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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAHM with a tidy house.

My kids don’t trash the house. We clean as we go. Done with cars? Pick them up. Done with blocks? Pick them up.

We are also out of the house a lot, which means we don’t need to clean as much.

I clean while they play. I fold laundry and watch tv at the end of the day. I rest during nap, so I’m ready for the afternoon. [/quote]

That cleaning technique only works when they play with one toy and move onto another so it’s easy to say clean up x before you continue with y.

A recent example of mine is kids making a cargo ship out of the playroom couch. It needs a kitchen so they arrange all the food on the ottoman. A band will be playing on the ship so out come the instruments and stuffed animal performers. Don’t forget to grab the tinker toys to make the ship’s steering wheel! Rolling toys are arranged in a pattern on the floor to form the edges of the ship. We all ride on the couch as the ship chefs serve fine meals.

It can be quite a mess by the end of the day.[/quote]

My house sounds like your house. I think the kids pull out all these things to create bigger scheme play because we let them. My kids would build a magnatile parking lot, then pull out the matchbox cars, then the wooden blocks to make a building adjacent to the parking lot, then they need a train track to the next city. Some parents don’t allow this kind of play. Benefit to our kids—greater creativity. Downside for our kids—mess and chaos and an exhausted parent. Not saying one way is better than the other—I used to think my way was better, but now my kids are a little older and it’s still hard to get them to clean up when they’re done.  But they sure do have some amazing ideas :lol:[/quote]

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