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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a 2 year old and an infant and our house is generally pretty clean. We stay on top of it and the toddler knows she has to put something away before taking something new out. She helps clean up the infant's stuff too. What also helps I'm sure is we just don't have a lot of stuff and everything has a place (even if it's in a basket or bin). [/quote]

Ha! Your oldest is two!

Wait until you get to the legos, puzzles, art supplies, doll clothes, magnetiles, dress up clothes, etc.[/quote]

I agree.  Things got much messier when my kid was a little older.  There are more, and smaller, pieces.  And her imaginative play was sometimes quite extensive, and involved multiple kinds of toys.  You couldn't tell her to put one thing away before taking something else out, because she was building houses for her My Little Ponies out of Legos and Magnatiles, for example, and the houses were decorated, so that meant she was using her art supplies, too, and the Hatchimals were their pets, etc.    [/quote]

I would add, our rule is that you have to clean up when you are done with the toys (so, you're done playing with dolls and now you want to play a board game, you clean up the dolls).  But we don't make her disassemble all the houses, etc., just move them out of the middle, find a place to set them near the shelves, etc., because she often has put a lot of effort into them and absolutely will play with them again.  The one-toy-at-a-time people must have little kids.[/quote]

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