On training your own young, to pick up AFTER themselves, so you don’t need to follow behind them to pick up the toys and things that your children dropped all over the places, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Easier to buy the toys, but, hard to pick them all up and put them all, away.”, with a house full of toys everywhere, it’s hard, not to, get angered. The head of the parent-child school of Hsin-Yi Foundation, Lee pointed out, that the younger parents established the rules for their children in toys, it helps the children be more disciplined, to take putting up their toys as matter-of-fact. She’d offered some methods, so the kids can be taught to, pick up after themselves, “without any paints”, to collect up their toys and put them all away after play. The child occupational therapist, Yu said, being on the same page with the rules is vital, if the kids don’t pick up after themselves, and a parent picks up the toys for the children, then, it would be a blockage in teaching the children to pick up after themselves.
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First, the commands need to be, clear. Lee said, teaching the meaning of “putting your toys away” to the children is vital, how are the toys picked up, into the chests, inside the drawers, or, classified separately, you need to tell it clearly to the child.
Then, the warning beforehand is also important. Lee told, that the child needed to be prepared before the toys are to be, put away. Don’t be pressed on time to do it, giving your children ten to fifteen minutes to pick up. You can set the clean up time before play begin, use a timer, to let your child know, how long s/he is able to play, and as the timer goes off, then, the child shall, start picking up after her/himself.
Third, using encouragements, and guide. For younger children, you can tell them, “I need the help of your tiny hands”. Lee said, as the younger children hear the word “help”, they would be, more than willing to do it. After the toys are collected up, you must give praises to them.
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Fourth, play a game of collecting up the toys, for children above three, they loved being challenges, to have the kids send the toys home. A game of who finds the most toys the quickest, and delivers them home fastest. Lee said, get into a discussion with your young on “where the toys live”, to help them start to learn to classify their toys.
Yu said, that for children under ages three or four, you can help them start up with the classifications, by color, by shape, or by types, after you’d set that up, then, have them put their toys up, it would be much easier. Give clear commands like, “pick up the cars first, then the blocks. When needed, with the adults assisting the children, helping the children put up the toys, you put two away, and I’ll put one away. But do remember, NEVER pick up ALL your children’s toys.
Most importantly, is the companionship of the adults in the process. Lee stated, that helping your children put up their toys will make the toy pickup process more efficient. The parents should NOT be on their cells by the side, and only used their mouths to tell the children to go pick up the toys quickly. Yu said, if the mother demanded that the child picks up the toys and the child doesn’t, and another member of the family steps out and do it, it would become, a block in educating the young. The adults need to communicate first, that way, this can be done quickly, efficiently, without any troubles.
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And so, who’d thought, that teaching a kid to put up the toys is something so hard? The parents MUST be on the same page on it, meaning, that if one of you is lenient on the measure, and the other, too strict, guess WHO your kid’s going to go over to when the toys are played and the child doesn’t want to pick it up after her/himself?
The communication on how the two of you will work together, to help that kid establish the good habit of picking up her/his own toys after play before you go into the room where your child is playing on the toys is important here!
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