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If you are a parent, you know that one of your biggest organizational challenges when it comes to maintaining a clean and tidy home is your children. Getting kids to clean up their bedrooms and playrooms and stay organized can be an uphill battle. Children often do not understand the value of organization. There is no better time than the present to teach those important life skills, however, which will come in handy throughout their lives. It also simplifies your life as a parent if you can get your children to help keep the household in order. How do you motivate kids to clean up?

• Set an example. If you are disorganized, your children will follow suit. Do regular chores to tidy up different rooms throughout your house. If your home is already pretty organized, consider embarking on a new project, like organizing your kitchen, closet, or garage. Show that you are having fun when you are organizing. Don’t complain about your own organizational tasks. Do what you can to make it look like an exciting game. Make children curious about organizing, and they will want to get in on the fun.

• Don’t organize for your children. Give them the responsibility of cleaning up their rooms on their own. Kids often like to feel like they have a sense of territory and privacy in their rooms. They will come to see organization as a negative activity if they sense you are constantly interfering. Allow them to come up with their own plan to organize their rooms, and offer to give them your ideas and input if they want help. Let them do the actual organization process themselves.

• For toy cleanup time, pay attention to your child’s cues. If he prefers his privacy, you may want to let him clean up by himself. Many children will respond well though if cleanup time is turned into a game, for example, a race to see who can put away the most toys in five minutes.

• Provide your children with helpful home organization supplies. Plastic bins on sale are affordable and easy to use, and even small children typically have no problem with them. They are lightweight and stackable, and perfect for storing small toys which would otherwise easily become lost. Without helpful supplies like these, organization can be a lot more challenging. And in order to facilitate daily toy cleanup, an organizational system needs to be in place. Make it easy not only to get organized, but also to stay organized. This will speed up the daily chore.

Children often resist the chore of organizing their room, but by taking these steps, you can encourage your kids to get their bedrooms and playrooms in order. Once there is a good organizational plan in place, your kids will also have an easier time cleaning up their toys each day after playtime. This will free up your time as well so that you can get on with your own organizational projects.