Let’s do some detail cleaning in our living rooms today. Move the furniture (or have someone help you move the furniture), and detail vacuum where the furniture sat and clean the baseboards behind the furniture. I do these missions as well, and what I find after years of cleaning like this is that it is not overwhelming, and it is not completely yucky when I detail clean under the furniture. I work my way through the five Zones each month. This keeps me from having to do a big Fall cleaning or Spring cleaning. There is freedom in having daily routines and working through the various Zones in my home. Your children can apply the same philosophy to cleaning their rooms. Their rooms can be broken down into five zones. Each day of the week is a different zone. Download a copy of the Student Control Journal. Print it. Give it to your children.

Student Control Journal

• Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
• Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
• Swish and Swipe
• Start Your Laundry
• Decide on Dinner
• Check Your Calendar
• Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
• Clean out your refrigerator. Toss the science experiments.

School:

•  Check your paperwork and update your schedule and lesson plans. Mark your attendance form, if your state requires it.

• Eat Lunch
• Clear off One Hot Spot
• Reboot the Laundry
• Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
• Drink Your Water
• Write up a menu plan for the next 7 days. Check your pantry and freezer and make a grocery list. This habit will save you time and money. Try out some new recipes with the slow cooker. It will save you time once you start back to your school schedule.

• Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
• Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
• Put things at the Launch Pad that you will need first thing in the morning
• Shine Your Sink
• Clean Off a Hot Spot
• Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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