Wild toddlers in a bungalow 🤦‍♀️

[Kaxford]

Hi girls,
I don’t know if I’m asking the impossible here but I have twin boys 2 and a bit years old. Any other mums in bungalows how the HELL do you keep the house from looking like a total bomb site! It’s raining here today so after our walk i put a film on for the boys (of which they watched five minutes) and set about trying to organise and clean….tidied and hoovered their room and then went to hoover the living room in the space of five minutes they had their room upside down 🙈 beds pulled out toy box emptied mattresses pulled off their beds. 15 minutes later and the living room looks like I did nothing in it! I keep a baby gate in the bathroom and kitchen for obvious reasons but other than locking them out of rooms all day which I don’t like doing how do I keep the place looking some way reasonable or is it impossible? I’ve done three solid hours of tidying today and when my old man walks in he’s going to think I spent the day on me arse drinking tea 😂

Do they have too much stuff perhaps? Maybe rotate their toys a bit and have boxes stored in the garage, loft or somewhere like that.

If they don't have so much to play with, they can't make as much mess.

If you tell them sternly to leave their mattresses on their beds, what is their reaction?

My own experience of three kids in an apartment is that you can't turn your backs on them. You need to constantly supervise and make sure they understand there are immediate consequences for wild behaviour.

You need to be there with them, suggesting quiet games, playing with them, and keeping things strictly under control.

It's draining, and all you'll be think about is the million and one things you need to do instead, but it's actually easier to nip this sort of behaviour in the bud than to let it continue and try to instill better behaviour later.