this morning, ds (nearly 4) tipped out his bucket of crayons, pencils and chalks. When he had finished using them (and putting them under the rug) I asked him to put them away.
Then I asked him again.
A little while later I asked again.
Then I shouted at him to do it.
Then I turned the tv off and said he could have it on again when he had picked the crayons etc up.
An hour later (tv still off) I said I would count to 20 and any left on the floor would go in the bin.
So I counted. Ds leisurely put a few away. At 20, I went and got a carrier bag, at which point ds panicked that I was serious and started frantically putting more away. I put any left on the floor (quite a lot) in the bag and in the bin.
Was I too harsh?