How to Encourage Your Young Children to Help with Laundry

When you have children the amount of laundry that you do can really pile up. Luckily though you can encourage your young children to help out with the laundry. This will help them learn responsibility and they are probably eager to help anyway, as it can be fun to do grown up things. If you have a laundry room in a basement this can be especially good, because you will be able to keep an eye on your young children while you are doing laundry. Here are some of the ways that you can encourage your young child, or children, to help out with laundry.

Depending on the system that you use will determine if you need to have your child help you gather up dirty laundry. If everything always goes into the hamper the second that it is dirty than you won't have to gather any dirty clothes up. However if you do usually pick up a few things in the bedrooms that didn't make it to the hamper this can be the perfect job for your litter helper. If you would like to instill the practice that when ever a piece of clothing is dirty is goes in the hamper you can have your child put their dirty clothes in the family hamper or in their own.

When it comes to washing and drying your laundry there are several things that your child can help with. They can help you add the clothes to the washer for one thing and for another they can be the one who gets to pour in the soap. If you have more than one child who would like to do this you can alternate between washes who gets to pour in the soap or you can measure half of what you need and let two children pore in soap for every wash, and divide it more if you have more than two children eager to be the one to pour in the soap. Measuring the right amount of soap is probably a task that you want to take care of. As for drying the laundry your young child can clean out the lint trap and help put the washed clothes into the dryer.

Folding clothes and helping putting them away is another thing that your young child can do. You can give them things like dish towels for your child to fold while you focus on the harder things and when everything is folded your child can help put folded pieces into drawers. This can be something that you do every time that you do laundry or you can only have your children help some of the time. Either way laundry will be easier and more fun for the both the parent and the children.