It's Montessori cleaning day at the pierogi household

[pierogigirl]

A few weeks ago there was a thread about chores for kids.  IIRC, someone posted a Montessori chore chart and washing baseboards was on it.  It's effing hot here today so I gave the kids damp washcloths and let them go to town.  They are 6 and 3.5 years old.  It went about as well as you'd think.

Parts of my house are cleaner and parts are *not*.  DS2 kept going into the bathroom, rewetting his cloth and cleaning with it dripping wet.  I sunscreened them and sent them into the backyard for a few minutes so I can clean up.

[namasteak]

DS likes to wipe after I spray something down. Maybe that would work?

[meij]

I used to teach at Montessori preschool and I always encouraged sink cleaning, because of the drain lol. All the extra "cleaning" just washed down with no mopping up from me necessary. Everything else was thanks for making everything dripping wet and needing me to mop.

[Deleted]

Sometimes I read those chore charts and am like "SAAAAYYYYYYY WHATTTT?"

And I'm a total "get to work" queen.

I am not letting my kids anywhere near my baseboards. I don't wash them often at all. So they'd do one section, be done and I'd have one shiny spot in the middle of the LR (the only place they could reach) and the rest sticking out all the more due to obvious two years worth of dust build up.

And I'm not giving my a kid chore that's more work for me. Esp. not one that involves water all over my floors. Go pick up your toys. Get your clothes in the hamper. Pull garden weeds. Water my OUTSIDE plants. I do let DD take the duster around. She also does sinks and scrubs the tub while she's in it. Just don't make me more work and be useful why you're at it.