Ep 17: Closet Wrangling
Is your closet a bermuda triangle of stuff? Is it the rug under which you sweep all the things you can’t stand to look at? Are your clothes in a rat’s nest of fabric nastiness? This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk closets, with the tips you need to get control, and keep control of your closet storage!
Back to School – Creating a Homework Station!
Depending on the grade of our child, there is a good possibly they will have homework from day one! The best thing you can do is to be prepared and make sure you child has everything they need, when they need it. It will save time and keep them focused on the homework and not trying to find their pencils and erasers!
You can set up a homework station in a variety of ways. The student could have their own desk in their room or in a common area in the home. If they like to do their homework in different rooms around the house, a portable desk may be a good option. The study space should be a place where the student can think, focus, brainstorm, and if set up correctly, should make doing homework a little less painful!
These are the essentials you need no matter how the work station is set up:
- Kids will not work in a station if it’s not user friendly. You must get their opinions and thoughts about how to best set up a workspace.
- You want the station to have storage space and surface space, they need to have enough space to store all of their supplies, printer, computer, paper etc. You need to have the surface area to write, cut, paste etc.
- Good lighting- It’s hard to do your best work if you can’t see what you are doing!
- Make sure the student is comfortable- if they don’t like their desk chair, they will never sit it in.
- Let me them put personal touches around their workspace – just like if you were working in a cubicle, you want around you the things that make you happy.
- Include a bulletin board and calendar to the workspace – they need to see deadlines and bulletin boards are a great way to post reminders and other information your student may need. (Teach the child to go through the bulletin board on a weekly basis, so it doesn’t fill up with paper clutter)
- Make sure the station is stocked with everything they need! Nothing is worse than finding out you used the last staple. Keep up on the inventory of supplies!
Happy Organizing!
Back to School – The Daily Drop Off!
Pottery Barn Entryway System
Back to School Organizing Tip: Create a space in your home for your children to put their stuff! The daily drop off occurs the same time, the same place, everyday!
Your children are going to need a place for their coats, hats, mittens, backpacks, lunch pails, shoes, and anything else that may come home with them! If you designate the same place every time, it will eliminate the running around in the mornings trying to find the missing shoe!
This is an easy organizing system to put into place in your home as long as you teach your children what is expected from them. You want the kids to put their jackets on hooks, make sure the hooks are at their height, make placing shoes in a bin or a rack easy and painless. Have a basket or bin accessible for the mittens and hats.
Make the drop off place as convenient and easy as possible to ensure success!
Practice! Before school actually starts, do a run through with your kids, and if there is anything that needs to change, now is the time to do it!
Happy Organizing!
Back To Campus- The Organized.com Way!
Back to School!
Ready or not, school is just around the corner! For some of you around the country, it may have already begun! If you have any lessons learned this season, please share your wealth of information! We are always looking for tips to make our lives easier!
I will be the first to admit I am not ready to let go of summer. However, I do know it’s better to be prepared and plan for this upcoming season change. If you are not organized during this time, it can easily turn into chaos with a lot of frustration and stress!
So what can we do to make this time less stressful? Organized.com is one way for sure! The Back to Campus webpage is a great resource for great products and information all of us can learn from…
Here are just a few of my favorite articles and products:
How to Prepare for the First Day of Preschool
More Back to School Posts our on the way.. Visit our Back to School Central Link… This will take you to all the blog posts related to Back to School plus more products I recommend to get your season off right!
Happy Organizing!
Ep 16: Back to School!
The long lazy days of summer are coming to an end, and if you’ve got kids around the house, you know what’s coming: Back to School season! But don’t let the rush and buzz of back to school take you by surprise this year. You can get organized and be prepared for another year of learning with a few quick tips. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about back to school, and how you can make the transition smoothly!
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