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Moving Tips: Guide To Get Your Children To Pack Their Room

by Sofia Martin

You have a lot to take care of when you are moving, and taking care of everyone's packing should not be your responsibility. Yet, your moving day is approaching quickly, and your children have not helped pack their rooms. The following guide might help get your kids moving.

Be Quick and To The Point

Children have a hard time listening to big lectures. Your kids are well aware of their packing responsibility, so try to cut your lectures down to a minimum. Some parents have noticed that children tend to react better when you use a one word request. The problem with telling your kids what to do more than once is they will start to consider your initial requests unimportant. 

Pay Attention To Your Body Language

Body language includes different things, like your tone or your gestures. Your body language could be communicating the wrong message to your children. 

Consider the following:

  • Attempt to avoid yelling your requests from afar. This could indicate that your request is not important enough for you to make an effort to come to your children.
  • Try to use an upbeat and firm voice as much as possible.
  • Consider using the power of connection, such as looking your children in the eye when asking them to pack their rooms, or place your hand on their shoulder. This should make your children feel their actions will directly affect you. 

Do Not Underestimate Cleverness

Have you noticed how easy it is to remember a clever television commercial? Take a page right out of catchy commercials to get your children to finally finish packing up their room. Consider some of the following suggestions:

  • Instead of boring demands, try clever observations. Perhaps you can jokingly tell your kids to try on your shoes; since they do not want to pack up their shoes, they will not have several pairs of shoes to choose from. 
  • Personify a few things in your children's room. Try to use post it notes to give voice to some of their belongings. You can put a note on one of your children's jeans and write something like, "Why haven't you packed me? I have been good to you." 

You can also try to make packing a family project. You can make it something you can have fun doing together. As you can see, there are a few simple ways that you can make your children listen to you without having to experience a headache due to their non-compliance. Plus, you'll be prepared for when the movers (such as those from Wheaton World Wide Moving) arrive.

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