Is your house a mess.....

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firsttimemom

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with toys? even how often my helper and I clean up and arrange the toys, our house the whole day is cluttered with toys everywhere. I try to organize and put everything in a presentable korean chest, telling my 3 yrs old to just bring out toys that he wants, but still the same, he will put out all the trains, railroad, and cars in the sofa the whole day, and nobody can touch that.

My crawling baby throws balls and mess it up too.

I can't let them play in their room as it's small. Oh, the window in their room has stickers all over.

I visited my friend's house who has a toddler daughter and she simply plays with a doll and kitchen stuff in one corner.

I'm just wondering if it's just us....
 
i have a large-ish house. my kids have a huge (300') bedroom that they dont' play in... they also have a "playroom" that is abotu 120'.... they don't play in that either (most of the time). they prefer to be out in the living room, so our living area is usually cluttered with toys. BUT we dont' clean up after the kids. THEY do it. i ask them 3 or 4 times, then i go get a big rubbish bag. they know that if they don't clean it up, all of it will go intot he rubbish! once they see that bag, it's amazing how fast they can clean up! LOL!
 
Nope our house isn't a mess, I am teaching my daughter to play with 1 toy at a time, put that away at its place and then pick up another one. Thats what they teach her at school too. She doesn't always comply so I ask her to help me or the DH tidy up which she happily does. She plays only in the living room in her corner (Where her desk and toys are). Also I try to keep the toys current to her interest, storing the rest away for her little baby brother.
 
we started with that approach as well... it just kind of got away from us a little.

please don't get me wrong, the ONLY day the kids go nuts with toys all over the place is sundays... daddy lets mummy sleep in, but couldn't be bothered asking the kids to tidy up... he leaves that up to mummy!
 
Enjoy your messy house..... one day your children will not be there and you will miss it....
 
Daddy lets mommy sleep in? geeeeeez, guess I married the wrong dude:<

My son is still young, just over a year, so of course he doesn`t get the whole clean up after yourself thing. On the days when he is actually interested in playing with his toys (he usually prefers to locate all the dangerous places and activities in the apartment and devote himself to making me crazy), he will have them strewn all over within minutes. I don`t care and will clean them up during his naptimes (but not always) and sometimes `together` at the end of the day. Otherwise I do it after he goes to bed, walking around collecting bits and pieces, with my aching back.
 
yep, pretty much every sunday! lol! there are times that i have gotten out of bed just in time to make lunch!!!
 
My house is always a mess, unless I've got visitors coming, in which case it's semi-tidy (but only semi ;) )
 
Same here - two kids, total mess - except for 15 mins in the morning after we've had a tidy up, post afternoon nap and after the kids go to bed.

Unless people are coming and then we have a semi-tidy.

The 2.5 year old understands 'tidy up', but the one year old doesn't. I am not too worried about, I just ensure there are nice toy bins around if we need to throw everything in in a hurry!

Oddly, the house seems much more tidy when my husband is away...
 
Same here, the playroom is in the living room, with train rails and boxes full of toys... but I find some cars and some book all over the place, so I just tidy up at the end of the day !
 
I'm the opposite, when me and my daughter are away, hubby cleans the house so good ;) I think it's me and her who are the messy ones!! Hubby loves the place spic and span ;)
 
Ours is messy too ( we have far too many toys) and we also use the same threat of everything that is not in place goes in the dust bin. It works most times
 
I have a 1.5 yr old..and yeah--living room is always a MESS. I clean up only twice a day though..when she sleeps! hubby wont lift a finger-he'll tip toe over the toys but wont pick em up. darling daughter doesnt get the message of 'tidy up' :(( have to start using the rubbish bag threat --thanks Cara for the nice tip!!
 
Our 14 month old young lady enjoys making the house a mess too and the moment I clean up, she takes it as a challenge to mess it up more better. True that on weekends when dad is here, the house is more messier!!!!!
I have decided to only clean up only twice a day, before lunch and before bed, sort of in a game style, since she is starting to understanding simple instructions such as "please put this here." and she wants to hear the clapping and "hurraaaaay!!!" from me, she will do it until she gets bored. After that, I have my helper feed her while she watches me continue putting back things. Fingers crossed that this becomes a habit but if not, I think I will apply the garbage bag method mentioned when she gets older!!!
 
With a helper, it's sometimes hard to get the children to get into the habit of tidying up after themselves. The helper feels obliged to do it or she just wants to get the job done. I've told my one to let my son do it all himself but I still see her doing most of it. I bet my son doesn't lift a finger when I'm not around. My strategy now is to say that I'll throw out the toys he doesn't put away and that seems to work, although rather reluctantly.
 
i also have a song that i use at playgroup. "it's time to clean up"

my kids sing it as they clean up (or make me sing it).
 
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