I have always had a “system” in mind to keep the house (and truth be told, the boys’s playroom) from looking like one giant toy box. I want to have everything in order, partially for my own sanity (and safety; stepping on toys hurts), but also because the research stating that children are not playing effectively when they are overwhelmed by toys. They don’t know which to play with and therefore flit from one toy to the next.
Lucas has always been able to hone in on a particular set of things to play with, thus eliminating my need to get serious about the clutter. Evan, on the other hand, just does not. I see him get so excited to see a toy and then drop it less than thirty seconds later. I have made great advances and adaptations to this concept (the original ideas is a toy “rotation”) over the past year or so, and I think I’m just about to get it down to a science. Stay tuned, by the end of the weekend I should have everything in place, ready to open the “Toy Library.”
If I can stick to it, it should eliminate more pictures like the one that follows. Wish me luck!