Organization Tips for Teens

There are plenty of organizational tools for your teen; the trick is getting him to use them. Buy your teen bookshelves, file cabinets and plastic cubes. Plastic cubes are especially helpful because they can be stacked to maximize small spaces. Organizers should reflect your teen's style. Personalize them with posters, pictures and stickers. Install shelves, but let your teen paint them his favorite color. Don't overwhelm your teen. Break up the task of organizing over the week.

  1. Monday: Organize the Closet

    • Shoe organizers that hang on the back of a door or a closet rod will make it easier for your teen to find her shoes. Other closet organizers include special shelving for clothes. Allow your teen to paint the shelves her favorite color or decorate them with pictures of her friends. She can keep her knickknacks orderly in over-sized shoe boxes.

    Tuesday: Organize Under the Bed

    • The space under the bed is often where parents find broken toys, dirty socks and crinkled homework papers. Choose an under-the-bed organizer for your teen's room that includes compartments for his books. He can also store out-of-season clothes under his bed.

    Wednesday: Organize the Dresser

    • If your teen stuffs as many clothes as she can into her dresser, consider buying organizers that divide drawers into more manageable spaces. You can have small compartments for socks and some compartments for over-sized sweaters. Make sure you get your teen a clothes hamper so dirty clothes don't make their way into the dresser.

    Thursday: Organize the Desk

    • If your teen's desk has turned into a disaster area, get him organizers that include compartments for homework and reports, pens and pencils, and the odds and ends that somehow find themselves buried under the piles of stuff.

    Friday: Organize the Floor

    • If the floor is littered with so much stuff there is no place to walk, it's time to organize the floor. Place a hula hoop anywhere on the floor. Your teen is responsible for sorting only the area within the hoop. When they're done, move the hula hoop to a new section. Your teen won't see the project as a doomed task if they focus on one section at a time.

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