Time and how long things take

How long should this actually take?

Time is harder to judge than most adults assume. Timers, tidy-up sessions, and realistic numbers for how long a job really is.

• The ten minute tidy up, done properly

  Tidy up songs and timers work, up to a point. How to run a ten minute tidy up, what ten minutes actually buys you, and why a visible timer is the point.

• Visual timers for kids, and how to use one for a tidy up

  What a visual timer is, why seeing time drain differs from reading a clock, the best kinds for kids, how to use one for a tidy up, and when a timer backfires.