3 steps to make your evening toy pickup routine easy

There you are again, kneeling on the floor, gathering up dozens (or hundreds) of tiny pieces.

Lego, blocks, duplo, cars, doll accessories – it doesn’t really matter what kind, does it? Just that once again, you were the one left to clean it all up.

Let’s turn this around.

Let’s get the kids picking up their own messes. Let them deal with hundreds of lego bits, dozens of doll outfits, or that huge pile of wooden blocks.

How to make this nirvana reality? Three steps.

What you’ll learn:
• A little labeling helps the kids set up a consistent system for toy pickup
• You’re going to need bins or open boxes – not lidded containers
• Pare down each collection – small sets go much faster in the cleanup process

New rule: They clean up their own messes!

Your job: stand around and keep an eye on the process. Keep little ones on task, watch out for anyone indiscriminately throwing toys in a box, and provide encouragement.

You may even hear them enforcing the limits on each other. (Don’t dump those blocks in here; we don’t want a huge mess to pick up!)

And that’s when you’ll know it finally sank in.

Your kids know the rules now. And you don’t ever have to be the one kneeling on the floor, surrounded by hundreds of toys, again.

You’ve got this!
Alyssa

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