Cleaning Zorah's Room

After we got back from the party and had dinner, I decided it was finally time to clean Zorah's room. This is something I have been wanting to do for the past month, but haven't made time to accomplish. I haven't been making her tidy, as I think I have mentioned before, because it's her space. Since it was starting to bother me, I asked her if she would mind if I cleaned it up. She didn't have a problem, so I got to work cleaning and organizing. As I worked, Zorah got into it too. She cleaned up her desk and put things away.

Really, though, she was totally excited about sweeping. She kept asking when we would get to that part of the cleaning. I explained that to sweep, we first had to put away everything that was on the floor. She helped put it all away so she could get to the broom.

Look how happy as she makes up that pile of dirt!

I think that most of the time it's not that kids don't want to clean their rooms, but perhaps that they don't know how to begin. Looking at a huge scattering of playtime detritus must be rather overwhelming. I have a feeling that if I help her clean up enough times, or even just demonstrate, she will be able to do it more naturally. So many things that we think are obvious, having done them so many times in our own lives, are not. Not to a child. Anyway, we were both quite pleased with the results.