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Kids and household tasks – what other families do
In a recent weekly PWK newsletter I asked readers about what household tasks they have their children do. I asked the question as I was wondering whether or not I was asking …
Avoiding The Chaos
Over the last week or two I have been working on creating a solid base of organisation to avoid chaos! The next month holds lots of activities both personally and work wise: …
Kids Chores – What My Kids Do In The Evening
This is the third post in a series on kids’ chores. We break the kids’ chores up into times across the day as follows: Kids Chores – What My Kids Do In …
Kids Chores – What My Kids Do After School
To answer a question from a reader recently I shared the the table of my kids’ chores on my Facebook Page. It received a great response and also requests for similar tables …
Keep Calm and Talk Quietly
In my post Stop, Look, Listen and Reflect – Mid Year Review I noted that I had been assessing how all aspects of my life are going: How am I feeling about …
Decluttering Tips To Get You Back In Order
Back in February I published a number of posts on de-cluttering. Much of which was based on fabulous ideas from readers and today’s post on de-cluttering is also from a lovely reader …
Decluttering – Hot Spots Around The House
I have been talking a bit about decluttering both here on the blog and in the Planning With Kids Newsletter. In the February newsletter I set myself the challenge to declutter these …
Organizing Your Home – Labelling and Sorting
Today’s post is from a lovely reader of Planning With Kids. Christina responded to my decluttering newsletter with some progress of her own in the constant battle with clutter! Christina is a mother or 3 …
Drowning In Clutter – Tips From Readers
Last week I sent out the monthly Planning With Kids Newsletter and it was titled Drowning In Clutter (you can click on that link to see the full email.) For those of …
Revisiting Areas Of Household Organisation
With the kids making their way back to school / kinder, I have been revisiting the organisation of different elements of our household. I find that the organisational processes we use need …
School Holiday Tips – Keeping The House Tidy
Firstly notice that the heading of this post says “Keeping The House Tidy”. It doesn’t say perfect or spotless! To be honest I don’t think it is possible to do that when …
Free eBook: 101 tips to control the chaos
When my book was launched back in May, I received fantastic support from the Blogosphere to help promote it. Amongst the promotion was a competition run by Kleenex Mums. They had 25 …
Simplify Your Life
{Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³} Today’s post is from Debra Dane. After 8 years as a stay at home mother Deb is now combining her previous office based skills with those gained as …
How To Document Your Life
Today’s guest post is from MummyK. MummyK is mum to one, wife to one, a journalist, a photographer, a mad knitter, wannabe seamstress, zombie movie lover, and hard liquor lover. She blogs …
Kids Rooms – Tips On Keeping Them Tidy
Our five kids share two bedrooms. I like that they share. I like that as they go bed at night they have each other for company. I like how they have to …
Change Of Season – Autumn
Summer this year in Melbourne was almost non existent, but compared to the weather based tragedies we had around the rest of Australia, I simply can’t complain. Instead I am going to …
Kids Chores – What My Kids Do In The Morning
So we have been back at school for a few weeks now. Over the holidays we ran to such a different pace and timetable – it was lovely! While the kids have …