How much do you keep?
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Anonymous
| How much of your child's preschool work do you keep? I typically keep the cuter drawings or art projects and toss the rest, but my 4yo just caught me tossing a worksheet she came home with where she'd written the letter J repeatedly (mostly backwards...) and acted deeply insulted. Maybe I should be saving more of these? Curious what others do? |
Anonymous
| Watch Bluey "The Dump" with her and carry on. |
Anonymous
| After bedtime. |
Anonymous
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You save them for.... a while.
From a 4 yr old's perspective, that paper with J's on it is very important to your daughter. Perhaps she was practicing the first letter of her name, or one of her good friends' names, or it's a letter she likes or.... BUT that doesn't mean you have to frame it in the house. Just keep those things in a box with a lid somewhere she can't see it and then toss everyone out on the last day of the month, except the really cool/fun/sweet/cute ones, however you define that. Then on the 1st of the month you'll have an empty box to start over again. Reminds me of a story my sister tells. Her 4 year old daughter collected.... everything. EVERYTHING. acorns, little rocks, big rocks, sticks, stones, twigs, leaves, pebbles, seedpods, pinecones, you name it, she'd collect it and want to bring it inside. The big things she parked outside the door, on the patio. The little things she was allowed to bring them in..... and my sister would cull them (aka toss them in the trash or back outside, depending on what they were)... one day after quiet time, my niece had snack and then tossed the wrapper into the trash can in the kitchen to find..... her morning's find on the top of the trash! Horrors! My sister covered quickly, scooping them out and saying they must have been mixed in with papers she threw away.... After that, my sister still culled but never into the kitchen trash, always to the big trash outside! (or back to nature) |
Anonymous
| None. I admire, they go in with the scrap paper and are duly scribbled on, ripped up, and eventually thrown out. |
Anonymous
| None, though things she really loves go on the wall until she stops admiring them, then I toss them. I have a few things with hand prints that I think are cute but otherwise it's just scribbles. |
Anonymous
| Someone told me. I more than 10 things a year. Makes sense. |
Anonymous
No more than 10 things a year |
Anonymous
| It should be containable in the space you set aside for it |
Anonymous
| I keep nothing. I toss stuff after bed and directly to the bin outside. |
katebrownell86
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| Honestly, I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I tend to keep the super cute drawings and art projects that make my heart melt, but the rest... well, they sometimes end up in the recycling bin.But hey, kids are full of surprises, right? Like your little one getting all worked up over a worksheet! Lesson learned, I guess – maybe I should start saving more of those "practice makes perfect" moments too. |
Anonymous
| Nothing. |
Anonymous
| I have a magnetic frame for each kid on the fridge. They get to decide what goes in it. |