Six things you can do to get your children’s room organized.

1: Make the solution fit the child:

Get a child's perspective.  Look at your child's space, storage, furniture and possessions from his or her vantage point.   Large adult furniture doesn’t work for kids. Small hands have trouble with heavy doors or drawers. Folding doors are a pinch hazard. and can come of their rails if pushed from low down. Hanging rods are too high.

Normal large toy boxes and trunks leave a jumble of mixed toy parts. Use large trunks for big things, small translucent boxes for parts and small similar items. Use specialty organizers for magazines, videos etc.

For younger children consider removing closet doors entirely and add cubicle storage along with much lower rods with child sized hangers. Beware of hooks.  Use floor-level open containers to hold toys. For clothes use cubicles with color coding  to appeal to their sense of play when sorting. Use plastic baskets to store socks and underwear.  (For some conditioning early on give them a daily checklist of things to do and maintain.  Involve them in the process.  Make it a learning activity. Give them life skills. If they’re involved they understand. )

2:  Sort and simplify:

Place out of season clothing in a clothing archive in the basement or elsewhere.  And how many of the same thing does he need in the room.?  Create a toy archive so that your kids can re-discover old toys instead of buying them new ones to clog up and overflow the room.

3:  Make it easier to put away than take out:

Store books upright—easier to put away than in piles. Have some open toy bins for immediate drop zones. One dump not 25.

4:  Organize by usage:

Less frequently used items stored above.  Create an area where a child can roll cars etc. into storage on the floor level—into closets etc.  Seldom used but liked to look at items can be displayed on shelving high in corners or on walls.

5:  Label stuff:

Have fun with labels. Mark places where things should go. Use pictograms if necessary to make it fun. Socks get flung in that hamper etc. Again make it a game. If there were hoops above garbage cans on the streets there would be less of it in the gutter.

6:  Routine, routine, routine:

Life is a routine game. Make kids learn early. Give them a task suited to that time of day.  Straighten bed etc.