How to Be Less Frustrated and Exhausted by the Mess Your Kids Make

Are you dealing with a constant cycle of cleaning up after your kids?

Due to COVID, kids’ activities are limited and family rhythms are dismantled or at least disrupted. Some of you have kids who would normally be at school, but are now home learning remotely. The kids actually never leave…and you never get a break. Keeping your home neat and organized can feel like a hopeless, endless effort.

  • Just as you’ve tidied up the kids’ work stations for tomorrow’s school day, they pull out their toys and scatter them all over the floor.

  • Or, you want to encourage their reading. But do they have to take every book off the bookshelf that, truth be told, you’d like to organize by color?

  • And, of course, one meal, one snack, one meal, one snack, and on and on means you pretty much have something to do in the kitchen at all times – whether it’s preparing the next meal or cleaning up the last one.

What is the problem? Is it you? Is it your kids? Why can’t you have a home that looks like all those other homes on Pinterest?


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