What age should you stop cleaning your child's room?
Carley Kutch
2025-06-25 05:59:16
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Aged eleven and seven, they’re never going to leave their rooms spotless and get the furniture polish out. I desperately didn’t want to make this blog post about Covid-19, but I am noticing the untidiness a lot more while we’re all locked inside our houses for so much time each day. As part of our homeschooling day, Helen and Izzy are supposed to spend some time tidying each day. Most days they do, but it’s still not enough to keep things to the standard I’d like it. The flip side, of course, is that if you do too much for your kids, they won’t develop the independence and skills to live on their own. When the day comes and they do fly the nest, they’ll be in for a shock. I simply think Mrs Adams and I need to ensure the kids do a fare share of housework for their age. For now, I think that will mean helping them keeping their rooms tidy.
Elisha Stiedemann
2025-06-15 02:08:47
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Most kids do not naturally come out of the womb understanding how to keep their room clean. It takes a lot of training, even years worth of training. You are just setting them up for failure to send them off to clean without training. If you’ve been training your child for years and they still can’t keep a clean room, the answer is clear: they have too much stuff. You’ll know when your kid has the right amount of stuff because they’re able to manage it. With plenty of time and actual training, I have been able to say “Hey kids, go clean your rooms” and expect to hear a vacuum running at some point. The effort we put in building our kids confidence of managing their own space is worth it. Kids should clean their rooms regularly.
Beatrice Lueilwitz
2025-06-09 06:58:16
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My rule of thumb is, you let kids be responsible for their own rooms when you know they can do the job, because you’ve taught them how to do the job. If they can make a bed, put away clothes and pick up toys, you can hand over room responsibility, usually around age seven. Then it’s up to them to maintain it—or not. A kid’s room should be their sanctuary; it should be the one place they can go that is theirs. If parents can handle it, they should consider closing the door and forgetting about what’s behind it. There’s a difference between messy and dirty, in other words, toys on the floor are OK; wet towels and dirty dishes are not. Children need to learn there’s a time and a place for being messy, and there’s a time and a place for being organized.
Tianna Emard
2025-05-29 06:38:18
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I will always be there for my kids no matter the age. Cleaning her room probably gives me more satisfaction than it gives her, and one day she’ll have her own house to worry about. I could see where the critics were coming from when they roasted the TikTok mom. Indeed, it seems pretty clear this approach wouldn’t work for all families. But as someone who will cave and clean up my kid’s room, I feel that ultimately, everyone wins when I get up in that space and dig my daughter out of the hole she’s created. Because afterward, when I ask her to tidy up, she’s not as overwhelmed.
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