25 Home Management Tips for Mothers and Proxies

How do you keep things in order at home? This article lists 25 efficient home management tips for you.

For mothers and proxy mothers, including husbands, here are 25 efficient home management tips for you to upkeep your house and teach your kids.

7 House Cleaning Tips

1. Have a handy dandy weekly reminder posted on your fridge. Like the parents’ meeting at school, field trip of your child, regular checkup of your husband, regular checkup of your baby, deadline of school project of your son, etc. The market day too.
2. Clean your fridge, rice dispenser handle, gas range, water dispenser, gas stove, microwave, etc regularly. You can use any dishwashing soap mix with lemon or calamansi, or any laundry detergent for cleaning. Rinse with water using a clean wipe.
3. Clean kitchen sink and tiles and remove dirt with the use of organic vinegar, or lemon or calamansi. You may also opt to use the store-bought baking soda or joy liquid detergent if the other organic cleaning agents are not available.
4. Purchase a magic mop for easy cleaning. So quick and easy to use. You just press the center and Voila, you have a quick mop. Thoroughly clean your chopping boards and knife where germs lurk the most. You may opt to soap it twice. It is much better to have a separate chopping board for meats, and another one for veggies.
5. Clean your pantry, water dispenser, microwave, oven, gas range, bread toaster regularly. Pest might lurk there.
6. Regularly wash your kitchen hand towels, placemats, potholder, wipes, etc.
7. Sterilize all your spoons and fork regularly.

9 Tips on Arranging Things at Home

1. Have a few of your indoor plants in your living room to liven up your house. Arrange them in places where you can easily see them to relieve you of stress.
2. Place kitchen wares, kitchen utensils for occasional use on top. Whilst the daily use at eye level and within your easy grasp on your kitchen cabinets.
3. Hang the dish organizer on the wall of the kitchen sink for easy access, quick dry and to minimize clutter.
4. You can likewise put a transparent tray inside the pantry to make it more organize and quick to locate.
5. Have your pantry arrange like in condiments, small ones in the first row and taller items at the back.
6. Separate the containers for sponge for cleaning plates, and for wiping the tiles. Clean it every day.
7. Arrange food condiments or regroup them per type and bottles of the same kinds.
8. Sequence small condiments on first row, taller ones at the back.
9. Put name tags on bottles for accessibility.

7 Tips on Dealing With the Kids

1. Volunteer as a family. That way your kids will develop their social skills, emotional quotient, self sufficiency and learn to value gratefulness for all the blessings your kids have.
2. When you go out to a mall, train your child not to keep purchasing unnecessary toys to avoid tantrums. Before going out of the house, you may start by telling your child in a calm manner that you will go there to do some groceries and that’s the budget for the family.
3. Have a box container for all the toys of your kids. You may also opt to have a clean laundry basket for this. Train your kids to return the toys on the toy container every after use.
4. Have a turbo in your kitchen for a crispy meat cooking without oil and your kids will gonna love you for it!
5. Teach your child the deeper value of being a prayer warrior family.
6. Train your child to appreciate books and learning early on.
7. Expose your child to some memory games and sports.

2 Emergency Measures

1. Secure a temperature and blood pressure reader at your home. These two gadgets can help you decide what to do when someone in the family gets sick because of a virus or bacterial infection and surges in blood pressure that would require hospitalization. Always have an emergency kit at your house. When emergencies arise, you know where to get the life-saving kits.
2. Always have a handy dandy rechargeable flashlight, whistle and a tiny bell for emergency cases.

For husbands who have read this article out of curiosity: acknowledge forevermore your wife’s efforts at the house and help her when you can, especially on weekends when you don’t have an office work.

A happy wife is a happy life!

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