"housewifery ennui"

[Anonymous]

OP -- it is time to add some new cleaning routines to your family's life.

Every morning or evening, whenever it works for you and everyone is together, announce to your 3 year old and your husband that there are some new cleaning routines that everyone in the family is going to have to do now that the family is getting bigger, work is getting harder, everyone in the family has to learn to do do extra chores etc. etc.

Teach your husband and your preschooler to turn on the shower attachment and spray down the shower or bath after each use. Your preschooler can't really do this so your husband should help him, but it should be done after each shower or bath -- spray down the walls and floor of the shower or tub.

Ad a squeegee to each shower or tub and have your husband an dpreschooler squeegee down the wa;;s pf the tub or shower as well.

Hopefully that will take care of the worst of the mess. SOme peple also use some kind of shower spray after each shower. I forget what it is called, but I hear it is great.

Now, teach you husband and kids how to use a tissue to wipe down the lid of the potty every time they use it, too. No soap needed, just after each use, lift the toilet seat and wipe it, then flush. Show your husbandand preschooler how an adult can do this while a child is being supervised in the bath. Either you or your husband should wipe down the toilets every day. Have your preschooler help remind dad that that job has to be done while your preschooler is in the bath tube

Your husband can also wipe down the spatter on the bathroom sink with another toilet tissue. Teach both your husband and your child that this should be done after toothbrushing every day, also someone can take a tissue and wipe around the sink a little bit.

These are small little things but they will add up and make your home less of a mess. But you need to tell your family how to do them, and your husband needs to show your child how to do them on a daily basis!