Toy organization

womancake · April 2013

Anyone wanna help me out? I'm trying to figure out if this is just normal toddler stuff, or if my kid just lives for chaos. I've tried all kinds of different ways to keep V's toys organized...I've pared down, rotated, kept it simple. I've tried boxes, buckets, baskets, bins, and shelves. And no matter what I do, she wakes up in the morning and just immediately scatters the toys everywhere. Doesn't really play with them...just pulls everything off the shelves and throws it all over the house. To her credit, she helps us put toys away at night, and enjoys doing so. I have tried (inconsistently) to teach her to put one toy away before she gets another one out, but it was honestly so exhausting that I just gave up. Especially being first trimester pregnant, it was just easier to let her destroy the house and do one big clean up at bedtime.

I see all these ideas on Pinterest about keeping toys organized and orderly...I see pictures of toddlers sitting next to shelves lined with books, and they're not ripping all the books off the shelves. Are these people trolling us? Or can toddlers really be like that and it's just my kid? I don't feel like I have unrealistic expectations. I don't expect to have a perfectly neat house or kid. It's just getting overwhelming to constantly have little pieces of things all.over. the floor, and I want to teach her good habits.

So what say you? Is it a lost cause and I just need to get over it and accept it? Or do you have any suggestions on keeping your house from becoming total chaos?

hypotheticalme · April 2013

I saw your title and just laughed

N sounds exactly the same- putting toys away is a fun game but then he immediately dumps them back out. And he'll say "uh oh!" right before dumping toys on the floor. Our house is total chaos until he goes to bed. But

womancake · April 2013

Yeah, we recently pared down a ton as far as what we have out at a given time. I don't think we'd mind if she were actually playing with the stuff. It's just frustrating to wonder why we have all this stuff that just ends up thrown on the floo

Ms5586 · April 2013

It's a lost cause in our home, but we're ok with it. We have a place for everything to go at the end of the day, and that's what's important to me. He rips every book off of his shelf, every dvd, and empties the bins. I look at it as a c

womancake · April 2013

Okay, so we're agreed that there's a mass conspiracy on the part of all the bloggers on Pinterest to make us believe that there are perfectly behaved children out there and that we're just failing as moms, right? <img src="https://community.thebump.c

Tulips114 · April 2013

I'm sure there are some kids out there like the ones in the pictures, but I would say your kid is normal and those are the exception. L's favorite thing is pulling books off of shelves!

We have a toy rotation and it really helps her stay in

Yasiris1105 · April 2013

Matt does the SAME thing. I keep part of his toys in a bin in his room. He spend most of the time in our family room where I have another bin with toys and his ball pit. I put a gate so he doesn't make a mess in the rest of the house but still he throws h

memali26 · April 2013

When DD1 was under a year, I had the toys so beautifully organized. Everything was in labeled bins, put away in it's proper place in cute little bins.

And then she got mobile. And then DD2 was born. And now every.single.surface of my house is con

ldcoffel · April 2013

I have a four year old who still dumps. She is usually looking for something specific and dumps the whole bin out and then leaves it to go back to her play.

I try really hard to keep things organized. I have a people box, animal box, car box.

Pips09 · April 2013

My kid is the same. It all gets scattered about, whether she is playing with it or not.

casey820 · April 2013

Well... I can say that my little monster is exactly the same way. I have bins and baskets and have tried it all. My house is just toys EVERYWHERE. Emily will scatter and throw them all over the place. She helps put them away but then proceeds to rip

missbrightside10 · April 2013

My house looks great during naptime and after he goes to bed lol! I am redoing his toy rotation so he has no more than 10 toys and 10 books out at one time. I'm even rotating the larger items. I just feel like he plays better and more purposeful when h

prism207 · April 2013

Totally and completely normal. This is the destructive age, they aren't so big on real play yet...It is much more fun to knock the tower over than to build it, right?

The pinterest stuff? Probably a few kids are less messy with

solsburyhill · April 2013

We have a toy room, we have toys in the living room, and we've got toys in the basement rec room. Not to mention all the books and toys in Augie's bedroom. If he's awake and home all 4 rooms a covered in toys. I also have some in the

JKGymnast · April 2013

If it makes you feel better, my sister has 3 kids and is still searching for a solution to this very problem!!!!

We bought wooden chest like toy boxes and its working for now.

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