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For most kids, bedroom cleaning is one of the top dreaded of all household chores. It falls within the ranks of scooping the poop or spending an entire Saturday afternoon cleaning the garage. Many moms get such opposition to this dreaded chore, often they just end up cleaning their children’s room themselves. But have you ever stop to wonder why this job is so dreaded by most children?

Bits, Parts and Pieces
A child’s bedroom seems to be the gathering place for discarded wrappers, torn paper, broken toy parts and even the occasional rotten banana peel. All these bits, parts and pieces can make a child feel so overwhelmed they often don’t even know where to begin! The solution? Give them a system.

Let’s face it, homeschooling is messy! It makes for a messy house, messy kids, and an overall messier life. Don’t we all, as homeschool moms, desire for the picture perfect day like in a Norman Rockwell painting– a cozy house filled with fresh faced, bare-footed children, diligently working away at their schoolwork while the aroma of a pumpkin candle and the sound of Mozart fills the air. While most of us would love for homeschool to look like that everyday, the truth is, those days just don’t happen that often.

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Many elderly retired people choose to move to a retirement community for various reasons. A large home may have been great when they were raising children and pets. Now that the children have left home to start their own families, there is far too much space to take care of. The garden may also be too big to maintain. It is probably difficult to secure a home properly if the retiree plans to travel extensively.

Should all toys, or at least the majority of toys, educational? Very often as we browse the endless aisles of toys looking for something suitable we are presented with a myriad of educational benefits which, if the text is to be believed, will allow our child to excel, reach their potential and become a genius in a matter of moments. This almost seems to pose the question - how did children manage to learn anything at all before the invention of batteries? Come to that, how did we manage to learn anything ourselves?