Organizing A Child’s Wardrobe Closet

July 31, 2009 by Guest Writer
Filed under: Parenting Tips

Usually children have a really tough time keeping their space neat, as opposed to their parents. Often this is a result of their place for storage not typically being a piece-of-cake for kids to use and, also, kids need to know how to get organized. Children need to have their own areas that are easy to use and are also easy to declutter.

Wardrobe storage is not designed as a ready-to-use organized storage area, especially for a child. For instance, we can take a look at the closet in a kid's room. In the kid's clothes storage area, the bar that the clothes hang from is typically too high to reach, and the shelves are also too high. There is also the issue of the floor having too much space, which allows items to be just thrown. As a result of this, a kid's closet is typically in need of organization.

The first issue that needs to be alleviated, before children understanding how to get organized, is to have the space prepared for the child to be able to properly store their belongings. Frequently, it is the design of the closet that ends up handicapping a kid from being able to organize it. Kids aren't going to be able to correctly put things away if their storage area is primarily only the lower section of the storage closet, because this space is a magnet for piles of clutter. To enable your kid to clean up his closet, you have to first organize it with the child in mine.

The following are ways to help in making a kid's closet easier for them to use:

* Usually, the closet rod is too high for your child. If the hanging bar is far up, the child will not be able to put up the outfits. In this case, the kid will have no choice but to place them on the floor or on the bed for the mom to put away. This is easy to fix by placing an extra hanging bar within your child's reach. If you don't want to rebuild the closet, so you can lower a rod, stores have ones that can hang on the existing hanging rod. When this is done, you are giving a chance for your child to do the organizing by themselves.
* Using a closet system is a good plan. You can obtain closet systems online, at a home improvement big box stores, or a closet store showroom. Keep in mind, the more adjustable the design, the more improved, because the system can be redone as your child gets taller.
* Purchase containers that can be placed on the ground of the closet, so the child can categorize her items. Transparent plastic boxes are suggested, so that the child is able to easily look at its contents. Require the child to snap a picture of everything in each box, and attach the photograph to the front of the box, so that the child will see right away what the stuff in the box are.
* Have the kid purge the items they no longer use. Holidays are ideal times to do this as it can be instructed that the child will only get one new present for every old thing they throw away.

Instruct your kid in the decluttering process. This allows the child to take ownership of the process and feel responsible for keeping their area orderly.

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