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Do you have a toddler at home? If you said yes, then you know that keeping your house clean seems just about impossible at times. No sooner do you clean an entire room before the little one has toys, clothes and anything else they can get their hands on strewn all around and you are back to square one. Every room has its own set of problems with kitchen and bathroom being the worst. In the kitchen, it seems like you are picking food off the floor non-stop or wiping up spills from their latest drink. The bathroom can be a place of nightmares for a mom of a toddler. There is just so much stuff kids can do in there.
If you find yourself in a cleaning paradox, you will appreciate this little gem I put together to help keep your bathroom clean and your sanity in check. Here is your
Guide for Cleaning a Little Kid’s Bathroom
Store bath/shower/hair products in a caddy. Little hands love to grab what they can reach. If you have shampoo bottles lining the sides of the tub, chances are, your toddler is going to grab them and run or just knock them down. Prevent this by keeping your products stored in a caddy away from their reach.
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Wipe the toilet seat daily and keep some cleaning wipes handy to clean the toilet seat down daily. This is especially true if you have boys or you are potty training your toddler. Spills happen, but if you can stay on top of them, they are easy to clean. Also be sure to keep the toilet lid down when not in use, no one wants to fish a toy out of the toilet.
Store cleaning products in a cabinet with a child lock on it. This may be a given, but this encompasses more than just the chemicals. You know that toilet bowl brush that for some reason seems to attract little ones? Store that in there too. If there is nothing out in the open for them to grab, you have nothing to worry about.
Don’t go overboard with bath toys. Sure bath toys are adorable, but kids can only play with one toy at a time. Think about cutting down on the number of toys you keep in your bathroom to avoid the clutter.
Raise your toilet paper. Depending on the size and layout of your bathroom, you might consider raising your toilet paper holder or finding another way to keep toilet paper out of the reach of little ones. I know many people who have discovered a house full of unrolled toilet paper after their little ones realize how fun it can be to run around with a roll.
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Do you have a toddler at home? What is your best secret for keeping the bathroom messes to a minimum?
Such great tips for bathroom organization and cleaning. Seeing your photos makes me miss all those fun items we needed for our kids when they were small. Keeping the lid down is so important as we had to fish out Lego’s from our toilet numerous of time. I can vouch for the 2000 flushes as we use that as well. Oh great idea for the toilet paper roll. 🙂
Great tips! Boy, keeping my bathroom clean with a toddler around can be hard at times. I always keep the lid down because what most people may not know is the toilet carry more germs then any other area of the bathroom.
This is great info! Cleaning the bathroom is a tough job but when you have a toddler, it’s even worse! These are great tips, the little ones can certainly make the bathroom a mess in a hurry!
One of the most important things I clean in my home is the bathroom. I am a little bit of a neat freak so when my daughter was a toddler I was all about getting it done more than perfectly.I think about all of the gross things that may have went down in there and all of the things that toddlers touch so I always kept that in mind when sanitizing then bathroom. These are great tips!
I remember the days of having little ones under foot. Getting anything done was a nightmare. I remember thinking “wait, didn’t I just clean the living room an hour ago?” Super great tips for getting a bathroom tidied up! That’s the one room in the house that I’m picky about. Especially if we’re entertaining! x
Wow – toddler messes are the worst! I can’t imagine how it’d be like to keep up after a toddler in the bathroom. I love how you cover this topic because so much bacteria breeds in the bathroom, so I like keeping it as sparkling clean as possible.
I have figured out how to get my bathroom cleaned in just five minutes. I actually wrote a post on it. I am a mom of a toddler and whoa, the difference in the amount of times i had to clean, pick up after him, clean again. I now have a great strategy that allows me less time cleaning.
Being a mom of boys, cleaning the bathroom is in my daily task list. I cannot believe how they can mess up their toilet! They are no longer toddlers but being boys, I still have to constantly be on my toes to make sure their toilet is clean and smelling nice. I will follow your advice and have their bathroom squeaky clean in no time at all.
Well, I no longer have any little ones at home, because my “kids” are in their 20s and 30s! I’m a grandmother now, though, and I have seen my granddaughters undo everything my daughter (their mommy) tries to accomplish in a day. I know she is VERY careful about keeping cleaning supplies locked up and keeps bath toys in a net with suction cups. I’ve never tried that 2000 Flushes product, but it looks like something that might work here with our hard water.