Posts Tagged ‘Children’
15 Winter Break Activities to Keep the Kids Busy and Enjoy Connection
Winter break is something I have always looked forward to – a pause in the school schedule, extracurricular activities, and everything else we have going on. After a day of calm, we tend to get a bit bored, simply because we’re used to being busy. So here is a list of things we have found…
Read MoreHow to Raise Children with Minimalist Preferences
Before we get into the how-to part of this post, I would like to issue a disclaimer: You can do all you can to influence a person (child), and in the end, there is no guarantee what their preferences will be, how organized they’ll be or if they will care even one iota about the state…
Read MoreWhy a Minimalist Playroom is Better for Kids
I don’t remember any friends with playrooms when I was a kid, but when I started having my children, I attended many a playdate at people’s houses, always hosted at the houses that had playrooms. It was like a daycare facility, except none of them ran a daycare- that’s what they had acquired, trying desperately to keep…
Read MoreTeaching Children Tidy Habits Early On
Responsibility and having to participate in housekeeping is good for children, it helps them to feel needed, important and trusted. It helps them feel like they belong. Setting Realistic Timelines Though essential for raising future adults, teaching children to do chores can be exhausting for mom (or whoever the primary caregiver is) if preparation isn’t…
Read MoreWhat Toys Should My Baby & Toddler Have?
Many parents find themselves, and their children, overwhelmed by the amount of toy in the house and seek to declutter. But when we’re looking at cutting back on toys, the focus tends to lean towards what toys should we keep, that foster imagination and give children hours of enjoyment? Disclaimer: Children’s brains are going to…
Read MoreGrieving Through The Past As You Declutter Sentimental Items
Sentimental items are difficult to declutter. There is no way around it; so many different emotions come up as we see the item, touch it, or smell it. They take us back in time and help us remember. It’s not wrong to keep items like that. The issue comes when we have a full storage space…
Read MoreClutter-Free Stocking Stuffers
Clutter-Free Gift Guide – This gift guide is a compilation of all the gift-lists published on the blog, from toddlers to grandparents and everyone in between. Clutter-free and toy-free ideas. Click here to get this 33-page PDF for $7. If you celebrate the holidays with gifts in the stocking, you know that many of the…
Read MoreNon-Toy Gift Guide For The Children In Your Life
Gift-giving holidays are just around the corner, and we all want to give to the children in our life, but the plastic toy excess is not something we want to contribute to, is it? I love giving experience gifts, which is something I reference a lot in my clutter-free gift guides. But I know some…
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