Instead of asking your kids
“Can you please go and clean your room?”,
try rewording it and saying
“Can you please go and spend 5 minutes putting things in their proper homes?”.
The request is much more specific and it’s measurable for them. The limit on time also helps them to not get overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.
It doesn’t matter if the room isn’t finished in 5 minutes, but after another 5 minutes a few hours later, and then the next day, and so on …
you get the picture đŸ™‚
A place for everything…
LOVE THAT! Will ask my kids to do that now before dinner.