10 Songs for Cleaning Up with Children

One thing my mom taught me at a young age was how to clean up after myself. I remember once, my mom told my me and my sister (who I shared a room with), that we needed to clean our room. We proceeded to stuff everything into the closet. We told my mom that we were done, and she came in to check. Of course, she went to the closet and opened the door and discovered what we had done. So we were told once again that we needed to clean our room.

We thought we were tricky, and took everything out of the closet, only to stuff it under the bed. Again, we told our mom that we were finished. She came in, checked the closet, and then went and looked under the bed. And then she said something that has stuck with me from that moment.

She told us that if we would have just put everything away the first time, we would already be done. Instead, it was like we were starting from the beginning because nothing had been put away.

We never had allowances or chores that were written out, but we were expected to help around the house – especially by cleaning up our own messes.
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