How does Hilary Erickson's approach to organizing kids' rooms tackle common challenges?

Understanding Kids' Perspective: Hilary acknowledges that kids often want to keep items that seem irrational to adults but are important to them. She emphasizes understanding and respecting their perspective.

Creating Personal Space: Even in small rooms, Hilary believes in creating personal space for each child. This helps them feel a sense of ownership and responsibility.

The Special Drawer: Hilary suggests having a 'special drawer' for items that kids want to keep but don't have a specific place for. This drawer can be cleaned out periodically, teaching kids to prioritize and decide what's important to them.

Making Organization Easy: Hilary recommends making the path to organization as easy as possible. This could mean bringing a trash can close by during clean-up or creating simple systems that kids can follow.

Teaching Kids to Organize: Hilary believes in teaching kids how to organize rather than doing it for them. She suggests making the process fun and doing it together with them.

Using Affordable Organizing Tools: Hilary often uses items from Goodwill for organizing, demonstrating that organization doesn't have to be expensive.