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[quote=Anonymous]1) Choose a certain amount of toys that are easy to clean up and just live “out” for them to haul around. For us that was stuffed animals. When they are little and want to carry things from room to room, give them access to a cart or wagon or whatever and their stuffed animals all the time but everything else goes away. 2) The bin thing is good but you need to make only 1 bin at a time accessible. If you can’t lock them in a closet then get a playyard or pack n play and put it all in there. They get one thing at a time. I remember my pre-verbal 1yo would tell me he was ready for a new toy by bringing me the lid to his current toy bin after he had cleaned the toys up. So e.g., in your example about the 1yo wandering off during playdough, you would re-direct him to help clean up his share of the mess (help vacuum, put some of the playdough away, etc.) and leave the 3yo with only what she can reasonably clean up on her own. [/quote]
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