Storage Bins Teach Children: Self-Esteem and Responsibility

                                                                                         

Many parents are looking for easy ways to teach their children self-esteem and responsibility. These areas can be touched on by teaching your child to pick up after themselves. Be careful not to make the chore seem like a stressful situation. Children respond best to things that seem interesting or rewarding to them. Keep this in mind as you proceed.
Forcing children to clean and pick up after themselves at an early age can make them despise the chore. You could be setting yourself up for years of fighting about cleaning their room. It is important to make sure that the child’s room is set up in a way that is contusive to organization and easy cleaning. In other words, make it an easy job to pick up toys and put dirty clothes where they belong.
Let’s start with toys. If you have shelves or bins for toys, make sure that you label them with something that the child can understand. This can change with age and it does not need to be anything extravagant. Digital pictures of your child holding the toy can make very motivating labels. Children identify with themselves and it helps to build their self-esteem to see that they were important enough to be put on the label. As the child matures, you can label containers with printed words to help them recognize certain common object words by sight.
Make it fun! Kids love to do just about anything that seems like play with an adult. Play basketball with soft toys in a large container. You can also play this game with the laundry hamper and dirty clothes. If your child is not interested, make it look fun by standing on the bed to see if you can make the shot from across the room. Most kids will not be able to resist challenging a parent to a game of laundry basketball. Come up with other ideas, such as races to see who can pick up the most blocks, or cars. Of course your child will win and be anxious to start on the next object. Let your child make up rules that you must follow. You will boost their imagination, self-esteem, social skills and coordination with each game that you play.
Come up with a score card and let your child place a sticker on each accomplishment. For every five toys they put away, they get a special larger sticker for their shirt or hand. The score card can be left on display in their room to remind them of how much fun cleaning was the last time and they’ll surely be interested again.
Letting your child help with chores is a wonderful way to teach them responsibility while spending quality time together. Let them set the table. Let them hang their own clothes on childrens hangers. Let them be a part of the day to day life in your house. You won’t regret it and they won’t either.

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About the Author: Ron Maier is the owner of Only Kids Hangers, a leading provider of childrens hangers. The right childrens clothes hangers really make the difference in kid's retail or home organization. For more information, please visit www.onlykidshangers.com.

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