8 year old boy, room is a tip, he's got loads of nice toys and he doesn't look after them.
For example
Nintendo ds games left lying around everywhere, under the bed, on the floor, down the back of drawers.
Lids constantly left of felts
Bits of games going missing and dumped around or jumbled up
So many times I've gone in and cleaned and tidied the whole room. Everything has got a place so literally all he has to do is put things back. I've tidied it with him and shown him where to put things.
I send him to do a 10 minute tidy each day but what I find by the end of the week is he's all the dirty socks thrown in toy boxes, put back in drawers, under the bed. Felts just thrown in drawers and toy boxes, bits of games hidden in drawers.
I've tried everything, I've made lists like, washing in basket, felts in pencil case, Lego in tub.
People have bought him nice things like a card game and I found some of the cards drawn on and ripped up.
I've even threatened just to throw it all in the bin and he'd actually rather throw it all away than tidy it up.
Any ideas? Is it typical of his age.
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Creativemode · 21/09/2016 11:13
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