Trying to be the best is the hardest thing in my life.

Assalamualaikum...
Here I am again. Pondering about my life as I go. Where will I end up. When will it be the end of me. May Allah grant me and all of us Jannah in the herrafter. But to say it seem to be so easy. Do we really work for it? Jannah. To earn Jannah. Our reward in the hereafter. Our faith in Allah and Prophet Muhammad pbuh is tested in this world. I'm not talking about big things. Let us start with small things.

When I am writing, please do not judge me. All that I have written here is mostly about me and how I look at this world. For instant, I am trying to teach my kids to be clean. Is seems easy but oh my it is so hard. It is all my fault. I like to teach them to be clean while myself is a bit chaotic. I am working during shift hours and sometimes my errands are done while they are at school or while they are sleeping. So, they don't always see me doing chores. Picking them up and sending them to school hardly seem hard for them, I guess. They can't imagine how tiring it is to be sending and picking up 4 kids to school everyday, each with a different schedule. Urrghhh...

Back to my small family, a few tips I like to remind myself when cleaning a small apartment are :

1) Minimise the furniture in the apartment. So that there will be more room for us humans.

2) Do not collect garbage. What I mean here is that boxes or plastic bags that come with whatever we bought must immediately be thrown out. They may look useful or pretty when we first lay eyes on it but it will only be a couple of hours that it will turn into junk and mess up your place.

3) Have minimal plates and cutleries in the kitchen so that when it is used, your kids will have no choice but to clean it because if they don't during the next mealtime they won't have any clean ones.

4) Have a different kid do a different chore and they can swap around at the end of the week.

5) Label their workstations and shelves. It gives them a sense of proudness when they each keep trying to keep their own part by being the most neat or creative.

6) Keep a schedule for each kid dividing time for school, chores, homework and playtime.

Remember that we want to keep our home clean, our kids well disciplined and our aim to Jannah be a reality. We are not trying to bully our kids or express hatred towards them. We want them to be responsible adults who are able to take care of themselves when they have grown or when we have passed.

May this bring us good results and help us bring up our sons and daughters to be good adults. InsyaAllah.

Wassalamm...