Parenting Preschoolers (3-5) Support Group
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of preschoolers (3 to 5 year olds). The major areas of child development include: physical development, perception and sensory development, communication and language development, cognitive development, emotional development and social development. Join to share your stories and get advice.
If my 3 year old or my 5 year old had pulled all the toys out and then refused to tidy them all away, I would confiscate all the toys and advise them that they would now have to work very hard indeed to earn them all back again.
Have you tried using a reward chart?
What I did with my son was to make a routine of supper, pick up toys, bath, tv, bed. I illustrated this schedule and posted it in his room. If he finished quickly he had time to watch tv before bed, if not he didn't. We have family clean up time and we are all cleaning.
Our current sticker chart is for doing things the first time he is asked and not saying "I can't". After 40 stickers (he can earn multiple /day) he gets a toy he has picked out. Previous sticker charts were for potty and drinking milk.
I used the reward chart with potty training and she got candy small things like m&ms but don't want to use candy as she has teeth problems now. She loves sugarfree gum so maybe use that as reward.
The first one went to a site called HIP design or something..
Cool site Hthomas98!