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The 22 stages of tidying up with children

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Please note – this is not a picture of my house. That’s much worse (Picture: Getty)

I don’t know about you, but my house is usually a mess.

It’s not that we don’t try and keep it reasonably shipshape.

We have rotas, systems and enough regular visitors to motivate us.

Unfortunately we also have children.

We’ve tried to teach them to be houseproud, and we’re failing miserably.

Nowhere is this more apparent than when we decide to have a Grand Tidying Up Session.

And here’s how it goes.

1. You set yourselves a time limit – the whole house tidy by five o’clock. You will push this back twice, and eventually abandon it altogether.

2. ‘We’re tidying, kids. You’re all going to… Read the full story


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