How To Separate Matured Kids From Their Toys?
This is a guest post.
As children grow, there are several necessary steps they take from their childhood to the date they finally leave the house. Kids tend to accumulate toys in the earlier ages of their lives that most times cover most of their space. In the early stage of a kid’s life, they get so attached to toys and you also support this behavior. It is because these items are all they believe they own in this world.
Having matured kids who still base their emotions on toys wouldn’t speak well of your parenting ability. Most matured kids that are attached to toys tend to have less confidence that is expected from them. In the long run, the separation is necessary; your whole family will have a lot to benefit from the separation. It will also help your child pay more attention to their growth and other life challenges.
Separating your kids from their toys might be pretty traumatizing for them, it might involve some unnecessary tears and a lot of drama. You can consider a few peaceful and joyful ways to separate your kids from the toys. Those ways are outgrown below.
Talk to kid:
When kids have too many toys it prevents them from having enough friends, so talking to your kids about how keeping toys is going to prevent them from playing games with their peers. You can enlighten them on how they can get hurt by tripping over or step on their items; it might help them want to create a separation between themselves and these items. You can also talk to them about the joy of growing up to keep their minds and imagination busy and spend less time with toys they no longer need.
Move the toys:
When your child doesn’t want to part with their toys, you can move them to a temporary home, outside of their bedroom before finally getting rid of toys. It would be difficult for the kids at first as they still want to be little, and getting rid of their toys means they are growing up. Moving the toys out would denote that it would cost them something to gain access to toys. After a while, it will help because they begin to consider the efforts to be unnecessary.
Encourage them to sell:
You can train your child on a little trade exercise. And at the same time help them get rid of their toys too. You can make use of a yard sale or other methods after you have encouraged them to sell their items. Well, it would be easier when they are in complete control while they are letting go of these items. Before you can do this, you must have convinced them of the advantages of letting toys go and how they could make use the money from the sales to own gain.
Teach empathy:
Teach your children charity, let them donate their toys. Tell them about other kids that are not privileged to have these items. You can make them feel responsible for helping others, let them know how much good they are doing by letting go of their toys and giving to other kids their age that can’t afford them.
Do monthly swaps:
Constantly changing the toys of your child is one very effective way to avoid too much attachment to one item. They already have been used to constant change, most probably monthly. When they get new items, they already understand that it is only theirs for a short time, it would make it easier for them to let go.
There are other working methods to separate your matured kids from their toys. If you know any additional tricks then please leave them as comments below.
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Author Bio:
James is a professional parental coach and career advisor. After years of experience working as a private tutor at Singapore tuition, he has started conducting educational seminars for students and their parents across the globe.
