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organizing with your kids online workshop

Is your child’s clutter a source of stress or disagreement in your home? In this online workshop, you’ll learn how to team up with your kids to organize with them and put an end to clutter. Whether your child is a toddler or teenager or somewhere in between, if kid clutter is a source of stress in your home, this workshop will give you concrete ideas to get organized with your child. Learn on your family’s time schedule, with the support of a professional organizer and a friendly online community. Best yet, with our generous refund policy, you can try this workshop for one week completely risk free. If you don't feel this workshop will help you organize with your child after one lesson, we will gladly give you a full refund.

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price: $45.00

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Organizing with Your Kids

A fun + fresh approach to involving your kids in the organizing process so you’re both happy with the results (and they learn how to organize)!

start date: May 10, 2012
end date: June 7, 2012 (This is the final day of instructor participation in this workshop.)

community access dates: NEW! You will have exclusive access to the online lesson materials, gallery, and workshop forum through May 10, 2013—one full year of access!

duration: 3 lessons / 4 weeks. Lesson materials are released on Thursdays for the first three weeks of the workshop.

schedule: View workshop syllabus.

registration status: Registration is now closed.

instructor: Aby Garvey

Are you overwhelmed by your kids' clutter?

If you’re overwhelmed by your kids’ clutter or you’re just tired of dealing with it, you’re not alone. Even if you’re fairly organized, it’s always a different ball game when you’re organizing for someone else. And when it’s your own child, the stakes are even higher. I find that parents often judge themselves based on the results of their children.

I’ve been there, too. Right after becoming an organizer, I realized some of the spaces in my home didn’t look like they belonged in the home of a professional organizer. My daughter’s bedroom was right at the top of that list! She was a four year old who loved her stuff. All of it! The stuff was coming in—from birthday parties, Christmas, gifts from grandparents—faster than we could keep up and clear things out. This, coupled with my daughter’s sentimental side, made it difficult to keep her room clutter free…which made me doubt myself as a parent and an organizer.

Fast forward six years and I have learned a lot about how to organize with kids! Even more important, my kids have learned a lot! In fact, my son, now 12, organized his closet on his own after a recent shopping trip. I didn’t ask him to do it…he wanted to do it and he did it all by himself! All those years of going through his stuff together and involving him in the process of organizing paid off!

Kids can learn how to get organized just as they can learn how to ride a bike or brush their teeth. And you, as their parent, are the best person to teach your child how to do it. With the tips, secrets and strategies presented in this workshop, you’ll learn the process I’ve been using with my kids for years. You’ll leave this workshop armed with a plan and a process to create organized spaces that will work well for you and your kids. You will also have strategies and ideas for teaching your child organizing skills and habits that will serve them well for the rest of their lives.

When you teach your kids how to get organized, you give them a gift that lasts a lifetime! In Organizing with Your Kids, you will…

Learn how to involve your child in the organizing process so your child has ownership in the process, loves the results and is more motivated to keep his room organized and picked up going forward.
Discover a simple way to get started decluttering with your children even if you’re currently overwhelmed by all their stuff!
Adopt four essential agreements to make with yourself and your child to ensure your ongoing success.
Learn a simple strategy that will take the frustration out of organizing with your child, even if you aren’t on the same page today.
Find out how to get on the same page as your child before you begin organizing projects (and find out why it’s important to do so!).
Learn an alternative to letting go of your child’s things when they’re not around—one that will establish a sense of mutual trust and respect.
Discover common organizing obstacles you and your child may encounter as you organize together, plus simple strategies so you can detour around them to create an organized space that works for your child and reflects and honors her interests.
Learn a simple decluttering process you and your child can do together to make it easier to let go of items your child no longer uses or loves.
Learn how to organize and store your child’s items in a way that makes sense to him—making it easier for your child to use his things (and put them away when he is finished!).
Create an organizing plan with your child, including a list of projects you’ll be working on together, so you can prioritize your projects and start taking action.
Learn simple projects and strategies that will help you and your child enjoy the benefits of your organizing projects for much longer (instead of seeing the results unravel right before your eyes!).

Get answers to your questions from an organizing expert. With the Organizing with Your Kids workshop, you become part of a supportive and inspiring online community. For four full weeks, Aby, your instructor, and your classmates will be there to support you, answer your questions and provide ongoing inspiration as you take action and begin organizing with your child.

Create immediate results. You and your child won’t just learn life-changing concepts—you’ll put them into action over the course of the workshop. By the end of the workshop, you and your child will have successful organizing projects under your belt, plus concrete ideas to help your child stay organized going forward.

Have fun while you get things done! As with other simplify 101 workshops, you won’t just learn how to get the job done, you’ll have loads of fun along the way putting the concepts into action!

Make progress on your time schedule. This workshop is offered online, which means you can take action on the lesson concepts and participate in the online community anytime that fits your family’s schedule.

Get the support you need. At simplify 101 we believe that everything is more fun with friends along for the ride! During this workshop, you’ll love sharing your organizing journey with the private workshop community. You’ll get to view before and after photos from your classmates, and see their completed projects. Plus, stay motivated to tackle your organizing projects with your child by joining the daily organizing challenge!

Important note: For this workshop to be effective for you and your child, it’s important that you still have your child’s ear. In other words, you and your child need to communicate effectively with one another and work together as a team.

Try this workshop risk-free

At simplify 101, your complete satisfaction is our number one goal. We would love to give you the opportunity to experience our online organizing workshops and the empowering feeling that comes from creating change in your home and life. If you join this workshop and decide it isn't your cup of tea, just let us know by 4:00PM US CST on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 and we will be happy to give you a full, no-questions-asked refund. For more details, please see our cancellation policy.

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