One organizing change I made was to move our dishes to a lower cupboard where our girls can reach without a stool or a chair. This is for two reasons: 1) The girls can unload 90% of the dishwasher contents into their proper home instead of making stacks on the counter top with most of the dishes. 2) The girls can set the table independently. The sacrifice I am making, of course, is to bend down low every time I need a dish, but it's an easy enough change to make and worth the benefit of better training my daughters.
Here's how the new cupboards look:
Up High
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Katie
Oh, and she assures me that our one-year old trouble maker can't get past the toddler-proof lock on the cupboard. I hope it's true!
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