209: 3 Expert Tips to Cultivate Your Child's Clean-Up Skills
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Mess and clutter can be at an all time high while kids are home over summer break...
...and if you're knee-deep in daily mess, feelin' burnt out and overwhelmed as the primary "stuff manager" or heck, just want your kiddo to pick up after themselves, Katy to the rescue! 
In today's newest episode I share 3 ideas that will help you cultivate your child's clean up skills, help them take an active role in the invisible load - and, get them to willingly pick up (most days 
).
xx Katy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.1 | How do I get my child to pick up their stuff? This is a million dollar question I get asked |
| 0:35.8 | all the time, especially this time of year during |
| 0:38.5 | the summertime with the kids home more. And trust me as a mom myself, I get it. So today, |
| 0:43.7 | I want to share three ideas that have helped me and my sons over the years just to cultivate |
| 0:49.5 | their cleanup skills. And it's been revolutionary for me and my family. So my sons are six and eight, |
| 0:57.3 | but all of these things I incorporated, for the most part, when they were younger, like even two, |
| 1:01.7 | three, four. So if you have young children, this will work. If you've got tweens and teens, |
| 1:07.3 | guess what? A lot of these things will still work. So deep breath, friend, we got this. |
| 1:11.6 | So before we dive in, I wanted to share some exciting news. So my most popular decluttering |
| 1:16.8 | course called The Clutter Cure, designed for moms and families who want to say peace out |
| 1:21.5 | to clutter and do stress and overwhelm and love their home again is 50% off this week in honor of Independence Day. |
| 1:29.5 | This word, independence, and freedom. |
| 1:32.2 | These words have been on my mind a lot this week for obvious reasons. |
| 1:35.5 | I live in the United States and we just celebrated Independence Day. |
| 1:38.8 | And I want you to have independence and freedom from clutter. |
| 1:43.8 | This has been hands down the most incredible thing |
| 1:47.1 | and gift and investment I have ever put into myself, into my family, into my home, into my health, |
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