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  organizing with your kids — self-paced workshop (instant download)
 
 
Is your child’s clutter a source of stress or disagreement in your home? In this self-paced workshop, you’ll learn how to team up with your kids to organize with them and put an end to clutter. Best yet, you will learn on your family’s time schedule at a time and pace that works for you. 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.

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organizing with your kids — self-paced workshop

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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 complete this self-paced 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 this instant download, 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!).
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 as a self-paced download, which means you can take action on the lesson concepts when it best fits your family’s schedule.

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. 


The Organizing with Your Kids self-paced workshop includes:
  • Three information-packed lessons, plus a pre-workshop assignment, delivered in printable PDF format.

  • A resource page with links to charities and not-for-profits that can benefit from donated items.

  • Everything you need to get organized step-by-step with your kids…including the following colorful planning forms and worksheets:

    • Four Agreements for Organizing with Your Kids worksheet

    • Project List planning form

    • How Much Does Your Child Really Need? (worksheet)

    • Turn Your Ideas Into Goals worksheet

    • Storage Container Questionnaire and Shopping List to help you find the right storage solutions for the job!

    • Organizing Projects + Habits worksheet

    • Includes over 80 pages of content.


About this Self-Paced Workshop
  • This self-paced workshop is an instant download pdf document that includes the handouts from simplify 101’s online workshop Organizing with Your Kids. This download does not include access to any of the online workshop features such as the online community, access to the instructor, gallery, forum, etc.

  • The text in this document may make occasional reference to the online workshop forum and photo gallery. These are features of the online workshop only, and are not included with the self-paced workshop.

  • Immediately following your payment, you will be provided a download link that you may use to download your document. The download is in PDF format, which may be read and printed with the free Adobe Reader.

  • Purchase of this self-paced workshop qualifies you to join an upcoming session of the Organizing with Your Kids online workshop as an alumnus if you decide you would like to organize with the support and inspiration of the simplify 101 online community and your instructor Aby Garvey. As an alumnus you will qualify to take the online version of this workshop for 50% off regular enrollment.
 



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