“I have a messy kid, and I am not a lover of mess myself! As you can imagine, this can result in some problems!
Before I had my daughter our house was organized, everything had a place, I never felt embarrassed about a messy house when visitors showed up unannounced and the list goes on! Sounds familiar?” – Teach Me Mommy
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I too have a sensory seeker, a messy child, a condiment kid who can walk through a room with no intent of damage and leave behind tipped over vases, a scattering of toys in his wake, and a streak of catsup on the wall.
• Train them Young.
• Straight from the start.
• Children Learn via Modeling the Behaviors around them
• Teach them to throw clothes in the hamper right from the start; to not let clothes lay on the floors, etc.
• Place dishes in the sink, etc.
• Re TOYS, etc:
• In our house: 1 or 2 toys out depending on if the toys can go together in play.
• All toys are picked up BEFORE another type of toy is played with and taken out.
• All toys are picked up BEFORE eating dinner, etc.
• Have consequences for not following rules, clean up, etc.
• Say, your child will not do it!
• Continue it.
• Repetition. Repetition. Repetition.
• Younger generation parents tend to give up to easily.
• Invest the TIME and ENERGY into the Appropriate Behavior you want Learned.
• Culture has to do with it to.
• If you grow up with white carpets, take your shoes off upon entering the house, do not climb on furniture then you will generally teach that to others as well.
• I have a friend who’s child climbed in the Fridge with shoes on.
• She gave up attempting to reprimand him and tell him not to, said she tried everything and he does not listen.
• I sternly told him and his sister to “Get Down and that is not appropriate, Do it again and they get a time out”.
• They listened, Very Quickly. No whining was involved.
• She was shocked.
• Told her, “Mean What You Say, Give them only 02 chances and on the 3rd warning, they get reprimanded.”
• Stick by your word and Do Not Give In.
• It takes time to “Retrain” a child from Negative Learned Behavior.
• Parents give up to easily; Do not want to hear the crying and the whining, so they give in and let their child Control them and the Household.