How to get the kids to pick up after themselves, to NOT leave their toys scattered all over, our, houses, translated…
Since my daughter became a mother, she’d been absent in most of our family travels. I’d gone to visit her especially, and from afar, I’d heard the clicking sounds of the toy guns, those two young lads were engaging in a game of sheriff and bandits, deadlocking their mother. Getting into the front door, I was almost tripped by the building blocks. As my daughter saw, she’d smiled that awkward, and helpless smile, no matter how beautiful the house is decorated, the homes with children, are never kept, neatly, with the toys all over the places, too hard, to keep the living environment orderly, without clutters.
“It was just ten minutes ago since I picked them up, and now, the toys are, all over the floors again, I’d, kept repeating this cycle of picking up after them, and there’s still NOTHING I can do, to get my young sons to pick up their toys.” I’d already, been there, gotten used to it. The toys are the children’s first friends, not only do they accompany the children in coming of age, the toys are good tools to help children get socialized.
this, is what you’ll, get…photo from online
For children three to five, hard to reason with, especially how easily they’d lost interest in the toys, and, when they see a new toy when they go out, they’d started, not wanting to leave. My daughter had, spoiled her sons, and bought a ton of toys for them, the kids don’t know how to restrain themselves, and, in the end, it deadlocked my daughter in the trials of picking up after her own two young sons.
Scientific researches showed, that children from three to six years of age can already start getting trained in putting their toys up, in the daily routines, helping the kids understand that they need to pick up their toys is the rules, if they don’t, then, take away their toys as punishments, and naturally, this will help them get rid of that bad habit of, “leaving their toys wherever they’re done playing with them.”
My daughter decided to use this method, she’d recalled how once I’d confiscated her Barbie doll after she’d not put it up after playing, it’d made her upset for several days, and she had learned, to pick up after her own toys then. Toward the floor’s worth of mess of toys, it surely, wasn’t easy, to get the kids to pick them up on their own, and so, there are the harsh disciplinary methods, combined with the coaxing, persuasion methods used, and you can only, patiently, pick up the toys with your children together. “Let’s let the toys go home, okay?”, at first, trying having the children pick up a few smaller items, then, add on, and, as the kids picked up after themselves, don’t forget, to give them the praises too.
My daughter prepared the transparent storage boxes, with the young boys taking care of their separate storage units, then, teaching the kids to classify the toys. Sorting through things is a lesson, and you need a ton of practices on it, to make it a normal routine, and, getting into the habits of picking up after themselves, then, the kids will know, where to go to get the toys they want to play with, then, we wouldn’t be wasting all our times on picking up the toys, finding the toys we want to play with all day long.
illustration from UDN.com
With the coming of age of children, some of the toys are no longer fitting to their age or development, you can give them away, or, throw them away. Select the creativity toys, like the building blocks, the Play-Doh clays, or Lego too, that can help the children become more creative. The mobile toys such as skateboard, bicycles, roller skates roller blades, will help the children develop and improve their motor skills, having them play using these, can help them with their agility, activating their minds.
The clutters at home are, annoying sure, you need a place to keep every item, that way, things will become, more, orderly in your homes. After awhile, my daughter said, that she’d found, that her home is no longer, cluttered, and, having a cleared space to live in, that’s, pleasing, to everybody in the family.
And so, this, is how you can, teach your young children, to pick up after themselves, or, you can do it, a harsher method, when they don’t pick up after themselves, toss their toys away, and I guarantee, that after no more than three times, they will know, to pee, that after no more than three times, they will know, to pick up after themselves, because, they don’t want to lose their toys, but this should only be used, as a sort of a last resort, like after so many times of you, telling them, to pick up after themselves, and they still don’t, at first, you should, pick the toys up with them together, like this mother suggested to her daughter to do with her own young sons.
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