Have you seen the organization in a kindergarten classroom? It’s full of cubbies and bins. Any classroom from preschool through high school is designed to function well. The environment is organized in a way that there is a place for everything to be put away. There’s a place for books and toys. There are stations designated for different activities. Classrooms are also set up to be age-appropriate. You won’t find baby toys in the middle school classroom! The classroom environment is set up so that when the kids enter, they have the age-appropriate things they need and everything is where it is supposed to be. Your home can be set up this way too!
If you are teaching the skill of organizing to someone else, you first need a picture of what done looks like. Have an orientation when you organize a space in your home. This shows your family where things are located, the rules of that area, and what it should look like when it is cleaned up after using that space.
Next, you need a lesson plan. You have to know the right amount of work to give to your students so that they neither become bored nor overwhelmed when learning how to organize.
Finally, the person you’re teaching needs to have a spark ignited to want to learn the skill of organization. You cannot create this spark in someone else, but once they have it, it’s game on!
In this episode, I help you think about what your space should look like to make it function like a classroom. I also walk you through how to teach the skill of organization to someone else.
What will your first step be in making your home function like a classroom?
The Productive Home Solution™ gives you all of the information and tools that you need to organize your home so that it is age-appropriate and functions well for your current life stage. It’s also set up in bite-sized chunks so you can do as little or as much as you want to do at a time. Join The Productive Home Solution™ here.
