Parenting 101: Teaching Kids How to Clean Up After Themselves
New parents have to deal with a lot. Sleepless nights, tricky schedules, diaper changes, balancing work and personal lives, and a million other things that no one had prepared us for. We get swept up in our children’s lives, and since we love them so much, we take on all the responsibility. Instead of teaching kids to clean up, we end up doing it ourselves. Good habits in kids need to be taught early on so that it is something they learn growing up, but most parents are reluctant to teach them . Why is that? Well, one reason is that our kids are our responsibility, which means cleaning up after them feels like it is our job. But if we don’t start developing good habits such as cleaning at an early age, it will become impossible to get them to do it later on. Photo by Elnur House cleaning for kids should be a mandatory learning practice, such as toilet training or finishing homework on time. It builds a strong foundation and value system, and kids learn the best ways they can be