Make
Clean Up Your Room
Mean Something!

A children's book that can help with "Clean up your room!"

Children don't like cleaning up after themselves. Playing is fun. Picking up isn't.

Cure Messiness? read an excerpt

Remember, it's parents who got their kids used to being cleaned up after! You wiped their faces and cleaned their diapers. It's parents then who have to figure out how to convey the message, "Those times are past. Now go clean up your room."

My children's behavior book, How Cocoona Learned to Clean Even Better Than Her Parents, is a form of bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is the use of children's books to address problem behaviors.

F R E E ...for a very limited time Before I begin selling my child behavior books, I'm looking for feedback on them. Here's the deal... I want you to try these books with your children. But I need you to agree in advance to write me about your experience or email me a picture that your child drew for the book. I may use your letter or child's picture on the site, but I will only post it with your first name and your state, province or country. Do we have a deal? Read up, then click to the book your child could benefit from!

Cocoona is the story of a little girl who just can't be bothered to clean up her room...or anything else. Nothing that Mom or Dad says or does helps in the slightest. That is, until Mom and Dad decide to become slobs too. Cocoona can't handle the chaos that results! She learns what it's like to have to live with someone else's mess.

Cocoona's story is fun with a message, but I've done something else to make sure the message really hits home.

The behavior book has no pictures because it's meant for your child to illustrate. Why?

So that every time your child adds an illustration to the book, the book's message is reinforced. Repetition is key to learning.

For a limited time, this children's book about messiness is FREE

Before I begin selling my children's behavior books, I'm looking for feedback on them. Here's the deal...

I want you to try this book about picking up after yourself with your child. But I need you to agree in advance to either write me about your experience or email me a picture that your child draws for the book.

I may use your letter or your child's drawing on the site, but I will only post it with your first name and your state, province or country.

The book is in PDF form (though if you prefer you can open a regular webpage and copy the text into a word processing program). You simply print it out on separate pages for reading and illustrating.

Do we have a deal? (No, I want to read an excerpt of the Clean Up Your Room book first.) If so, please fill out the form below. You'll be taken to a password protected page with the simple instructions right away.

I can't wait to hear how it goes for you!

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