The Kid Zone: Organizing Playrooms and Children’s Bedrooms

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

A Room of One’s Own

The assignment this week is to evaluate each family member–specific space in your home with an eye toward how the room is serving its primary user(s):

For kids’ rooms:

• Is the room organized in such a way that your child can participate in tidying?
• Can your child easily reach everything that you want them to be free to take out—and to put away?
• Consider what changes you might make to involve your child in the organizing process.

For man-caves and she-sheds:

• Is the space serving the most important purpose(s) to which it was originally dedicated?
• Does the primary user feel relaxed and peaceful in the room?
• How might the other members of the household help support the dedicated use of the space?
• Examine how you use a dedicated space and have a conversation about the parameters for use of the room.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.