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Make spring cleaning a party with these ideas

Having trouble getting the kids to lend a hand? Add a little fun! Here are a few suggestions:

Sock-cleaning the bathtub: Your kids get to feel like they’re making a mess while they’re actually cleaning. Coat the tub with some lathery soap flakes or sudsy cleanser, add water, and let them dance the tub clean.

Make hand puppet dusters: Hand puppets can slide along banisters, along coffee tables and counters, “devouring” dust as they go. Hot glue gun some felt ears, yarn wiskers, googly eyes onto a sock and you’re kid will have a handheld cleaning buddy.

Glam cleaning tools: Get kids to make their own glam feather dusters by bunching together multicoloured craft feathers with an elastic and fastening it to a bamboo rod or chopstick. Kids’ are much more likely to get into something when they get to use tools that are their size for them.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Does the Ontario government need to support adoptive parents more?

2. Are schools just uptight these days or are they acting in everyone’s best interests? The New York Times Motherlode blog reported that kids have been suspended recently for taping up cardboard letters to ask a girl to the prom and passing gas in sync on the bus.

3. The Washington Post editors polled its writers on what parents should get rid of during spring cleaning. Top offenders: crib bumpers, snack time, computers in the library and virtual reality video games. What would you get rid of?

4. Former Arkansas governor and a likely candidate to run for the Republican presidential nomination Mike Huckabee has come out with a line of educational animated history videos. Because he doesn’t think the schools are doing a good job.  Read more...