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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: toys in the bedroom?
Message-ID: <1003@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 13:58:55 EST
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Summary: her toys are all over...

In article <92@drutx.UUCP> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes:
>>Comments? What do others do about toys in the bedroom?
>>Dave Sherman
>
>So where else would you keep them?  Seriously.  You don't want them
>cluttering up the rest of the house.  And having her make sure they
>are all in her room before she goes to bed is a start on responsibility.

Are you kidding? We have two large Huggies boxes in the family
room, and Ariela keeps all her toys in there.  When she's at home
(evenings and weekends), that's where we are and that's where we
play with her or she plays by herself. I wouldn't want her playing
off in some other part of the house at 20 months (though she does
wander off... but if she's quiet for too long we KNOW she's into
trouble somewhere!)

>It is her room.  All her possessions should be there.  I can't see
>that having or not having toys in the room will alter whether she
>is up or not--just whether she is gainfully employed at the time.
>Besides, in the dark it makes little difference.

It's not that dark - she keeps the door open (if we close it she
just gets up and opens it) and light comes up from downstairs.
However, we've left half her toys in her room and it doesn't seem
to keep her up. In fact, she runs around the room putting things
away in her dresser drawers before going to sleep (with rubber duckie
and fluffy dog, of course).

Cute story of the week: the other day, we were both wiped out and
didn't feel like getting up at 7:30 when Ariela started calling. I
knew she wasn't wet since I'd changed her at 4:30, so I just opened
the gate at her bedroom door and staggered back to bed. She came and
played in our room, and I guess we both went back to sleep for half
an hour or so. During that time she took every single diaper down
from the stack on the change table (which we keep in our room) -
about 25 diapers, and into each one she put a Baby Fresh wipe (then
she scattered them on the floor). She obviously knew what to do -
whenever we change her we wipe her with a Baby Fresh and wrap it up
in the diaper!
Oh well, I guess you had to be there. She's really a cute kid.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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