Nothing that you have used social networks, you will have read the following headline: “Marie Kondo gives up: it is impossible to have a tidy house with three children.” In ‘La Noche de COPE’ we have the collaboration of the ‘Spanish Marie Kondo’ every week. Her name is Begoña Pérez, we know her as ‘La Ordenatriz’, and she does not have three children. she is seven. This week we have spoken with her and to see that children, far from being a problem for order at home, can be a great help.
“This has already happened to several of us around here,” says Begoña Pérez about the news of Marie Kondo. Her first book, ‘The Magic of Order’, sold 10 million copies, was translated into more than 40 languages and turned the KonMari method into a true global phenomenon. Now, a decade, four books and two Netflix series laterjustified in one of his ‘webinars’ that his house “is messy” after having his “third child”, but that he does it because “the way in which I am organizing my time is correct for me at this stage”.
For ‘La Ordenatriz’, “order evolves and sometimes we need other kinds of things.” But far from regretting, a woman who does not have three children has seven, she explains to the famous Marie Kondo how to involve them in household chores so that time is not a problem. “We have to have a lot of willpower and be constant. Many times they won’t feel like it, they are learning… You have to understand it, but you have to make them participate,” says Begoña Pérez.
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“We’re all using the house, so it involves all of us. It’s great that they take care of some things. Also, if they find themselves useful, they learn how to do it and are happy with themselves, they will achieve a much healthier self-esteem“, reflects ‘La Ordenatriz’. It is precisely in those moments of crisis where they also “notice it” and “behave phenomenal”. their attitude when “they see us nervous”.
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But, What are the tasks that a young person can assume? “A child of a year and a half can take the diaper, which is his, to the wastebasket,” he explains. Another example is that “if there is someone who wants to help cook, we must exploit these things in our favor”, especially after “Masterchef has done a lot in favor of this”. This implies that another child “can pick up the dishes” or “teenagers do the washing up.” “Those aged 12, 13 and 14 can do a lot of things like do DIY work or start putting on washing machines and hanging them up too,” says ‘La Ordenatriz’.
Of course, you have to bury condescension. “If they do it wrong, you have to tell them,” says Begoña Pérez. To achieve this involvement, he explains that “the key is for everything to be seen”: “It seems not, but sometimes we hide so as not to take anyone’s time. Let it be seen how an omelette is made or how a washing machine is put on” . For this, he gives the example of her daughter: “At the age of five she divided the clothes perfectly to put washing machines, simply to put the clothes in.” “He is very dangerous: I already do it. With teenagers you have to show the consequences of their actions. Without being a Rottenmeier of life, you have to make them part of the house “, she concludes.
