How to Keep a House Clean When Homeschooling a Large Family
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
- In a large family, everything is MORE! More food to make, more clean up, more stuff. If there is no system or plan for keeping the house in order, it will be chaos! Homeschooling adds one more element to the mix. Have you ever wondered how to keep a house clean when homeschooling a large family? Is it possible? I say, yes, it is! Here’s how we make it work in our home.
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We share socks in a basket at the door to put on before shoes when we go out. Tip: if you just buy socks that are all the same, they always match.
It is possible! I have 15 kids, we homeschool and the house stays in pretty good order. And I have a very low stress lifestyle, with lots of fun!
I implement many of these strategies for my family of 4, soon to be 5. I love a picked up house before quiet time around
I love your videos. They are encouraging and helpful! We have 6 kids ranging from 1 year to 13 years old and have homeschooled since the beginning as well. A lot of your tips are things that we have implemented over the years to keep things running smoothly here, too. Our laundry system is similar with on dirty laundry basket and one clean. The 'dirty' basket is dark colored and the clean is white. I also have a cinch laundry bag for 'special care items'. We live in a cold climate and the kids do a lot of skiing and other winter sports, so there is many wool items that can easily shrink. They are responsible for putting all of their 'wool' , white, etc into the cinch bag for it to be noticed as special launder. I wash that bag separately and when it is put into the wash I place at sticky note on the lid of the washer with a message about washing, so that whoever switches the wash will hang dry or low heat. Even my younger kids that switch the watch recognize the sticky note as a signal that they need help with the next step. We also have a sock set up that works well for us. The white laundry basket is our unmatched sock catcher. All of the matched kids socks go into a cute basket kept at the door. This helped with kids not being able to find socks when we were leaving the house for activities. When the sock basket gets low, it is time to match the socks and get them home. I wash my husband and I clothes separately, so our socks stay in that load.
Loved this!! The first chore I give my kids is “put it in the garbage” right after they learn to walk. After that it’s learning to pile their laundry in a common area so I don’t have to hunt for it and it’s not strewn around, a midday “pickup” where all their toys go back into buckets. I try to make it as easy for them as I can to just focus on instilling the culture of participating in caring for the home from the start. You can always throw in things that need skill later.
Thank you! That was very helpful.
We are about to welcome baby #6 and I have 5 other under 10. Just having kids bedrooms clean for us every evening before people climb into bed is really helping. Then all the dirty laundry and clean laundry are where they should go so I can keep up on it and the kids don’t get overwhelmed by a huge mess if I say please go tidy your room. I’ve also paired waaaayyy down on the number of toys we have in circulation for the summer months. Prioritizing outside play over stuff has helped cut down on tidying time. Now just to figure out how to keep the floors looking mopped without needing to do it every day 🤪
I have 3 kids and it feels like a lot😅. I relate to so much of what you said as someone with a medium family. I struggle to find a balance between school and home. I tend to push home aside until after school, at which point we complete chores as a family.
Thank you ,such a great video!!
Thank you 😊
We started our daughter at age 9 doing her laundry. We also do 1 load laundry and every other day but we are a family of 3 so not a big family. Socks we buy 1 style and 1 color so each family member has 1 type and 1 color of sock, bras, and undies, same brand, color, style, so it is super simple to know who's item is who's, this being said we do not have 10 kids.
I’m so inspired by you thank you for the tips ❤
I am inspired by your big family systems.. thank you for sharing. Your kitchen is beautiful!! I love the windows.
I love it! Thank you so much!!!!! Love from Ania from Poland
Thank you so much for this advice! I am watching this video to try to find some tips to change things up in the new year. We are a family of 11 who also homeschool and it seems like the cleaning is a neverending job. But I love how you say that the house takes the priority. That's so true as we've been moving to a more minimalist schooling. I like that you've scheduled it different everyday. We have had the kids doing the same jobs over the last few months and now they hate it. And our oldest daughter has been stuck with the kitchen. I like that you changed it up every day. I like the idea of setting the kitchen up separately from the rest of the house!
Great video!
Loved this video but how would you modify it for a large family that doesn’t home school? So during the day my kids are all at school so it’s just me and the littles at home.
I could not click this video fast enough! I am drowning in house chores and need advice from another mama who has tips!
Was trying to have homeschool but with9 month old twin ba bys all day it feels like im drowning
I'm already doing some of these. Getting to the point where I have to choose between housework and homeschooling, though. I am totally paying kids to deep clean things.