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While Your College Student is Away

Posted by: Amber Kostelny-Cussen on Monday, November 7, 2011

Four Options for Your Student’s RoomYou may be an empty nester or a semi empty nester. In either scenario, there’s a bedroom that is empty and void of your highschool student. He or she is now at college and their room sits open and unused. It’s tempting to use this space for our own personal use, isn’t it? Here are some opt...

Managing Family Member’s Mail

Posted by: Amber Kostelny-Cussen on Friday, October 7, 2011

How to Help Teens and College Students Organize Their Mail Whether you have teens, college age kids, or adult children, you must see more and more mail arriving for them. Whether they’re test scores, credit card applications or bank statements, it’s at these ages mail starts to flood in. What do you as a parent do with their mail? Who ...

Routines Promote Organization

Posted by: Amber Kostelny-Cussen on Friday, February 4, 2011

Teaching Organization to Kids through Basic RoutinesRoutines are a great way to get kids to naturally help around the house and keep their rooms cleans. If organization is worked into their daily routines, they really don’t even notice. They view it as part of what they should do on a regular basis and usually don’t question it.&n...

Organizing A Backpack

Posted by: Amber Kostelny-Cussen on Monday, December 20, 2010

How to Keep you Child’s Backpack Organized Organizing a backpack and keeping　it neat and tidy　is not much different from organizing something else in your home or office. Similar principles apply. Here are my top tips! (and if you’ve got some to share- please comment! We’d love to hear them.)　1. Use pouches th...

Organizing Your Teen

Posted by: Amber Kostelny-Cussen on Monday, April 12, 2010

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