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Great tips to organize the kids rooms

It's the battle weep of millions of parents: "cleanse your room!" Will it ring out in your own home today?

Seasonal events like birthdays, the holiday season or an innovative new school year bring fresh inspiration to the drive to get kids organized--and nowhere is the battleground more intense than in the kid's bedrooms.

How do you help your child organize and clean up life in the bed room?

Try these eight easy organization methods to relaxed clutter and bring order to kids' rooms.

Take a child's eye view

Get down to your child's eye level to help him or her get arranged. Look at your child's space, storage, furniture and possessions from his or her vantage point. The view may surprise you!

Adult furniture and organizing systems don't translate well to kiddies's requirements. Sticky dresser compartments are hard for small hands to manage. Folding cabinet doors pinch fingers and jump their rails when pushed from the bottom. Closet hanging rods are away from reach, while adult hangers do not fit smaller garments. Traditional doll cardboard boxes residence a tangled jumble of mixed and scattered toy parts.

To organize a child's room, solutions must fit the child. For younger children, remove closet doors entirely. Lower clothing rods and invest in child-sized hangers. Use floor-level open bins to hold toys, open plastic baskets to store socks and underwear.

Devise a simple daily checklist for maintenance. To organize a child's area, tailor the work to the little one.

Bring the child into the process

Resist the urge to wade into the mess alone, garbage bags traveling. Gritted teeth and threats of "You will keep this area clean!" never touch the foot of the problem: teaching kids company skills and maintenance methods.

Instead, go through the organization process as a learning task, and put the focus on the kid. Professional organizer Julie Morgenstern, writer of Organizing from the Inside Out, recommends that you see your role as compared to business consultant to your child.

As his or her guide, review what's working, what's not, just what's important to the kid, what's causing the problems, and exactly why the child wants to get organized.

Partnered with your child, you stand a better chance of devising a company scheme and system that is sensible to them. If they're involved in the effort, children are better able to understand the business logic and maintain an organized space.

Sort, store and simplify

It's a conundrum! Children's rooms are tiny, often provided, and generally lack built-in storage space. Yet these rooms are host to out-of-season and outgrown clothing, excess toys, and even household overflow from other rooms. Kids can not stay organized when the closet is crammed, the drawers are packed, and playthings cover each square inches of carpet.