When there are children at home, our home is no longer the clean and tidy place it used to be. Toys, books, dolls… they invade the house, we no longer have that much time and we are concerned if the house will be clean enough. We leave you some tips for good hygiene at home with children to clarify all your possible doubts and help you to achieve it.
Cleaning and children
When there are children the safest thing is that your house is in chaos, but cleaning should not stop being one of your priorities. The little ones scamper on the floor, drop things and put them in their mouths… We cannot sterilize the entire house, nor would it be good since their immune system would not develop properly. But if we can follow a series of tips to keep the house clean and be calm.
Surely you need change routines when cleaning, since you won't have that much time. Organization is vital so that you can make the most of the little time you have now. Division of tasks between parents, take advantage while they sleep, clean a little every day so that it does not accumulate ... Also, as children get older, we must include them in the routines of order and cleaning according to their age and abilities. Do not miss the article "How to teach your children to collaborate at home"It will help you a lot to start introducing small tasks at home.
The first thing we must do is know which are the areas of our home where the children spend the most time. There is where we must focus most of our energy so that it is clean and hygienic.
Tips for good hygiene at home with children
- Soils. It is the area that gets the most dirty and where children spend the most time, so you have to be especially careful with these areas. We must clean and disinfect the floors quite often, taking special care with the toxicity of disinfection products. Depending on the product, if it is very toxic such as bleach, it is better to dilute it in water and ventilate well, taking advantage when the children are not there. Remember to put them out of the reach of children.
- Beds. Every day make the beds and tidy up the room. Ideally, as they grow older, they are the ones who tidy up their room before bed and make their bed in the morning.
- The bathrooms. It is usually a busy place for the whole family so it must be clean and also disinfected.
- Reduce decoration details. Sure you loved them when there were no children, but let's face it they collect a lot of dust and they are a risk since children can break them and hurt you. Save everything that is fragile, leave only the essentials and thus you will have less to clean.
- Use boxes or cabinets to store things. Visually everything will be more collected and ordered, you will no longer see everything in the middle. It will help you when it comes to cleaning to be able to put all the toys together in one place.
- Make a weekly planning. Creating a planning with all the household chores and who will do each one will help you a lot to plan. So each member of the house will know what to do and everything will be much easier.
- Everything you can do in 5 minutes, do it right then. If there's a task like washing dishes, sweeping a broom, or cleaning a mirror that can be done in 5 minutes, do it. Because if you leave all those tasks for the weekend, it will no longer be 5 minutes, but it will be 2 hours for all those 5 minutes of tasks that you were putting off. If you do it a few times, the work will not have accumulated, and it will be easier to clean.
Because remember ... do not stress if your house does not seem like the magazines that are so unreal.