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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My just turned two year old knows to help me put away her duplos after she's done playing with them.  But then just. can't. help. but dump the bucket back out.  You can try giving/making specific dumping activity toys, but it's just so much fun for them (same with knocking towers over, it's a developmental thing) that I don't even try to stop her.

As for the throwing, I would say, "no throwing or the [block/book/car] will go away."  Then if he throws, it goes away.  He screams and tantrums and you calmly say, "the car went away because you threw it.  You can't throw toys."  Next time he may look at you and do it intentionally to test (mine likes to look around for me, say "no no, mommy, no throwing", then throw and wait for my reaction).  You give the exact same consequence and stay calm during the resulting meltdown.  For my kid, rarely does it happen again (for a while at least) after that.[/quote]

This.  My just turned 2 year old is the same.  He started throwing a few months ago, but we were pretty strict (along the lines described above).  It still happens from time to time, but not as much, and we still take the toy away and say no throwing.  FWIW, we moved away from the "we only throw balls" line, because I don't want him throwing balls in the house either (I mean, how do you distinguish between a soft blow up ball and a wooden ball at that age), so we say "no throwing in the house."

As for the two many toys issue, I FEEL YOU.  We got inundated by the grandparents over xmas.  I took most of the gifts and put them away...maybe we'll bring them out over the course of the year on a rainy day.  We also don't have a lot of room for toy rotation, but I am going to take a few of the duplo sets he got and putting them either away or in another play area, because he looooooves to "DUMP!" and it takes too damn long to clean up each dump.  That sounds bad, but you know what I mean.

I think too many toys for a toddler causes them to be unable to play with any of them (other than the dump of course)[/quote]

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