Tidying Up Together
Making the clearing-up part of the game.
Tidying goes better when it is smaller, shorter and more specific. "Tidy up" is an impossible instruction; "put the blocks in the blue box" is a task a three-year-old can complete.
These pieces cover making it findable — labels with pictures, containers that are not too big, and a clear stopping point — and the games that make it move faster.
Doing it together for longer than feels reasonable is normal. Expecting a young child to tidy alone is where most of the arguments start.
