Why do we recommend it: Because these weeks of quarantine and isolation at home find us not only with the own anxieties that this exceptional situation generates, but also reunits us with our own home, with the things we like, and also with whichWe are tired of seeing, with the order of a room and, perhaps, the chaos of another.Therefore, one of the activities in which we can also involve children is the home organization.

"We are not yet aware of how important it is to live organized in our daily lives," says Estefania Fryd, an expert in the art that Marie Kondo made by force of boxes and containers: ordering.As the Interior Planner Marietta Vitale suggests Entremujeres Clarín, we can take this time as an opportunity to assemble routines and teach our children new habits.

However, not to despair and not embark on too ambitious projects.Vitale believes: "I think you don't have to go crazy with order (not now), order deep (any room full of things or a bag or garage) requires making decisions, removing memories, finding things that we have not seen for forTime ... that's why I think it's not time for this.Small projects is what I recommend: order a shelf, the drawer of the light table or some corner of the kitchen ".

It is not one day to the other

Fryd, creator of "The Art of Organizing", a company dedicated to the home organization, and the first of the six "certified" consultants by Marie Kondo at the time in Argentina, says that making order a habit is a process: "Learning to organize does not give one day to the other, neither for boys nor for adults.Therefore, before teaching them, we have to be able to do it well, and then transmit them.And the more boys learn, the better;It's like languages, so they incorporate them better ".

Vitale agrees: "The boys copy and follow the example of the parents and require our attention and accompaniment to teach them the tool of order".Therefore, patience will be key for the facts and expectations to be at a good point.

The disorder is not bad

Estefanía is pregnant with just over 23 weeks and, prior to quarantine, I thought that these days they would find her preparing everything for the arrival of her first daughter, but for now she is formed with navigating online and choosing some online clothes to buy moreforward.While thinking about how the office will disarm to make it the baby's room, he says: "I am one of those who believe that the house is to be lived, it makes no sense to live in a magazine house all the time and be stressed becauseNothing can be touched or used, even more if we live with boys.It is logical that the house is disordened, the important thing is to live organized so that, when we have to order, everything is faster and faster.If the house is organized, the ´a keep to keep everything in its place ”is very useful," says Fryd.

"Until three years, parents do 99% of the work, but we can leave something small to do, how to put a doll on a basket, and congratulate them to do this," Estefanía tells Entremujeres Clarín.And he adds: "From three to six years, I advise that they already tell them what they are doing and that their children help them and, above all, that they begin to reflect for themselves.For example, we can ask them "do you think this book goes here or here?" At this stage you can also start bending your own clothes and we always show them as if it were a game ".

How to order children, according to their age

Vitale -quien tiene un bebé de diez meses y empieza a pensar cómo poner en práctica sus propios consejos- es licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación con orientación en Publicidad, pero se apasionó también por el interiorismo y el Feng Shui​.In his second book, an orderly life.7 Steps to enjoy your time, your home and your life (Vergara), share some suggestions on how to add the boys in this type of task.

Here, a fragment, age by age:

2-3 years

Save some of your toys in your place to pile up books on library shelves

Throw out

4-5 years (added to the previous ones)

Watering plants

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Clean a liquid (water, juice) spilled on the table

Help put and lift the table

6-7 years (added to the previous ones)

Fold the towels

Eating the pet (putting water is easier than dosing the food, but to simplify this task you can mark how far the food container)

Gather leaves/rake some garden area

Make the bed or cover it with the padding

Sort the bath after bathing: hang the towel, place the dirty clothes on the corresponding basket, cover the toothpaste and locate it in place, along with the toothbrush.

8-9 years (added to the previous ones)

Save clothes on the closet (ordering it on the shelves is usually easier than hanging it in the barrales because it may not reach them)

Save the shoes and shoes in your place

10-11 years (added to the previous ones)

Sweep some atmosphere of the house

Help your youngest brothers do some school homework

Help cook

12 and more (added to the previous ones)

Empty the washing machine

Cook something simple

3 slogans to do as a family

In his book, Marietta also proposes some slogans to frame home tasks in joint activities.Any ideas:

1 - The order game

Pond.I wrote each task on paper: fold the clean clothes, or gather toys.Once all the tasks written in different papers are, they are placed in a container and each family member takes a paper.The task written in him will be what he has to do.Finally, announce that all tasks must be made before dinner!

2 - Family responsibilities

Tasks can be divided into age, time, talent, interest, or even priorities.Arm a daily, weekly or monthly calendar so that everyone can remember who does everything and when.Children usually respond better to tasks if they are created a system of stars in which in the end they are waiting for a small reward.

3 - Family calendar

Ideally, look for a wall calendar that has enough space for the whole family to write down their activities (60 x 40 cm is a good size).You can build it with paper or cards.Hang it in a visible and central place, to make it practical and functional.A good place can be the kitchen, where we can hang it magnetized to the refrigerator.

It is a good option to be able to build routines of: family meals, exercise, school tasks, house tasks, games, screen, etc..Thus to be able to establish limits to the times and to each activity.

Fryd closes: "In the same way that we make the teeth brush, it is a habit, we do the same with the order.And we must keep in mind not underestimate what boys can or not: if you already know how to use the cell phone or tablet, you can lift and put the table or change a roll of toilet paper ".