Cleaning up

Re: Cleaning up

• quietlyexpecting member

  February 2013

  I agree with PP.  I sing the clean up song and have been for a couple months.  She is 16 months now.  At first she had no idea what was going on and would just watch me.  Now when she hears it she usually picks something to start putting away.  I have been asking her to put things away since she turned a year and eventually she started catching on.  I tell her specific things like put your blocks in the bin or throw that kleenex away.  She loves to do things like throw away things too so I have to be careful of where my garbage cans are as she's thrown away a couple things here and there too.  8-)  GL  She'll get the hang of it.  

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• hway24 member

  February 2013

  I was just wondering about this too. I've been trying to get my DS to help clean up for the past couple of months, but have gotten nowhere, so I just figured he was still too young, but maybe it's just him. His favorite game is to take everything out of the bin that I just put in. I try and try to get him to put something away, if he finally puts something in the bin, he immediately takes it out again

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• ladybugpjb member

  February 2013

  It takes a lot of patience - they do dump it back out. I still do 90% of the pick-up if we're picking up his room, but with other stuff, he'll help better. Like putting books back on the shelf - that's a really easy one to start with. If she doesn't catch on to actually cleaning up, ask her to hand things to you. I have more success with asking him to hand me a particular book or toy. Also, I had better luck at the beginning with the larger toys that just go in the plastic bin - I don't know why, but he caught on to putting things away in there before he caught on to putting the little toys in the bins.

  Even though it's hard to get him to clean his room, he knows what it means to "put something back" or "put something away." He often grabs things at the store, and I can tell him to put it back and he USUALLY does.

  

  

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• blu-eyedwife member

  February 2013

  quietlyexpecting:

  I agree with PP.  I sing the clean up song and have been for a couple months.  She is 16 months now.  At first she had no idea what was going on and would just watch me.  Now when she hears it she usually picks something to start putting away.  I have been asking her to put things away since she turned a year and eventually she started catching on.  I tell her specific things like put your blocks in the bin or throw that kleenex away.  She loves to do things like throw away things too so I have to be careful of where my garbage cans are as she's thrown away a couple things here and there too.  8-)  GL  She'll get the hang of it.  

  This is us too - at daycare they start having the kids pick up after themselves at 18 months, but introduce the concept probably around 14ish?  They sing the cleanup song and ask the kids to help as they put things away.  So we started doing it at home too.  Sometimes he's fantastic at helping (like yesterday morning when I asked him to throw the chicken broth container in the garbage) and other times he just watches us clean up.  We also "clean up" one toy before moving to the next, so there's lots of repetition.
  

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