This guide outlines strategies for ensuring your children’s rooms are optimally germ free and healthy for them to be in.
Kids can be germ magnets, can’t they? It seems like every time they go anywhere, they pick up some cough or cold. A lot of that has to do with their developing immune systems, but their often untidy habits definitely contribute.
Keeping a kids room germ free
If you want to keep the germs to a minimum in their own rooms, there are a lot of helpful things you can do to make a room germ free, and we want to share some of our best ideas with you on that very topic.
Wash the Toys
A lot of toys can be washed and sanitized as easily as you wash dishes to keep them germ free. In fact, you can use the same method, taking simple hard plastic toys and putting them in the kitchen sink in some soapy water to tidy them up. You can do this with most building blocks and a large range of plastic toys. Just don’t try this method with any toys that have small metal parts, like screws or metal joints. Those could rust in the water.
Teddies and plushies can be cleaned up in the washing machine. You will probably want to use a gentle cycle and air dry them to make sure they don’t get damaged, but as long as you are gentle with them, you can kill a lot of germs and make these much safer for taking to bed and snuggling up with.
Clean Bedding Regularly
A lot of the germs in the bedroom are centered on the bed itself. Your kid’s sheets, blankets and pillowcases are probably harboring millions of tiny germs right now. It’s a good idea to keep them germ free that you change these out or wash them every week at least. This includes washing their weighted blanket or cover. This keeps the germ build-up to a minimum. You should also shake out the bedding every day or two to prevent a buildup of dust and dirt.
To help minimize germs in the bed area, it’s wise to have your child take a bath before going to bed and then make sure they stay clean until bedtime. This way, they won’t be tracking as many germs into the bedroom and onto their bed. You can also have your kids use antibacterial soaps to ensure that they are getting rid of as many germs as possible when they wash their hands or take a bath.
Keep Carpets Clean
Some parts of your kid’s bedroom will collect germs easier than others. How tightly an item holds onto germs and how easily germs are trapped there will depend on how the item is used and what material it is made from. So, carpets, rugs, and mats tend to have a lot of germs in them. They do a good job of keeping your kid’s feet clean, but they also tend to collect a whole lot of dust, oils, dirt, and terms. Germs can get back onto your kid’s feet as they walk across the carpets, so you want to clean out those carpets every so often to keep down the number of germs in your kid’s bedroom.
Something as simple as vacuuming the carpets and shaking them out outdoors can be very beneficial and to keep them germ free. You may also want to have the carpets cleaned by an expert cleaning service once or twice a year. Another way to keep carpets from housing germs as much is to spray them with an antibacterial solution. This doesn’t remove any dirt, but it’s great at killing germs so they won’t be as harmful.
Use and Clean Trashcans
If you don’t have a trashcan placed in your kid’s room, then you should add one to help keep the room germ free. This gives kids a convenient place to put their garbage, and it can be tempting for them to put trash on the floor or leave it in their room for a while before putting it away simply because there is no trashcan nearby.
The trash can should be kept clean and emptied regularly. Liquid spills in the trashcan can create unpleasant smells and attract pests that bring in their own germs. Emptying the trash can regularly (which is a duty you can assign to your child) will to keep them germ free and help keep the room smelling fresh and pleasant.
Keep Food Out of the Bedroom
One of the best ways to keep pests out of the children’s room is to not permit any food into the space. Telling your kids to eat at the dining room table or outside the house will save you a lot of hassle and clean up and help to keep them germ free. It also minimizes the risk of having pests in the bedroom.
If vermin or insects find a food source in a room, they will make their way to it and possibly even build a nest there, which makes them much harder to get rid of. You could try telling their kids only certain kinds of snacks are allowed in the bedroom, but it’s better just to keep that area as a no-food zone and reduce the germs there.
Spray for Germs Regularly
The final bit of advice we want to give you for how to keep your kids bedroom as germ free as possible is to use an antibacterial spray in the bedroom on a frequent basis. Here are some of the key areas you should be spraying that will be likely to have germs:
- doorknob
- desk
- dresser handles
- trashcan cover
- TV remote
- video game controllers
- cell phone
If you spray these areas every day or every few days, you’ll drastically cut down on the number of germs in the bedroom. Try not to use sprays that are strongly scented. Also make sure that you are using sprays that are safe and gentle for your children.
Final words
If you’re having trouble staying on top of cleaning that needs to be done in the bedroom to keep them germ free, you can assign your kids to do some of the cleaning each day and make things easier for both of you. Regular cleaning helps to prevent germs and keep pests out of the bedroom.
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