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Simplifying Your Space

I recently read an article in Montessori Parent about the importance of a simple environment.  Is your house anything like mine?  When I walk in the door, I'm bombarded with scattered shoes, jackets half-dangling from hooks, and papers everywhere.  The paper!  How do we accumulate so many pieces of paper?  I try and pick up on the weekend, but it feels like the clutter just comes back ten-fold the second the week starts again.  And it feels stressful, doesn't it?  Sure, there is a rational part of my brain, hiding way in the back, drowned out by several other more pressing matters, that says "if you clean up, you will feel better."  But it's easy to ignore.  And it's especially easy to remain selfish about this stress.  Have you ever really thought about how it might also be causing the same feeling in your children when their areas are messy? We as adults are taught to seek out calm spaces to help us rest and recharge.  When you think of a calm space, you