Comments on: House Cleaning Strategies for the Homeschool Family

By: construction cleanup springfield mo

construction cleanup springfield mo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:34:01 +0000

Danielle, I clean only 1 hour a day and divide it into zones. Bathroom,kitchen,rooms are done each day! This works for me and my family!

Mika

By: Renee Gotcher

Renee Gotcher — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:26:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing some of your top tips and resources, Danielle! My sister, two sisters in law, and I just wrote our own take on how to manage household chores while homeschooling for our blog, NextGen Homeschool. We’re all formerly homeschooled moms who now homeschool our own kids! Here’s our answer to this question from four different perspectives:
http://nextgenhomeschool.com/2012/10/08/ask-a-nextgen-homeschooler-housekeeping-while-homeschooling/

My big take-away on this topic is that the ages of your children makes a difference in what strategies will work for you. For instance, I have two “tween” girls and one five year old girl, so I have been somewhat successful at giving a few daily & weekly chores to my older two. However, my sis who has a 6-year-old and 4-year-old is pretty much on her own with all the chores other than helping the kids pick up their room or put their clothes away, so she has to take a totally different approach.

And I always love to hear the ideas of others! One reader to our blog gave me a great idea to use Friday afternoons for the “deep clean” chores that are often saved for Saturdays. That way she & the family have more time with Dad on the weekend. I love that, because right now we spend most of our Saturday morning/early afternoon doing chores.

Thanks again for your take on this topic!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:49 +0000

In reply to Heather. How old are your littles? My experience has been that it will get easier as they get older. Both because you will have another set of more capable hands and because you will find your stride, and get more comfortable with the list you need to accomplish each day. Just yesterday I asked my 10 year old to guide our 5 year old through his handwriting so I could get dinner going in the crockpot, it was so nice. The first year can be tough! If all that happens is those two things each day you are doing a GREAT job!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:14:40 +0000

In reply to Kimberly K. Not crazy at all! :-) It's tough to keep up!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:32:51 +0000

I was recently discussing this with my husband! This is our first year homeschooling, and I keep telling my husband he can pick two things, either I can school the kids and make dinner, or I can school the kids and clean the house, or I can school the kids and run the errands. I only have two littles, so I am not sure if it will get easier or harder as they get older, or if we add other littles to the mix!

By: Kimberly K

Kimberly K — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:30:02 +0000

THANK YOU! I recently told someone I think I could only be good at one thing at a time (i.e. keeping my house clean, homeschooling, keeping up with work from home stuff) and she looked at me like she had no idea what I was saying. Seriously! Its so hard to keep up with it all even with minimal expectations (my kitchen floor is always sticky). Thanks for your post, it makes me feel like I’m not crazy!