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Toys – What's Worth Keeping?
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I know every family varies in what toys they choose for their children, how many toys, and what ones are worth passing down. We sort through our toys each December and it’s always interesting choosing what to keep and what to move out. I did a post about it asking for opinions and would love it if anyone wants to come over and answer my questions!
http://ourbusyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2011/11/opinions-wanted-what-toys-are-worth.html
Thanks everyone!
just read your blog post. am interested in other’s ideas as well. i like this, as we are talking about this even today!
but, how DO you get the ones who DON’T want to give away to actualy do it . . . without tears? we have one (8.5yo) who clings to the littlest things, even the tape dispenser roll (after the tape is finished!). yes, to me it is trash . . . but to her it is a treasure. and, throwing things away when she is out playing no longer works. 🙂 thankfully her younger sister (3.5yo) is the one who will put the trash in the bin without tears, and offers to do so.
in her defense (and i wonder how much of this really is part of it!!!), the 8.5yo has had a lot of change in her few years here on earth and, as is typical for MKs, she clings to everything because she has lost so much along the way (friends, dogs, toys, etc). but in her life she has also seen much of how “the rest of the world lives” (with very little). we just try to give her a balance, and right now i don’t know what that is.
i am all ears! 🙂 blessings! <>< michelle
I wrote up a comment on your blog, but when I was finished, it asked me for my Google account. I don’t have one, so that’s that. If I have a chance later, I’ll try to remember what I said and post it here instead….
I think I was typing while you were. I have one who “clings” to stuff, and it’s even harder because he is 12yo and autistic. Just the other day, he brought up (for no apparent reason) the fact that I gave away his Big Wheel (from when he was 4 or 5) and his little 12-inch bike with the training wheels (which he had held onto until he was nearly 7!) and now he wants them back….
He knows which two families we gave them to, and he’s being very insistent. We’re just going to have to explain it to him again and weather this storm.
Michelle –
For mine with those kinds of ‘trash treasures’ we allow a small box (think shoebox size) or a small backpack that they can keep whatever they want in (so long as it won’t mold…LOL). Beyond that they have to pick and choose what to get rid of from their treasures (trash) box if there is something else they want in there. It still isn’t easy.
Another thing we’ve done is pack into a box all the things they want to keep but never use. It goes in the attic labeled with the date. My children don’t have access to all their toys as it is, they choose a new set of things every week or so. If the items in that box don’t get asked for for more than a month it goes in the trash or to goodwill, no questions asked, no second chances.
The other thing we do is encourage a child to think of someone they can pass toys to other than Goodwill if they’re having a hard time saying goodbye to things.
Sue – I think you have extra challenges with autism for sure! And sorry it wouldn’t let you comment. I have that trouble on some blogger blogs too and can’t figure out why… Next time feel free to copy and paste it here or into an email if you want.
Sue: yes, we have the same, ours is Aspie. It does add an interseting twist. We’ve had the same with remembering who has what. When we left Kenya, we sold a LOT of things. So far we’ve just bunched things into that category (as far as where things are, and that we can’t get them back). But, now it seems as though she is holding on even tighter.
Tristan: I like the idea of the rotation of toys. I’ve thought of that, but we have no attic, very little storage space (here is Alaska, every inch of a house is used to live in cuz they are so expensive to build and heat!), and a mind (DD) that works like a steel trap! And I LOVE the idea of the “treasure box,” and that one might work. Its just “getting her there” to the point of understanding it and accepting it.
Good ideas ladies!
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