A shared kids’ room can be challenging to get organized. The key is to divide and conquer. It is best to work with each child separately. Any jointly owned possessions can be dealt with after the majority of the sorting and editing is done. Note the other child cannot be in the room! Their comments, …
When you’re organizing a playroom you want to consider how your kids play. What are they interested in? How well do they clean up? Are they currently drawn to a certain type of toy? Do they combine lots of different kinds of toys when they play? Or do they stick to one category of toy …
Kids end up accumulating so many toys. And every so often it’s good to go through and edit out the outside toys that are being played with from the ones that aren’t. Especially with Christmas right around the corner. First, we gathered all the toys on the back porch and sorted them into categories. We …
Before Christmas presents invade your house next week, take some time with your kids and clear out some of the old toys. Go through and see which toys they don’t play with anymore. Give a bag of donations to “Santa” so he can take them, and give them to other kids who will love them. …
It’s because they can’t see or find what they want when it’s all piled up. So they dump everything and spread it out to make it easier to find what they want. This, of course, makes a huge mess and is frustrating for other members of the family. If you’re having this problem every day …