Dumping/Cleaning up

Reilly626 · May 2014

Can and do your toddlers clean up? Mine don't get it yet. My son likes to put things where they belong but his twin sister will just dump them again and they both laugh. A coworker was shocked they don't pick up yet but they don't get it. Also, do your kids like dumping toys out and moving on to the next bin? After they go down we pick it all up but my husband wants me to take the little stuff away (like bins if Little people, cars, puzzles) is their a trick to teaching them?

ks3pink · May 2014

My boys love to dump out AND pick up. They like everything in its place and they love up help. I do think a lot of it has to do with personality however because my daughter has never cleaned up and still doesn't! Funny thing with her is that she will clean up at school, other people's homes, etc but not at our home. Kids be crazy!

twinkletoes3126 · May 2014

My son likes to dump toys and he also enjoys cleaning them up, but there are times he's not interested. I just try to make it fun by singing the clean up song and clapping when he does a good job.

vvvvvfee · May 2014

we try to get DS to help, but he's definitely more interested in dumping than in cleaning up. he also likes to re-dump after everything is put away. i think it's pretty typical behavior for this age. he does help with other cleaning-up tasks (like cleaning up water that he spilled), i think he just gets bored with the length of time it takes to pick up all his lego duplos or whatever.

rjacques · May 2014

DS loves to dump stuff out of his bins, especially his blocks. He is pretty OCD about putting stuff away as in it HAS to be in the same spot as before. If it is even a little bit off he has to go and fix it before moving on. I hope his OCD tendencies don't last!

Toni79 · May 2014

DD loves to dump out. Like you said, she'll dump things out and then move onto the next toy and dump that out too! Sometimes our living room is a hot mess. But at the same time she also likes to help clean up. She usually doesn't initiate it herself though. I have to say we're cleaning up, sing the clean up song, and help her clean up. Some days she'd good about it, other days she gets distracted and starts getting out more toys while we're cleaning up, and other days I am just too hurried to get her fed, bathed, and to bed, that I clean up after she's in bed.

She also likes to imitate anything we're cleaning ... so if I'm wiping off her high chair, floor, wall, etc.she wants to wipe it off too.

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