most of the first floor of our house (living room, breakfast area, kitchen, dining area, and entryway) has hardwood floors. Before we just used to sweep stuff up and clean up the very occasional spill with a rag or whatever. But now that DS has been eating solids 4x a day and is throwing food etc the floor in the kitchen area has been getting pretty dirty. Also, our hardwood floors are handscraped so it's a lot harder to clean and get stuff out...simply sweeping doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
so i am just wondering, what is the best way to clean hardwood floors? some sites say to use a mop and soap and water, but then others say using water will mess up hardwood floors. so is a steam cleaner the best? i want to use something as natural as possible as my son is crawling/walking around these floors a lot.