When you pick up toys one at a time it's easy.

Why should kids have to pick up toys all at once? (I hope you're not one of those parents who ends up picking up the toys for them?)

It is about time we started looking at toy storage from the childs point of view. A child will gladly pick up one toy to get another one. However, picking up a whole pile of toys before dinner can be a real chore!

Pick em up Pattie wants to know what YOU think! Should Rick start to manufacture toy storage cabinets like the one in the video below?

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In case you missed it, this video shows how kids furniture can keep the other toys until the child puts one back. Then there is never a pile of toys to pick up.

The One-at-a-time Toy Cabinet has been available for my grandchildren and neighborhood kids for several years now. This design includes the key features of:

• The child can "see" all the toys.
• The child must "make a choice" (open the door) to get a toy.
• The child must put one back before getting out the next toy. No mess! ... Automatically!
• The child doesn't constantly "throw aside" toys, which tends to devalue them in the child's mind.
• Each toy has a "home".

Of course the parents must cooperate in allowing a limited number of toys to be "available" to the child at one time. Click here for some ideas on what it means when "pick up toys" becomes a chore! Some parents are avoiding the daily fights of toys spread all over the house. They are no longer concerned about the possible damage these fights have on their child's health. And they are freeing up time to spend with their children on enjoying the fine toys they make available.

The key suggestion is to help pick up toys by having relatively few toys available to the children at one time. Also "choosing" a toy gives the child a chance to value the toy, rather than being "distracted" by a jumbled pile of additional toys in a box which just might contain a more interesting toy at the bottom. Children don't like picking up toys just because their parents told them so. But they quickly learn respect for valued toys.

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