Feeling overwhelmed by ALL THE TOYS taking over your house? Here's why decluttering will restore your sanity AND help your kids be more entertained.
ast year, Roxana Condor was trying in vain to figure out where a new Ikea play kitchen for her three-year-old—complete with a set of mini pots and pans and pint-sized felt veggies—would fit in her semi-detached Toronto house when she realized her home had been completelyCollections of Lego, Thomas the Train, Duplo and Mega Bloks had expanded, in just over a decade of parenthood, into an unruly, plastic mash-up that now seemed.
There’s a multitude of things that lead to families being overloaded with kids’ stuff. New toys are easy to come by in our society—birthday parties, holidays and evenoften warrant presents from the toy store. There is also what Condor calls “the dollar store trap.” “You take a trip to the dollar store; you buy a bunch of crap they play with for 10 minutes,” she says. Usually, we have good intentions.
Having a house chock full of toys is not doing our kids—or us—any favours, though. In fact, an increasing number of parents and experts have come to believe that we’d all be better off with a whole lot less.Amelie Lacroix realized her kids were overwhelmed by the quantity of playthings in her house after trying—and failing—to entice her kids, ages four and two, to play independently so she and her husband could get work done around their Oakville house.
At Condor’s house, decluttering meant finding out about the impact of consumerism on the environment. She began teaching her kids about the limits of recycling and showing them videos ofSo does all of this mean you should stop buying your kid toys altogether? Not necessarily. But you should be more thoughtful about it. Miller suggests choosingdolls, trains or small cars—that require kids to be creative and to use their imagination.
Then, to streamline the toys you have, include your kids in the process of donating unused toys—which is what Lacroix did when she took a stand against her three playrooms. “That ended up being a nice activity in and of itself,” she says. “The kids were quite excited to know we were giving the toys to other children.”
After the Ikea kitchen revelation, Condor started donating toys that her kids no longer played with to community spaces and daycares where multiple children could enjoy them . She’s also letting her three-year-old play with her two older brothers’ toys rather than buying her new things. And she began to apply a new mindfulness to purchase decisions.
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