Easy Tricks to Help Keep Your House Clean when You Have Children

Although it is close to impossible to keep a house clean when you have children, these easy cleaning tricks may help cut down on some of the mess and grime and begin to teach kids to take some of the responsibility for clean up or mess prevention.

Wall Cleaning Tricks

Children seem to be drawn to dirt like magnets to steel. If kids are not supposed to get something they are using on the walls, inevitably they will. When you paint a room, write down the paint name and color in case of massive wall accidents when Johnny or Suzie decide it is a good idea to try out their new markers on the walls. For smaller touch ups, keep small sealable containers filled with paint for each room and a foam craft paintbrush with each container. Label the jars with the room name and store them where you have easy access to get to the paint quickly. When one of the kids gets spots on the wall that you cannot wipe or wash off, you will be able to fix it easily without repainting the whole wall.

If your small kids are messy eaters or get their hands in everything, teach them to walk to the sink hands in the air to keep temptation from running fingers along the wall at bay until they have cleaned up. Make a game out of the practice so they learn the technique.

Carpets and Floors

In some cultures, it is common to remove your street shoes when you come into a home. It is a practice that makes sense, both for health and hygiene reasons. Keep the carpets cleaner and give them a longer life span by not tracking the dirt into the house to begin with. Kids are not the only ones who have things sticking to their shoes that will muck up the carpets and floors that baby brother is crawling around on.

Remove shoes at the entryway. Provide cubbies or establish a specific spot to set the shoes after the kids remove them. Invest in some slippers or socks with non-slip bottoms that family members wear when they remove their shoes and return them to the cubbies or spot when they put their shoes back on to leave the house. Get a pair for each child and every adult and a few pairs for visitors. Get every family member into the routine at the entry door whether it is the front door or a garage door they enter.

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