Keeping toys
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Mum’s strategy: Keep toys there, wait till someone trips over it, and then we’ll keep it back ourselves.
If we do not keep our toys back ourselves, and have to be forced to do it, it will bring across a sort of rebellious edge, or we would purposely not put our toys back, just to see the reaction of our parents and/or others. If we trip on our own toys, we would realise what a nuisance it is, and put it back ourselves, and remember next time as well… -
Hmm, may work for some, but for ds2, doesn't work at all.
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then that toy is probably not the most precious one for him, if the dumping strategy dont work.
or dont allow him to take 2nd toy or do other fave things unless first toy has been kept?
or put the toys in simple containers easy to keep? like those from daiso? sometimes those original packaging maybe diff to keep back nicely -
I did 2 things.
(1) I pretended to cry. Sob. Sob. Waaaaaaaah! And I hide my head in my pillow and say "I’m sad!". Then Little Boy would waddle up in Pampers and pat my knee and go put away all his toys.
(2) I put on a role play baby sister persona. I am the baby and he is the gor-gor. He hated being bossed around by adults and would say "no" to everything. But in my baby role play persona, I could boss him around like nobody’s business… except that I had to go around squeaking like a baby. Very inelegant for me but he was so young I couldn’t hit him.
(3) Even more powerful an effect could be had when I, in my baby sister persona looks hurt and wails loudly. He would run around looking quite panicked to find something to console me. It was so funny. He took the role play quite seriously.
You can create your own role play… something that appeals to your boy and gets him to imagine he is someone else and that putting toys back is part of that someone’s role. Bob the Builder has to throw away bricks? Thomas the Train needs to deliver parcels to each person stationed at the different toy boxes. -
The containers are very simple already leh...just Ikea boxes.
Yup, I have tried to disallow 2nd toy before first toy is kept. Itworks something.
Role play ha? I tried sometimes, sometime works sometimes dun. If use too often, the child will find it amusing leh... :lol:
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