Let me share with you my situation. I don't pack up toys for my kids very much. Come and see our home toys.
The coffee table became the baby's workbench, and let him clean it up once in a while.
Some toys that are easy to drop parts must be packed up by the child.
This is a box of magnet piece blocks. It must be packed after playing. Golf toys, put in the corner.
The xylophone is placed under the coffee table and taken out only when playing. Inside the box are cards. It's all put away by the baby himself.
Four boxes of engineering blocks, as well as badminton rackets.
There are also three boxes of small toys under the shelves, balls, blocks and puzzles, and books on the shelves.
The book is a bit of a mess
The small pyramid blocks that are easy to drop parts are placed on a high place by me, and when he wants to play, he must first clean up the coffee table.
Toys as children, occasionally played with, placed in fixed corners.
Snowflakes and paintbrushes that are easy to sprinkle all over the ground are boxed and placed high. When playing with paintbrushes, adults are present so as not to paint the walls. If you want to play snowflakes, you must clean up the coffee table and play on the coffee table to facilitate cleaning.
01 Asked him to pack up his toys since he was a child
In general, babies are almost ten months old and especially love to throw things. At this time, if you want to stop him from throwing, you will throw it even harder. It's almost impossible to get him to pack up his toys. So before he was a year and a half old, I put his toy in the playbar and let him play with it. I'm too lazy to pack up. Clean up once in a while.
I have a plastic game bar and a wooden game bar. It is recommended to buy wood, that is, it is more expensive.
When he could understand, I would tell him to put the toy back in place and know how to put it back. Basically, it needs to be done by an adult before he will follow suit.
After the age of 2, the child must pack up the toys by himself
I have a lot of toys at home. Sometimes I'm busy, and I go to the living room to see that the room is full of toys, all over the floor. I would pick up the toys on the floor. Try to instruct him to sort the toys and put them away.
It is recommended to put the toy in a fixed position, on the one hand, it is convenient for the child to find the toy, on the other hand, it is convenient for him to know how to pack the toy and put it away.
03 What if the child just doesn't pack up the toys
First of all, the requirements are not too high. After all, it is a baby, the cultivation is a neat habit, as long as the toys are not spilled on the ground, on the sofa, affecting everyone's life is almost the same. It doesn't take much effort to get it done. Otherwise, the child will not want to do it when he looks at it and sorts it out so troublesomely.
If he doesn't do anything at all, reminding him that if he doesn't clean up, the toy is easy to lose, and next time it may be gone. Then quietly hide a few of his favorite toys. After a while, he could not find it, and took the opportunity to educate him. It took him a long time to find the toy.
Sometimes my son asks me if I've seen one of his toys. I said I didn't see it, you didn't pack it up, so it was easy to disappear.
The most extreme thing to do is to tell him that if the toys on the ground are not packed, his mother will sweep the floor later, and then sweep the garbage can together. At first he didn't believe it. I immediately swept a toy in the trash in front of him. Later, all the toys he basically dropped on the ground would be put away.
Children are better off not using a threatening method, and I have only used this last killer weapon once.
04 Clean up useless toys regularly
Occasionally, I focus on cleaning up toys or broken toys that my baby no longer plays with. I'll resell some toys that haven't been damaged yet. He loves toys. Many items are relatively new when they are resold. He was happy to resell his unwanted toys. He said that when he sold them, he could buy new toys.
Thanks for reading my parenting experience! Feel free to share and discuss!