It's a norm for parents skip cooking and eat outside. Either for normal dinner/lunch/breakfast time or any special occasion like celebrating birthday etc. It can be also because we are tired, just wanna try something new etc.
For parents with babies, we can't eat in a calm situation or even trying to keep it clean. Doctors encouraged us to let the baby feed themselves either using hands or fork and spoon to increase their cognitive abilities or senses.
Adam eat at restaurant - Food is everywhere - out from the plate, on table etc.
Tadaaa~... Food will be on the floor too.
It's ok to have the tables, chairs or floors messy with the foods but how do you wanna clean that wherever you went for eating?
1. Teach them on basic cleaning.
Don't forget to teach them to clean too. Babies as early as 12m++ learn to copy what adult is doing. We can just show good example, definitely they will follow.
Even though it's only basic cleaning or kids only can contribute to small types of cleaning, remember that what we teach them now and continuously, will help them to grow to be a better person who knows and diligently being helpful in doing housework.
This will create a society that always put clean as priority wherever they go. Their future wife or husband will thank us later for putting a very good effort in raising them.
Adam trying to clean the table.
Putting them for cleaning time doesn't mean we are pressuring them but parent must remember! don't putt them into an excessive housework. That should be our job. Be smart and slowly asking them to do thing one by one.
2. Carry tiny size broom with you with extra wet tissue and tissues.
The tiny cleaning item we brought everywhere.
The tiny broom is about our palm size and comfortable to bring it anywhere. Use that broom to swipe the solid dirt, wet tissue is to swipe the dirts stain and then lastly use tissues.
The tissue we use - easily brought anywhere to be used at anytime.
The wet tissue we used. This one we get for free each time we bought tissues.
It will just take a few minutes to get it done. Usually the waitress always said to us "please don't do it", "we're gonna do it ourselves", "it's our job" etc.
But we insist to do it.
In case if we don't have anyone else with us, we and just my baby, we just apologize and the restaurant workers will do it for us.
This method we practiced for quite awhile now. It helps to raise awareness on cleaning for ourselves too and become example to other people. :)
As we are all being a normal parents, don't feel that guilty or bad for messing up people's places or restaurant. But do take positive action to get rid of that feelings.
We can put better effort in order to create better environment.
All above writing is based on my personal opinion and only applied to whoever find it suitable to them because all babies and parents are different in character, situation etc. Lastly, thank you for reading my blog. ^_^
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