hide pencils and markers in containers that a toddler won't be able to open without your help.

Assign a place for every small item

If playdough and paints are stored on one shelf today and another shelf tomorrow, it will be quite difficult for a child to put them back in place.

Get boxes, baskets, and organizers for all small items. If needed, label them with notes indicating what is inside.

Get household helpers

Transfer as much as possible to household appliances. Definitely buy a dishwasher if you don’t have one yet. First, it will save plenty of time and effort for young moms. Second, it saves water (as much more is used in hand washing). Third, at high temperatures during machine dishwashing, almost all common microbes die, which is very important in a home with a child.

Keep up with new household chemicals

Modern manufacturers offer dust-repelling products for furniture and flooring, anti-fogging agents for windows and mirrors, moisture- and dirt-proof treatments for textiles, and many other items that help maintain order in the home.

Set up a child’s art exhibition

To avoid having to collect children's artwork all over the house, store drawings, cards, and collages in an organized manner. For example, you can put them in folders or photo albums.

And the most beautiful and heartwarming ones — place them in frames to create a kind of home exhibition. The display can be changed as the child grows and new works appear.

Pay attention to magnetic holders

Magnetic holders can be excellent aids in storing small metal items — for example, toy cars or girls’ hairpins and invisible clips.

Implement toy rotation

Modern children often have quite a lot of toys. A child can’t play with all of them at once, and sometimes they have to go through entire boxes looking for something interesting.

Implement a kind of toy rotation: temporarily remove some toys. When the child gets bored with what’s at hand, take out the hidden ones and hide the ones that have become boring.

Hide all “non-child-safe” items

If your child is not yet big enough to understand what they can and cannot touch, keep all “non-child-safe” items as far away (and high!) from the child as possible.

Pay attention to special latches for sliding doors and drawers. Don’t forget about key-locked cabinets and boxes with locks.

Plan for temporary storage

No matter how hard you try, even the cleanest households can’t maintain tidiness 24/7, especially when there’s a child in the family. For situations where unexpected guests are literally at the door and there’s no time to organize everything properly, it’s useful to plan temporary storage.

This can be a specially designated shelf in a dresser, a box on the attic, a basket, or a trunk. The key is not to turn such temporary storage into permanent use.