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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dishes and laundry are on you.

The toys though are on your kids. We ride our kids hard to keep their toys picked up and then it gets easier as they get older. I have a 4, 2, and 6 month old. The 4 and 2 year old clean up constantly and we have a 15 minute cleaning session before bed where we play music and they put everything away. They clear the table too, take their laundry to the hamper and put their shoes where they go.

I still spend 1-2 hours cleaning but my house is pretty immaculate. [/quote]

I like this idea and I'm stealing it! Question, do your kids put things away where they belong or just kind of put them anywhere. I'm struggling because my DD cleans up and then I organize after she's asleep. I know I should just let her do her thing and eventually she will get to the point of knowing how to put her toys away but I'm neat freak. [/quote]

They 100% know where toys go. Food goes in the kitchen, books on the shelf, magnatiles in that bin, stuffed animals in a large basket, etc. Even the 2 year old knows the system perfectly. I actually think toddlers are more into rules and order than we give them credit for. We have minimized toys but there's still a huge playroom's worth of toys. I rotate 4x a year. I set the system up and they know to follow it. DH and I are convinced that the more we have them do now, the less we'll tell them later. Like it took a few months at age 1 for them to take their shoes off upon entering the house and putting them in their rooms, but now they do it automatically the second they come in the door.

But, like i said, there's still a lot of cleaning for me. They can't mop or vacuum really. Both help cook but that takes a lot of assistance from us (but that's an activity we think is valuable and counts as us spending time together). [/quote]

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