How to Keep a House Clean When Homeschooling a Large Family
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- 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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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!
It's great to hear another mom of many with a similar experience!
Hello how do you handle with sibling arguing and fights? I have 12 children 2 are out of state in private school.
Here's the video I did on homeschooling when kids have bad attitudes and siblings fight if you want to check it out. ruclips.net/video/lisgaql78d8/видео.htmlsi=wyDPhxH23VZWkojr@@jessicacervantes6165
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.
Great tips! We have tried the all one color as well and that does really help!
My kids each have their own laundry basket. They each have an assigned laundry day when they get 1st priority, but it can be done any time. Only their clothes go in the machine; no mixed loads with another person. It is to be folded and put away immediately. If they don't have clothes or can not find something, my response is, "Not my problem."
My kids have learned responsibility and accountability for their own things. It has taken some of the stress off of me, and we no longer have Mt. St. Washmore.
The big kids help the little kids if I am busy. I have a custom cycle button on my machine, so it's easy to teach the younger kids. My 4 year old began learning how to load & start the machine last month. The 2 yo helps carry his folded clothes to the drawer to put away.
We've had this system for 6 years now. Just had my 8th child last week.
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 1:30. So we do that before the toddler naps. It gives me several hours to enjoy some tidiness before our evening begins. 😊
That's a great idea! It would just bump it up a bit earlier to enjoy it during the quiet hours. I like that!
I could not click this video fast enough! I am drowning in house chores and need advice from another mama who has tips!
I am so glad this helped you! Keep on keeping on! You are doing important work!
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! It's not easy balancing home and school for sure, but having a plan is a start. I hope you find some good rhythms that work for you and the family!
Hey friend, I once heard a mom of 10 say to a mom with just a few kids (and the same sentiment as yours) “oh honey, you just don’t have enough kids” 😂 there is some truth to that- with many hands comes lots of work, but also lots of helpers. That middle stage is hard.
We have 5 kids over here and I recently started implementing 30 minute chore time in the morning, 15 minutes after breakfast, 15 minutes after lunch, and another 30 minute after dinner. Sometimes the house needs a little bit more, but if we are caught up on dishes and laundry, things like that, those times are perfect for maintaining everything and keeping the chaos at bay. It also has helped me to not feel like I am cleaning all day. Now to get the cooking mastered…
I had 3 at one point and it felt like a lot at times too. Especially if all three are pretty little! That’s what helps I think is that they get older. We realized when our 2nd oldest was 10 that she was capable and really liked cleaning. We did chores for sure, but for the first time she cleaned a whole bathroom to the standard I would clean it, without my asking! Before that I might say, go clean the bathroom sink, the mirror, the toilet etc. but she just went in there and did it all, including tub and floor! She would use it though to get out of school work 😂 I had twins that were about 2 at that point, plus a 4,6, and 12 year old. All helpful! But not the same.
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.
Thanks for sharing this! I especially like your plan for socks. Having a matched sock basket by the door would be super helpful for our littles who can never keep track of their socks. Great ideas!
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 🤪
Sounds like you have a good system going there! Good point about outside play! The more they are outside, the easier they are to entertain and the less the house gets messed up. Congrats on #6! What a gift! I hope you pregnancy and delivery go well.
Thank you! That was very helpful.
You're welcome!
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.
That's great! Yes, it's so worth it to pay kids to do odd jobs!
I love it! Thank you so much!!!!! Love from Ania from Poland
You're so welcome!
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!
You're welcome! I'm so glad this inspired you with some new ideas to try! I hope you can find a good system that works for your family in the new year!
I am inspired by your big family systems.. thank you for sharing. Your kitchen is beautiful!! I love the windows.
Thank you so much! I do too...they let in all the light!
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.
Great ideas, especially with the socks! They are the clincher for me! Thanks for sharing!
Great video!
I’m a homeschooling mom with 6 boys ages 11 down to 1.
We have everyone pitch in, but I definitely need to sit down and plan specific routines, systems, rules and ways to streamline things, because it can feel random, as far as when and what I’m having my kids do, and I am so over having to make these types of decisions.
I will say that the best thing I’ve done as far as keeping a clean home when homeschooling a large family is to embrace minimalism. Highly simplifying our spaces, because the more we have, the more mess that can be made, and the less we have, the less mess that can be made and the faster it is to get things back in order.
The Minimal Mom here on RUclips has been my #1 source of inspiration, and it has made a dramatic impact on our lives.
As far as socks go, we only keep 1 kind of sock for our kids so that there is never an issue with finding a mate. We do have different sizes, but it is very easy to tell apart, and all the socks of that size (S, M, L) go in a bin, and you just grab 2.
We also don’t let laundry pile up…..the laundry gets folded/hung and put away once it comes out of the dryer. If I don’t have time, then it stays until I do, or else I must make time for the 5-15 minutes it takes to do the load. Between that and not having excess clothing, it is all very manageable.
Thank you! Great point about minimalism. I think that is so true. The less you have, the less your stuff has you. It makes it so much easier to maintain the house when you have less. Love the minimal mom! Someone else referred her to me recently and I have been watching her videos. Thanks for sharing your system for socks and laundry...lots of good stuff!
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Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
I’m so inspired by you thank you for the tips ❤
Thank you so much! And you're welcome!
Thank you ,such a great video!!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for another great video!
I am wondering about the older children doing their own laundry. Surely they too wash whites / lights / darks separately.
Doesn’t that mean that often there will be, say, one pair of white socks or perhaps two dark shirts in the washing machine? The one kid doing the two dark shirts will block the washing machine for everybody else…
We don't separate. We dump everything in the wash together, with the exception of my husband's work clothes
@@laurenrasmussen7997 How do you keep the colors from bleeding? Don’t the whites and colors turn grey if you wash them with dark clothes? Perhaps I need to rethink my priorities. Clean + grey is better than not getting done.
@@carinthiamontana7069 if something is new I might wash it separately but other than that, nothing bleeds. We do not wear white though lol
@@laurenrasmussen7997 Thanks for answering!
You're welcome!!
I am not too particular about their laundry. I'm just happy when it gets done, lol! For the most part, they don't separate their clothes.They don't own many whites and if they do have something newer/white, they can put it in with the regular laundry to be washed with lights when I separate our family's laundry. They generally each have one load a week and wash it on a cold wash.
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.
Was trying to have homeschool but with9 month old twin ba bys all day it feels like im drowning
I'm sorry you feel like you are drowning! That's a hard place to be and I have been there at different times over the years with our kids as well. Don't throw in the towel just yet. The season with babies passes quickly and it does get easier as all your kids start to get older. I encourage you to focus on your home, meeting the needs of your individual kids, and do school work here and there as you are able. A little progress every day makes a big difference over time. As moms, I really think we put too much pressure on ourselves.
You are drowning (or at least tired from treading water) if you have 9 month old twins and other children…from a mother of other children and twins at the caboose 💕 but they do get older . How many children do you have and ages? My youngest are twin boys and are 5 now. My oldest is a girl and 15. With 3 more girls in between.
We did public school pre-school-3rd then COVID hit and the last half was homeschooled from the school. Our daughter went back 1st half of the 4th, but then at xmas we came to homeschool full time 4th-6th. Our daughter started back to public school in 7th grade, but it was not a good fit, she was bored, so we brought her home, and will stay home until she is done with high school. We do 7 days per wk., 2 grades per year, 1,000 hours or 8am-3pm 180 days per year per our state. Our daughter will finish high school at age 15 or 16. She will cleep out of college work with Sophia she can start at age 13, and 10th grade she can join the local junior college, or university at age 16 after completing high school. Basically she can finish an associates or higher college degree by 18. There was just to much drama and other fluff at the public school, and we just wanted school basics and not all the what day do you do the 8-10 classes she had in public school. Each day was diff., diff. outfit, diff. shoes depending on the activity. She went to public school from 7am-3pm, then homework until 11pm, we were both retired and spent more time spinning or wheels trying to figure out what lessons to do each night. Public school just did not fit for our family. We do LCA/ACE program. It is all laid out nice and neat and workbooks, and all structured for those who do not want to figure it all out, it is already figured out. Is it cheap, no, but we figured public school we spent $3k between special shoes for PE and all the other outings, and $300 per year for supplies, and just always something-lunches, etc., all was costly, so each year is around $1,025 for each grade total with clothes, supplies, food, lunches, PE, art, etc., this includes all workbooks, they the school puts in grades in transcript which is nice and they are accredited. I was shocked we save over $2k per grade from homeschool vs public school, but again all the festivals, fairs, proms, etc. that you don't have to do at home. There are plenty of local freebie field trips and learning experiences. I don't have to deal with drugs, alcohol, non-Christian teachings, what gender you feel for the day, friends we wish you would hang with, pregnancy, or boyfriends, we are just doing school right now in 7th and 8th grade-not all the other stuff. Right now we just needed to get through school, and not Juve. or juve friends or influences. We have a daily structured start and finish time like public school, but we also have items we have to accomplish each day school work wise also. Public school is so diff. than when I went in the 80's, not that is was great then, but I also felt like I was in prison being stuck in school all day long. We have so much more time to do school and life skills.
Thanks for sharing your story with me! I agree, we have so many benefits as homeschoolers! I am glad to hear that it has been such a great fit for you and the kids!
What video games do your kids play? I am looking for some things for my kids.
I'm not sure I'm the best person for video game suggestions, but here goes! Ours are nothing new or fancy. They play Minecraft, Need for Speed Pay Back(racing game) and NBA2K20 (basketball game). We have the agar.io, slither.io, subway surfer, cube surfer, and blocky puzzle apps that some of the younger kids like also.
Would you say having 5 children is a large family ?
When I had our fifth, it felt very much like a large family because it was more kids than our family had growing up. It was a big adjustment learning how to manage more. I guess it is all relative to what you are used to and what kind of family you come from.