I have a husband and 2 kids - I need housework tips - any suggestions?

Any tips on how to maintain a tidy home with a toddler, baby and husband that is out all day. Any adviceI have a husband and 2 kids - I need housework tips - any suggestions?
don't worry about it, you can only do one thing at a time. The house work will still be there when you are ready to do it. Make the most of your tots, you will have loads of time to do the house work when they go to school, houses are for living in, not cleaning all the time.I have a husband and 2 kids - I need housework tips - any suggestions?
i know this might sound a bit simplistic but have a specific place for everything - it makes tidying up a lot quicker . Also as long as the dishes and the bathroom are clean everything else can wait.
ask the toddler to help you tidy up toys etc ,make it a game or you could bribe them with a reward of some-sort, it works give it a try ( do the same with hubby but reward him with other things ;O) lol
have the children play in one room with their toys instead of having toys everywhere and also when they take naps use the time to clean the house (chores). get up early morning or stay up when they are asleep and take the time to clean the house


also make cleaning a game for your toddler so he can learn how to clean up after himself make it fun so he can help you
Keep a box of cheep baby wipes in the bathroom cupboard and every day take one out and wipe down the bathroom sink and the toilet seat and rim.


Also I found rotating the toys for the toddler helps. let them


have 3 toys a week to play with and then put them away and


get another three out. This way they wont be able to make a


big mess with toys and you will find they actually play with them better than when they have a room full of toys to throw around and make a mess.
put everything where it is used. for example store garbage bags in the garbage bin under the bag that's currently being used. prepare food for an entire week and freeze so u can just microwave. get 3 bins that the kids will learn to sort clothes in themselves. ';whites/blacks/colors';. that way, doing laundry will take less time b/c stuff will b sorted AND ur kids will learn their colors too. lol buy the BIG laundry detergent that has a nozzle. avoids a mess. ... um, make all ur credit card bills due on the same date. For example, mine are all due on the 5th of hte month. so i know that on the 24th or so of the prev month, i have to do bills. Also, do ur bills online!!! will save u time and money! Get an electronic pda/phone/camera mix. that way, u can check ur emails on the run. and last but not least, make a specific spot for everything and USE that spot. knowing where things are will always save u time ! . hope this helps. take care
Its not easy, and sometimes you need to relax and remember that children are just messy uncivilized humans. Of course if you and your husband insist on tidy at all times basic organization skills help alot.


Identify the areas you handle well. Like you keep the kitchen tidy, or you keep the bathroom tidy. Or you r bedroom is tidy. Then feel good about that!!


Then make a list of the areas you want to prioritize. Maybe its your family room. Your toddler may like to play out there cause he/she is near you. Make sure you have a place to put the toddlers toys, when its time to put them away. Identify what is cluttering up the family room, like mail, and make sure when you work to clean up the room you have a place to put the clutter and only touch each item once. With mail, its touch it and throw it away or put it in a mail place for bills or personal replies. Each room has its challenges, but a place to put everything and everything in its place usually qualifies as tidy. To accomplish this each day, identify a time to do each room/ each day. Identify a place for everything and when the time during the day comes to do the room, you know what goes where. Have waste baskets with bags in every room and use them. Hopefully you may have a room in the house you may need to do only once a week or so. With a toddler sometimes thats impossible to find but , if you have one, yeah!! If its an issue with your husband wanting to come home to a tidy house, discuss with him that sometimes that just isn't going to happen. Together you could identify particular days that are especially important to him (and not everyday counts) for the house to be tidy and you could concentrate on those days to pick up and dust and vacuum but everyday seems to me would qualify as child neglect. Toddlers and babies have their own schedules and that probably doesn't follow the parent's schedule. Plus making food, playing with the children, taking care of an infant's and toddlers needs should be a Mom's priority. A toddler can help dust and pick up, and including him/her in the activity can be fun for both of you. But be prepared, toddlers never do pick up the way you would like, nor do they have skills in cleaning and dusting. Plus household cleaners are not good for skin contact on toddlers. I have used ivory soap as a cleaner in my kitchen so my youngsters could make lots of soap bubbles and help clean the floor and breakfast table. After the activity, I had to rinse everything because the soap leaves a film, but any other type of cleaner is harmful. Tidy is OK but child activites are important too. 1. Prioritize 2. Set a schedule each day for pick up 3. Have a place for everything 4. Touch everything once 5. Put everything in its place 6. Negotiate with you husband, emphasizing that tidy is important, but the children should come first. (if you can't negotiate, leave him for a whole day with the children, starting before breakfast and ending with them in bed, he may not act more willing to accept some clutter, but deep down he'll understand) 7. Sorry I forgot, Start Early and Work late. Too reach the tidy goal, you may not get a lot of sleep. I used to do the kitchen around 9:00 to 10:00 PM.


Your children are only young once, your house can be tidy for forever. (If you can, you could hire a household organizer or teen ager to come in and help you tidy. I wouldn't hire anyone to watch the kids while I tidied the house, but the other way around works for me.) Enjoy !!
box up and store all those items scattered around, that you dont really need, knick knacks, the less you have out, the less you have to clean. do we really need 4 sets of dishes? its work moving all this stuff to clean. you will never have everything perfectly clean. an elderly lady once told me, my house was clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy. I think that is a nice goal to shoot for.
I am a working mum of five kids. I would peel /pound or skinned whatever I need for making breakfast the night before. As for lunch sometime I precook them while preparing breakfast ,then my hubby who work nearby will reheat them. The family enjoyed homecooked dinner. I trained the kids to help me in the house, reminding them that they have no helper and they must help their parents look after them too.
you live in your house. so don't worry about it. with kids you don't have a show house. just wait till they are teenagers it actually does get worse. 2 teens, husband at work and i also work. we make sure clothes are clean and dishes are cleaned and all put up and the rest gets done when we get to it.
Hello, I would say your worrying to much. With small children at home it麓s very hard to keep thing麓s in order. When baby and toddler go for a nap, you should have one yourself, Having a rest on your bed charges your energy levels ,even if it麓s 1/2 hr, makes a big difference. A few thing麓s that might help., Try putting your washing machine on at night , just before you go to bed. Like this your clothes will be ready to hang first thing in the morning, or to be popped into the dryer. Also a good thing at night , is to clean the bathroom , before you go to bed, seems a lot to do , but with the little rest you have in the afternoon, you will find that little bit of energy.
do a bit at a time, dont stress yourself, i am the same (2 kids and hubby) sometimes its nice to have a bit of mess instead of trying to be perfect.





you could keep the front tidy by not allowing mess and you let the children play (mess) their rooms.


watching daytime tv is a naughty distraction to which i love with coffee and muffins or oat biscuits (yummmmm)





at least that way your husband can still come home to a cleanish home with dinner on the table.





i hope this helps
Yes the best tip I can give you. Stop running around like a blue *** fly, calm down, enjoy your baby and your toddler, they grow up way too fast-plenty of time for a clean house when they are at school.
you know what when you find out let me know have a hubby whos out all day working 4 kids and 1 on the way lolololol
I have a husband and four kids (one a toddler) and I keep the place tidy by cleaning and tidying through the day. There are no shortcuts - I dont watch daytime tv - I just get on with the job of being a housewife. (I do however have lazy days where I say sod it and the place is a mess but I tell the truth to hubby, I dont try to cover it and make it look like Ive been busy!)
I am married and have 2 kids as well. My kids are 15 months apart so it was pretty hard when my youngest daughter was born. For the first six months of her life I stayed at home while my husband worked crazy hours. What I did was get myself into a routine and stuck to it. For example, I would clean the bathrooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, mop the floors on Mondays and Wednesdays, etc, etc. When I broke it up like that it helped save me a lot of stress! Also, you should start getting your toddler to help you. The earlier you start the better. Start out with having him/her put up their toys when they are done playing or put their dishes in the sink when they are done eating.





Now I am a working wife and mother of a 5 and 6 year old and it is a lot harder. I enlist the help of my kids to help me around the house and they love it! I am pretty much a neat freak, though, and it stresses my out when the house is not in order. I pretty much do a quick walk through of my house about 3 times a night after I get home and straighten things up, which turns out to be pretty good excercise! I do the major stuff (like the bathrooms and dusting and mopping) on the weekends.
I am in the same boat... I clean and 10 min later it looks like I never done anything.. I send my son to his room if he messes anything up and reclean.... it is a on going thing....





PICK up the toys and put them in a box....tell ur toddler to put them in the box when done... if that dont happen take something (toy) and put in a trash bag and let them know u mean bussiness...DONT TROW it away but make them thing u are.... AS goes for hubby.... I throw away his shoes if he leaves them in the kitchen and give them back to him after dinnner the next night it took about a week and now he dont leave them around.... BEST OF LUCK
you would have to be crazy to think you can have a tidy


home with a toddler and baby forget it just enjoy your kids
Find a routine that works for you is the best advice. I have 3 kids and a disabled wife who is 8 month pregnant. The trick is clean as you go.
Bathroom - Shake out the rugs and clean the mirror. It works miracles.





Living room - See if your toddler will help you pick up his/her toys and books. If the toys and books are picked up it will look a lot better.





Kitchen - Dishes. All kitchens look a million times cleaner with the dishes done.





That's really all the advice I have. I hope I helped!
you have to use really hot water for your leanins and get the pest spray i work for pest control and we are doing bed bugs now make sure to clean the whole bed and dont sleep ther until the spray has dried