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4 Simple Tips to Help Your Toddler Learn Organizational Skills and Have Smooth Transitions
- Below are four tips on how you can help your child be organized, develop skills and make smooth transitions between activities.
These organization tips may need to be adjusted depending on your toddler’s age, abilities and learning style. You can use these tips as a reference guide.
#1 - Create an easy-to-use and maintain bin system for your child’s supplies and toys. Separate the types of toys and supplies into individual bins. Take photographs of each type of toy or supply contained within and tape the photograph to the front of each corresponding bin.
For example: Place a photograph of Lego’s to your child’s bin that contains Lego’s. Do the same with markers, plush toys, crayons, and so on. Even if the bins are clear (transparent), it will be easier for your child to be organized if s/he has a visual cue as to where their toys or supplies belong. Choose bins with easy to remove lids or no lids.
#2 - Display your kid’s toys, supplies and clothing. It is easier for all toddler age children to stay organized if they can see their belongings. Drawers do not usually work well for young children. If you must use drawers, tape a photograph on the front of each drawer that corresponds to what is kept in the drawer. If possible do not combine items into one drawer, if you must put dividers in the drawers.
Install low hanging hooks that they can reach. One approach to teach and inspire them to use their hooks – Talk with your child about how they are a “big” boy or girl now. Babies throw their coats on the floor when they come into the house but “big” boys and girls hang theirs up, like mom and dad do. Most 2 and 3 year olds think of themselves as “big” and want to do things that “big” people do.
#3 - Set up daily routines and stick to them as much as you can. Creating and following regular daily routines can make transitioning from one activity to another less upsetting for you child. Toddlers tend to thrive on structure.
One helpful organizing routine -- Give your child a 10-minute heads-up before supper each day and then ask them set an egg timer for 10 minutes. Teach them that when the timer goes off, they are to pick up all of their supplies and toys and place them in the appropriate bins.
- It gets them more involved in the process and they will be more likely to follow through.
An addition to this routine -- When the egg timer goes off and it’s time to pick up and get organized, you could play a specific song that your child then recognizes as the “pick-up and get organized” song. This can make it fun, playful, soothing and also can help keep them on task and get the work done faster.
#4 Take your child’s schedule and make it a picture schedule. Picture schedules work best toddlers and for all kids on the autistic spectrum. Set up the picture schedule so that when your child is finished with the task or activity they can move that corresponding picture to the all done side of their schedule. Basically you are creating an interactive picture schedule that your child can "control". Their picture schedule could also be organized by first, next, last. This gives them a specific order of the tasks and they can move the picture to the "completed" side.
To be help your toddler get and stay organized use visual aids and keep it simple. Each toddler reacts a little differently, has different learning styles and is functioning at varying levels so adjust as needed.
About the Author
Heidi DeCoux is the publisher of the Life Made Simple e-Magazine and a speaker, professional organizer and productivity coach in Minneapolis. She is also the creator of the Fast-Filing Method home office filing system. Heidi energizes her readers’ lives by simplifying their homes and schedules. For more info, free tips on how to find more time in your day, and to receive her FREE Report: The Fast & Easy Way to Get Organized and Stay Organized Forever, visit www.ClearSimpleLiving.com.

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