What are the special challenges of organizing an older child's room?

What are the special challenges of organizing an older child's room?

Mary Astadourian (Professional Organizer) gives expert video advice on: What are the special challenges of organizing an older child's room?; How can I develop organizational systems that changes with my older child's needs?; How can I create spaces in my older child's room for the room's different purposes? and more...

I think the biggest challenge of organizing an older child's room is to take into account all the technology. You know, the iPod, the computer, if you allow the child to have gaming units in their room, there's just a lot of cords and units and things to consider. It's about figuring out where all that goes and how to house all the components for all of that, printers and scanners and everything. So older children's rooms are no longer just rooms where they have their clothes or their music or anything, there's just so many other things to think about.