Cleaning. Get the Children Involved in Cleaning - Continued

The new dusting mitts are great for having children help out with the dusting on the end tables, around the corners of the floor and even in their playroom. The dusting mitts, found in just about any home store or center, fit right on your hand and you just dust away. You can use the dust mitts that include furniture polish or a dry dust mitt that will just pick up the dust fast. Either way, a child of any age can help with this task around the house so that you can free up a few more minutes in your schedule.

When you are discussing with the children, from seven to seventeen, about helping out around the house remind them that you are busy and that if all the chores get done you can rent a few movies, you will take them swimming or that you will let them use the computer an extra hour this week. What ever their favorite things are, you can let them have more of or a special treat because they are helping out with all the chores around the house.

You need to make the chores seem as if they are not so bad, heck everyone has chores to do in the home!  Just keep talking about how things get done so much faster when they help you (even if they are not perfect) and you will find that as they keep doing their chores, they will complain less, they will try harder to please you and every one is going to be so much happier in a clean and organized home!