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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would use a bin for each kid for their stuff if the hook isn’t enough. If you are home when the kids come home, you stand there as they come in the door and tell them to hang up their bag. They will be annoyed and start to do it so you leave them alone. If they drop it before you get home, you walk them right back to hang it up every single time. If they keep not doing it, you have them stand there and hang it up, unhook it, hang it up, unhook it five times in a row for practice.   If they keep not hanging it up, you take the bag and all the stuff in it. If they want something out of it, you decide if you want to let them have it, but you don’t give the bag back for two days the first time. Give them a plastic grocery bag to carry their stuff in.

If you have to keep dealing with this, you charge them cash for each offense.[/quote]

Basically this.  The Montessori preschool is spotless because they greet each child coming in, bring them to their cubby, show them where the shoes go, help them hang up their coat etc.  Every. Single. Time.  Until they get it.

You have to do something similar at home.[/quote]

How do you teach that to a tween who doesn't care and throws backpack and shoes on the ground even though there is a shoe cabinet and hooks and bins at the entryway.?[/quote]

I mean the same way you get tweens to do anything? Consequences. Basic parenting?[/quote]

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