October 9, 2020 by Mulberry Maids
Cleaning a whole home on your own can be difficult and time consuming, so enlisting the help of your family to clean should not be overlooked. This will help you save time, and can help keep your home looking cleaner for longer. This is very important now that the current pandemic has made cleaning more important than ever.Â
Read on to learn more about cleaning as a family from your most trusted cleaning service in Loveland.Â
Why is it important to have a clean house?
Maintaining a clean home is critically important as it brings your whole family many benefits, and will help keep everyone healthier as we move into the fall and winter seasons. If you have had trouble in the past motivating your young child to clean try these tips to make cleaning more fun for them. Additionally, check out some of our tips on back to school cleaning for more help with getting the whole family cleaning.Â
How can I get my family to help me with house cleaning?
Have a Conversation
Before getting into how or what areas of a home people should clean, you should have a conversation with your family letting them know why their help is so important to you, and what the benefits of a clean home will be to the whole family.Â
Keep this conversation light and open – the last thing you want to do is scold your family for not helping with house cleaning as much as they should.Â
Make a List
To help organize and prioritize what needs to be done, utilize lists to help streamline cleaning processes for the family. A rotating room cleaning schedule is highly effective in cutting cleaning down to just a few minutes per day, while maintaining the consistency needed to keep a home clean.Â
Assign different tasks to different family members so everybody is contributing to the household cleaning.Â
Give Small Children Easy Cleaning Tasks
To really be effective in getting the help of your family, the cleaning assigned to everyone needs to be appropriate. Small kids may not be very effective in kitchen cleaning, but they can do really well with simpler tasks like dusting and cleaning windows. Giving children some tasks to take ownership of will increase their likelihood of performing them and give them a sense of accomplishment.Â
How long will it take to develop a routine?
If you have been the sole cleaner in your home, getting the whole family to clean will not happen overnight. It may be a slow process, even taking multiple weeks, but that does not mean you should give up!
Start Slow
If you get a lot of resistance from your family when you try to delegate out household cleaning chores, slow down a bit. Try to assign one task at a time so it is not too overwhelming for your family. Too much all at once is usually a recipe for disaster.Â
Help Out and Demonstrate
Once you have made some cleaning assignments, help everyone out for the first few days. This can help on many levels – it will show them how the task should be done (which will help with their quality and efficiency) and it gives you time to really explain to them why the chore is important to you and to your whole family.Â
Accept Imperfection
Perhaps the most surefire way to lose your family’s help is to expect absolute perfection. Be appreciative and think about the bigger picture if things are not perfect. Consistent cleaning is much more important than perfection – it is not worth getting upset over a missed spot on the stove or some crumbs left on the floor, which can threaten to drive people away from helping.Â
Always focus on the big picture – appreciate that everybody is helping out with household cleaning, which gives you more time and energy for other pursuits, and the home will overall stay in better shape when multiple hands are pitching in to help.Â
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Mulberry Maids’ main goal is customer satisfaction. We work with hand-picked, detail oriented cleaners, and use effective and safe green products to keep your home immaculate and germ free. Be it a move out or recurring cleaning, we will make sure your home is always healthy, clean, and fresh.Â
Give us a try today, and take a relaxing afternoon at the Sweet Heart Winery while we clean your home to perfection. We are always here to help answer any questions you have. Call or book online in under 60 seconds!Â
Take care and see you soon!