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By Gavin Boyle
Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, the women behind home organization tool “The Home Edit,” shared with THE TODAY SHOW how they motivate their kids to keep the home clean.
“The thing is, literally, if anything is out of place, I’m like, ‘Well, I’m going to donate it,’” Shearer told the show. “I don’t even let [my kids] own enough things to get messy because I can’t have it in my house. It makes me insane. So I’m going to donate it.”
“If [items] are laying around, you’re clearly not respecting them,” Teplin added. “So, we’ll give them to someone who will.”
This is just one tip from Shearer and Teplin who’s entire jobs are to share how to keep the home clean. Their business, The Home Edit, offers dozens of tips and suggestions on how to organize homes and keep them pristine even when they are well lived in. This tip, in particular, has made a big difference in their own lives as it has encouraged their children to take initiative with their cleanliness, teaching them how to be responsible for their things, rather than letting them contribute to a messy home.
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While some parents may see this trick as placing too much of a burden on their children, especially if they follow through with the donations, it is important for children to learn how to be responsible, and being responsible with their things is a great place to start. Actor Matthew McConaughey has spoken about the importance of responsibility in the past, explaining how he taught his children to take their chores seriously, because in doing so, they are learning how to handle freedom.
“Responsibility breed freedom,” McConaughey said. “[If] you can take care of your stuff, chores, you take care of yourself, you will have more freedoms in the future.
Other celebrities have explained how having chores to do kept them grounded as they found fame, helping them understand that they are not better than anyone else even though they are on TV.
“I’m very fortunate to have two parents who never overemphasized the importance of Hollywood or my acting career,” Great American Family actress Danica McKeller told Fox News Digital. “It was just a cool, fun thing that I did… I had chores when I cam home, and I was a regular kid and that kept me very grounded. It kept me in touch with where my value is. And that makes a big difference.”
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