Organizing you child's bedroom?

Question

My daughter's room is a wreck! If you have any tips on organizing it, or you know of any website that can give me more ideas, please tell me! (It would help if you would give me some ideas, too.) For one thing, her closet is a wreck, and she has big piles of clutter under her bed and in the corners of her room. I need help organizing. She tells me she would like her room a lot better if it was cleaner, but she never cleans it. She doesn't like it when I throw her things away, so I'm going to fill up boxes with things that I want to give or throw away. Then she can go through them and the things she does want I will put away for her. I've tried cleaning her room before, but it somehow always gets messy again. Any tips on way to get my child to keep her room clean? She also has a lot of stuffed animals. Has anyone heard of a stuffed animal organizer? If you have read all of this I do greatly appreciate it. So again, if you have any ideas or tips, please tell me them.

My daughter id twelve by the way!

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Answer 1

A couple things:

- pick out some sort of toybox (plastic tub, fancy wooden box, anything will work) and only allow her to have as many toys in her room as will fit in the box; weed out any old or barely played with toys and donate them to the goodwill or throw them away; if there are toys you can't bear to part with, box them up and store them in the basement (if a year goes by and you still haven't done anything with them, seriously consider donating or throwing them away)

- follow the same philosophy for clothes - My step daughters love to play dress up with their own clothes and used to wear 4-5 different outfits per day, then they would toss the clothes on the floor until they wanted to wear them again; What I found worked was only allowing them access to that season's clothes, everything else box up or put in plastic tubs that they don't have access to; they less clothes they had, the less fun dressing up was (because it was the clothes they wore everyday)

- organization - buy a cute clothes hamper that goes with her room decor; buy hooks so that she can hang up jackets, bookbags, hats, etc; buy a closet organizer (unit that has two levels of racks to hang clothes and shelves for shoes or folded clothes) so that clothes can be hung up and put away (if she's too short to reach the top rack buy a small step stool or put the clothes up there she won't be wearing that season)

- other: avoid buying toys with lots of little small pieces ( legos, Happy Meal toys, bead sets, art sets with lots of markers/crayons)

Lastly, mean what you say and say what you mean. If you say you are going to throw away the toys she won't pick up, do it. It sucks because you spent your hard earned money on them or they could even have been gifts. But if your daughter doesn't appreciate what she has, she needs to be taught to. Keep it simple. If she doesn't have a lot of toys or clothes to trash the room with, it will be easier FOR HER to clean up. Make sure that you are not the one cleaning. If you have to get involved it is to remove toys/clothes, not clean.



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Answer 2

You could try www.flylady.net she has a lot of good ideas on how to organize and make it part of your life.

I don't know how old your daughter is, but she probably would like to spend some time with you. If it were me, here's what I would do....
I would carve out a couple of hours to spend together. I'd take her to the coffee shop, and she'd get a frozen mocha or something. We'd drink together and she'd get a little buzz which usually puts her in the cleaning mood. (I'm not for, getting your kid hooked on caffeine, but it's a treat once in a while)
We'd talk about what we should do at home and I'd suggest while we're drinking coffee that we work on her room together and can spend time together.
Then help her.
#1. She doesn't know how to organize it. She doesn't know where to start. She doesn't want to be alone in her mess. She loves spending time with you.
#2. Let her make some choices. Make a box for "maybe give away" and one for give away. Talk about how some other less fortunate girl would LOVE it. My daughter gets stuff from people and we give stuff to other people.
#3. Her room would be less messy if she had less stuff.

I will tell you that I can't follow my own advice. My daughter kind of has too much stuff, but she keeps her room pretty clean except for the occasional clothes all over the floor. MY ROOM is messy and disorganized and I wish I had someone to help me clean and organize it! Actually, my daughter wants to hang out, so I'm going to have her help me clear out my room right now, so I better git.
She's 12 by the way, I don't know how old your daughter is.

Answer 3

first of all how old is your daughter? and if she is young tell her for the 2 of you to go through her toys and get rid of the stuff she really doesn't play with. There are these clear drawers at Walmart (the cheapest) that have 3 clear drawers in them, get some of those and put the toys that go together in them and place them in her closet. There is also a big net you can get and hang it in her room from the ceiling and put all her stuffed animals in there

Answer 4

Get a net and hang it up on the ceiling and put her stuffed animals in it. Get a truck and throw all of her toys in it if she plays with them frequently. I'm just the same and my mom did this it's not always clean but a lot better!!!
Good Luck!

Answer 5

Get one of those hammock like net things that you can hang on the walls and pile her stuffed animals up on it. (I forget what its called, its just a net thing) * those things are cheep you can find them for $1.00 -5.00. most dollar stores or walmart sale them for those prices.*
Get storage containers for her other toys to put them. Only allow her to have so many toys out at a time. Tell her she haves to put them back before getting any more out. When she is done playing she haves to pick up after her self. You can help her depending on how old she is, but don't do it for her.
Get rid of toys she don't play with at all. Don't allow her to see you doing it. When she is not home or she is asleep gather some of the toys she don't play with and donate them. If she is old enough to understand tell her there are lots of kids who cant afford toys and would like something to play with. Tell her its nice to donate them to those boys and girls since she don't play with them anymore.
Likewise each time you buy her a new toy make her get rid of an old toy that she don't play with no longer. Thats a good way to get rid of some of those old toys and to keep from having way too many toys.

Answer 6

Dont let her go through what she wants your catering to her throwthem in the basement or whatever and teach her if its not put away it going in the garbage it worked for awile until my girlfriend gave in and told her what we were doing . she new if its out there it would be thrown away ?it was in the basement she was putting things away with out telling her it worked . you must hold your ground and dont give in when she starts thinking and putting things away youtell her everything is in the basement .How old is she? ino its your daughter but fight fire with fire or keep cleaning?

Answer 7

get colored hangers for her clothes put all pants 2-gether,shirts,etcput shoes in shoe boxes stacked neatly on the shelf. and for stuff animals you could get some shelves and put them around the wall and make it really girly so she wants to keep it neat and clean

Answer 8

Good luck. I have tried for 7 yrs its useless. And I am a fanatic house cleaner

Answer 9

Seriously, stop buying her so much crap and through stuff away.

Remember, you don't need her permission to toss stuff in the garbage. Don't forget who is supposed to be in control and who is the follower.

And another thing, stop cleaning her room, MAKE her do it her self. What motivation does she have to keep it clean if she knows mommy will do it for her????

Best of luck.

Answer 10

ask her what she would like to do with her room. if she does not respond just try to help her reorganize her room.