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When you are
organizing a room and want it to stay that way, you look at three things:
tools, techniques, and timing.
Tools
In the bathroom, each member of the family needs their own place to keep their
tools. This includes a toothbrush, combs and brushes, shavers and blow
dryers, and bath towels. Personal tools need to be labeled with each
person's name.
For example, if there is room, there might be a separate towel rack for
everyone. If not, then towel racks can be shared. But, it is
important that each person have a "home" for their own towel. In
addition, each member of the family should have their own colored towel; or, if
that is not practical, a towel of similar color as other family members which
has been clearly labeled with his or her name. This places direct
responsibility upon each person to hang up their own towel after it has been
used.
In the same way, all bathroom tools need their own "home" and personal
labels.
Techniques
Each family member should know how to change the toilet paper when it runs out,
replace the kleenex when it is gone, and put out a new bar of soap when the old
is used up.
Family standards should be set up which include what the bathroom will look like
when a person has finished using the toilet: the toilet has been flushed,
the lid is down, and there is still toilet paper on the roll.
What will the bathroom look like after a person has brushed their teeth?
Has their toothbrush been put back in its "home", the toothpaste put
away, the sink cleaned of spittle, and the tap turned off?
What will the bathroom look like when a person has finished taking a
bath/shower:? Is their towel is hung up, the wash cloth has been put in
the dirty clothes bucket, and the shower curtain neatly spread to dry?
Timing
The family can meet together to discuss bathroom standards. Then
individual training and a practice session may be necessary to insure that
everyone understands the standards.
After that, someone in the family will have to be the "sheriff" in
order to help family members remember this duty. When a family member is
first learning to keep new standards, it may be necessary to have a "return
and report" method to check that when tooth brushing done, the toilet is
used, or baths are taken, the bathroom is left up to standard.
Find more helpful ideas in the "House of Order"
Handbook.
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