I'm tired of stubbing my toe on Mr. Potato Head's mad scientist lab shoes. I'm tired of tripping on Darth Vader's light saber. I'm tired of peeling stick by # stickers off the bottom of my socks, and I'm tired of sounding like a broken record telling the kiddos to put things away before they get something else out. Their imaginations move to fast for me to keep up with everything they've got going on in their little worlds' of make believe. SO, I've re-instituted toy jail in our house today.
We've done this in the past where if I asked you to put something away and it doesn't happen in a timely fashion then the item gets put in "jail" and you have to do a chore to pay for it's bail. This method got some things off the floor, but the kids would forget about the items and never ask to buy them back. So, the toy jail box would just keep getting more full and more full. Plus, the kids are saving the chore money they make to replace a dress up box they broke a few months back by pulling out the drawers and using them for stairs. At 5 cents a chore it is taking a LONG time to reach the $25 replacement value, but that's neither here nor there.
So, this go around I think the toys will be confiscated for a 2 week time period and then released back into the general population. During their time of incarceration we will continue to do toy jail drills (timer is set for 10 minutes in a room of mom's choice, whenever mom sees fit, and anything that is not put away when the timer goes off will be thrown into the slammer), and eventually we will either have better management of toys or we will be working the toys into a rotation system which isn't a bad option either from where I stand.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put today's haul into lock down.
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