Toy decluttering: 3 steps to make your evening toy pickup routine easy as a work-from-home mom (finally!)

There you are again, kneeling on the floor, gathering up dozens (or hundreds) of tiny pieces. Lego, blocks, duplo, cars, doll accessories – it doesn’t really matter what kind, does it? Just that once again, you were the one left to clean it all up. Let’s turn this around. Let’s get the kids picking up their own messes. Let them deal with hundreds of lego bits, dozens of doll outfits, or that huge pile of wooden blocks. How to make this nirvana reality? Three steps. What you’ll learn:·        A little labeling helps the kids set up a consistent system for toy pickup·        You’re going to need bins or open boxes – not lidded containers·        Pare down each collection – small sets go much faster in the cleanup process New rule: They clean up their own messes! Your job: stand around and keep an eye on the process. Keep little ones on task, watch out for anyone indiscriminately throwing toys in a box, and provide encouragement. You may even hear them enforcing the limits on each other. (Don’t dump those blocks in here; we don’t want a huge mess to pick up!) And that’s when you’ll know it finally sank in. Your kids know the rules now. And you don’t ever have to be the one kneeling on the floor, surrounded by hundreds of toys, again. You’ve got this!Alyssa Episode transcript: https://yourunbusylife.com/3-steps-to-make-pickup-easy/Routines for introverted moms: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Interested in skipping all those hours of clean-up just before bed?Book your free Work/Life Balance session: https://yourunbusylife.com/free-call/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ☕️ Thursday at the Coffee ShopDrop into Voxer anytime Thursday.Bring me the one project your to-do list has basically adopted at this point. 😂Maybe it's a site update.Maybe it's a launch decision.Maybe it's something that's been living on your Tuesday list for... longer than either of us would like to admit. 😂I'll wander through Voxer with a cup of coffee and tell you what keeps catching my eye.No presentation. No "come prepared." No homework (unless you ask for it). Just a conversation about the business thing that absolutely refuses to graduate. 😂Coffee Shop Thursdays this series:☕️ August 20 - The Busy Trap☕️ August 27 - The Busy Trap☕️ September 3 - The Busy TrapI'll keep taking conversations throughout the day ‘til Thursday fills up.→ Pull up a chair here