Summer is the perfect time to get children involved in cleaning and caring for your home! Including your children in household chores such as cleaning supports their physical, mental, and moral development. Montessori educator and author Paula Lillard Preschlack shares three simple steps to help families get started: setting up the home environment with child-sized tools, deliberate modeling, and letting go of perfection. Investing this effort in the early years builds independence, care for the environment, and lasting habits that pay off well into adulthood.