do your children's toys live in the lounge or their bedrooms?

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Just that really!!

Decided when ds was born that toys would be kept in bedrooms as
(a) was fed up of dd's toys taking over the hpouse and having so much tidying up to do, and
(b) worried that when ds startedmoving his sister's toys would be a hazard to him (3 year age gap).
So now they each have a smallish basket that we fill up from their bedrooms and take downstairs and that it the maximum amountof toys allowed out at one time. If they want any others they need to be swapped over. Makes cleaning up sooo quick at the end of the day.

Absolutely not in the bedrooms! Personally, I don't like the idea of dd having to go off and play away from the rest of her family (she's 2)... she sleeps in her room and that's about it. Lucikly we have a huge living room and so she has the back half and the sofas are in the front part. It means we can all be together, yet still keep some resemblance of order in the house!

i think the living room definitely until they reach an age where they don't mind going to their rooms. if they are playing it means you can also get involved rather then having to go upstairs all the time.

In the lounge. We went her to associate the bedroom with sleeping, not playing. She has a box of toys in the lounge, the kitchen and our bedroom.

both

We also think the same about bedrooms expat she is allowed books and the odd toy in their but no toys. She has a tiny boxroom for her bedroom ( she has a large playroom downstairs) and I use the second double bedroom as my study.

My mum thinks this is horrifically cruel!

most of dds toys are in her bedroom, but easel, messy toys or things with smaller bits (dice etc) all stay in living room. Bath toys in bathroom confiscated toys are in my bedroom

I don't see it as cruel, TSAP. I have always had insomnia, and one of the things I picked up from various treatments for it over the years is to make your bedroom exclusively for bedtime activities. For example, if you use your bed to work, watch TV, eat, read, etc., your brain does not associate it w/going to sleep, and this alone actually makes it harder for you to fall asleep in the bed.

So her bedroom is just that - a bedroom with a soothing lamp, books and bed.

I have toys in crates in his room but he doesn't play there. The big stuff stays downstairs in the toy box in the (big) dining room and we bring the other boxes down for different things to do. We try to keep it out of the living room so we always have somewhere half tidy to sit after ds goes to bed.

most in bedroom with a changing toy shelf in the living room

Playroom & bedroom.
Dh will not allow toys in the lounge or kitchen.

mainly in the bedroom, some in the living room, scaletrix in the conservatory at the mo, playstation in the playroom/spare room, kids' macmini and drawing stuff on the table in the kitchen/b'fast rm (also used for mumsnetting when I'm cooking dinner) .

both toys all over the place. No child free zone..they over run the whole house!!

Some in their room (they share one), loads downstairs and none at all in our room.

My fun things are "allowed" everywhere in the house. Wherever I want them, really, except strewn on the floor. Then it would be my problem if someone stepped on something and broke it. So I do like things neatly organised on shelves. I like to have some of my fun things in whichever room I happen to be in. I don't like the idea of a boring room with none of my fun-stuff in it.

Don't have different rules for the kids' things.

They live everywhere. There's even a small box in the bathroom for non-bath toys (bath toys are in a nuisance net over the bath). Toys in our bed. They're bl**dy everywhere.

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In the living room - who can be bothered trailing back with them everynight? We havbe an enormous living room though with a trainset table the size of a bed, not even touching the edges.

He has books all over the house, in the car in bags, everywhere. Luckily if he wants a specific book he finds it himself.

I've got used to them, other people probably notice them more. I'm quite partial to bright plastic actually.

Toys everywhere ... thanks to DD and her habit of carrying stuff around then putting it down when she sees something more interesting ... also have other stuff everywhere ... teaspoons in the bathroom, deodorant in the dining room ... you know the sort of thing ... happens when you have a 20 month old and a mother who has better things to do with her time than follow her around and pick stuff up (ahem, like be on Mumsnet

dont toys come with kids.I dont like visiting houses where you cant tell they have children..think its sad!

toys in a playroom and books in bedrooms (a few special toys on a shelf). Toys come out and can be used most anywhere in the house during the day (usually whereever I am) but boxed up and away at end of day. The kids read more with just books in their rooms.

ds toys are kept in his bedroom. he can bring some downstairs but they have to be taken back up.

dds toys are downstairs in a big toybox hidden from view.

in the conservatory/kitchen (all one room). Baby has only been into the living room about three times - when she's older she might not even know it exists, then it will be like narnia when we open the door

Seriously though, yes, it's a luxury to have the extra space to do that. We go into the living room after she goes to bed and it's a baby-free haven