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Anesha (1014.9 days ago)
By singing the `Clean up clean up everybody clean up` song she learned at Day Care. Its really catchy and kids love it. They understand it is time to clean when you begin singing it. Sometimes she initiates the song without my help.

pc (1014.9 days ago)
If he doesn`t pick up after himself, he can`t do the next thing he wants to do until it`s clean. No eating, playing, tv, until it`s clean. If he (3 too) still wont obey he sits in timeout until he`s ready to clean.

harimaudahan (1015 days ago)
Whenever my daughter drags a toy from her room and is done playing with it I tell her to put it in her room, she`s really good at listening to that. She`ll just set it on the floor (she`s only 2) but in the evenings right before bed time is cleanup time. I`ll have her put her stuffed animals away..or her books, while I get the other things, but it makes it a little easier on her to have the one job instead of having to remember where everything goes. As she gets older she`ll play a bigger part of course.

Lookalike (1015 days ago)
When I ran the toddler room at the daycare we would have them choose a few toy bins to take out and play with (just one at a time was not beneficial for their development) and then if they wanted something else out they had to put away one of the bins (each bin was a category of stuff like toy cars in one, stackable blocks in another, a train set in another one, etc.) At the end of the day we had circle time where we would play a song/game like hokey pokey or sing bible songs (it was a church daycare) and so to play we had to clean up the common area. I know this is a really important thing that a lot of parents neglect. Now I teach high school math and none of these kids know how to clean up after themselves because they are so used to mommy comming in after them and cleaning up for them, or everything just being a mess anyway.

oliviad27 (1015.4 days ago)
Make a game out of it somehow, my mom did that with my brother and me. And also rewards...that always works lol

JMendez (1015.4 days ago)
Thanks to everyone who left helpful comments. It`s much appreciated. =)

hannahe (1015.4 days ago)
i agree its not so much what you choose but the consistancy with which you enforce it...my son is terrible at picking up after himself and i am much better about it with my daughter at an earlier age hoping to start her off earlier so i dont have the same problem. we;ll see:)

gr8scottswife (1015.5 days ago)
Jendez, whatever you settle on. . . I can see that the main issue is not so much as what you are doing, but consistency with what you decide on. The first thing is (1) What do you feel comfortable doing? and the second thing is (2) Will you be consistent with applying the method? When you answer these you will get your child to do what you want her to do. Comfortableness and consistency are keys.

california-mom (1015.5 days ago)
I ahve a 3.5 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. They both know they cannot leave their toys anywhere in the house and they cannot leave their room before cleaning it. Start young!

california-mom (1015.5 days ago)
I ahve a 3.5 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. They both know they cannot leave their toys anywhere in the house and they cannot leave their room before cleaning it. Start young!

JMendez (1015.5 days ago)
I`m hoping the removal of her things is a last resort sort of thing, although sadly I can see that maybe happening here soon in the future.

Kylaleigh - Yes I have offered rewards and treats for her for cleaning. Candies, stickers, a trip to the park.....but even that doesn`t work =( Who knew something like this could be so difficult.

kylaleigh (1015.5 days ago)
do you give her a treat if she picks up just a couple things?? I started in slow steps.. first I sing.. lol `clean up the house, everybody clean up the house` and then I offer m&M`s for cooperation LOL it works about 90 percent of the time with my 3 year old Brayden.

nmck (1015.5 days ago)
What about removing everything from her room and only allowing one or two toys? When my now teenaged sisters were little, they were slobs!! My mom kept all of their clothes in baskets in the laundry room (folded of course) and they had only a couple of stuffed animals in their room. It took us 2 minutes to clean up their room. As she gets older and can reason, she can have more things in her room if she cleans up when she is done.

JMendez (1015.5 days ago)
Oh and I`ve tried taking her toys and things away, putting them in time out, threatening to throw them away, she does not care.

JMendez (1015.5 days ago)
Let me explain - She trashes her room, and when I ask her nicely to clean it she will scream, throw herself around, throw stuff at me, just generally act like a wild child. I try to make a game out of cleaning and that doesn`t work either I end up picking everything up while she picks something up and just walks back and forth with it. My problem mainly consists with her room, she`ll pick up after herself in the kitchen/livingroom/bathroom. Is there any sort of technique, advice, trick I can do to get her to pick up her room, and not be such a total brat when I want her to clean?



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