We had a cleaner the first year we moved to Singapore. She would come to wipe, vacuum, scrub, mop, and iron for a few hours weekly. It was great having her help so that I could spend my time elsewhere. However, her cleaning job became sloppy over time and Kodi (who was 2 at the time) started to associate mops and brushes with her. She thinks those are used exclusively by the cleaning lady.
As a concerned mother and housewife, I decided to let her go and started a new routine on Saturday afternoons. That is, all three of us roll up the sleeves and get the bucket out!
Kodi has been very interested in helping out various housework. She doesn't think of them as "hard" labor, but part of her everyday play. She likes washing and squeezing water out of the small piece of rag we give her to wipe her furnitures (although we always need to help her squeeze again to get rid of the excessive water). Later we got her a very cute stand-by-itself pink lion shaped duster/rag. She loves to waive it around and claims that she is the "super little helper".
The cleaning time has become a great team building exericse (if you are up for the fancy term) for us. We would each take up a share of the load, rotate between different rooms and comment on the fruit of our labor after the job is done. I would not say that it's the most fun thing we have ever done together, but absolutely a nice way to take care of our home. And for the record, the Saturday cleaning lasts about 1 to 1.5 hours. I scrub the bathrooms and Kun irons his many shirts on a different day.
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