age apropriate "clean up"

gloeiwurmpie - My mom and I have been teaching Luke to pick up his toys from as young as 6 months (naturally we were the picking up ourselves) - we pick it up and tell him we we packing it away and he is now 13 months old and helps us to pack his toys away (even if its only one or two - its a start) - we still coach him and tell him we are putting his toys away and show him... We encourage him to help us.

You can start re-inforcing it now. So even if you pack away the most of it - ask them to help and even if they put one toy away make a big deal of it.

I can't really give you an age. I still remind mine to do it - they don't do it automatically - well Cameron does to a point but will still leave stuff lying around.

So just keep asking them to help. When Kiara unpacks her packed away toys I remind her before "remember YOU need to pack that away"

Hi all,

At what age did you start a daily routine of teaching your child to clean up all toys lying around (even with a parent helping)?

what is a reasonable age to ask them to start helping with this daunting task?

Our living room looks like ToysRus puked on our carpet everyday, I don't have the energy to pick up everything everyday if she is just going to mess it all up again in the morning. I clean-up once a week for my own sanity.

When can they begin to understand that books stay in the bookshelf and not on the floor once you are done reading?

I am already starting to repeat slogans about cleaning up, but when can one start to expect them to start doing it by themselves (Please don't say never...)

I don't think at age 25 months it woud be fair to "take toys/books away" for not complying with the rules, hey?

sorry, this might seem like a really trivial question.

Thanks ladies!