Positive Parenting Blog

Should I Clean the House or Play With My Child?  Clean the House or Play With My Child - This Question Causes Mothers A Lot of Stress? If you’re like most mums, this dilemma is likely to be a regular occurrence, particularly with young children. We all want a nice and tidy home. How tidy your home needs to be is a personal preference issue. However, I think we often get so bogged down by trying to manage everything and to have things kept nicely at home, because we attach a lot of our success as a parent to how well our homes are functioning. Even if you have a cleaner, in between cleaning days you will have days when the house gets messy and you’re back to trying to balance competing demands. The usual advice is not very helpful The usual advice we mothers get is “don’t worry about how messy the house is. You don’t have to have a perfect looking home”. But the reality is that most of us are not trying to maintain a Martha Stewart styled home. We are just trying to avoid the p...