Do your kids share toys or does each have his or her own?
My oldest is almost 5 and youngest is 18 months. They are both boys.
Until recently we had baby toys and big boy toys. And the Nate had no interest in playing with baby toys anyway.
I've been going through sorting and organizing everything and Nate really wants to put Zack's toys in Zack's room and keep his is his own. So I've realized that I need to think about what I will let each boy claim as his own.
I always just figured the toys were the toys. But I remember growing up not wanting my brother to play with my stuff. Since he really wasn't interested in Barbies it wasn't too hard to sort out which were mine and which were his. But with two boys I'm expecting there to be more interest in each other's stuff.
So how to encourage them to share, but also let them have their own things to take care of?
My son is an only child so all of the toys are his own, but he has no problem sharing them or donating them.
However in your case, I would suggest a community toy box, in a communal area of the house, and then separate and different toys for each (or maybe the same toy , but different version/colorsfor each depending on what it is) and make it clear that it belongs to them alone and the other is not to use,take, or play with the other's one or they risk loosing a favorite personal toy and communal toy box privileges for a while. That will sink in fast.
so I evenually had to separate the barbies n all the stuff each girl got equil amounts of each item.. problem big sis would lose or break her stuff then take little sis stuff cause biblical style fights!!! I would have to put out the fire n make them stop all that stuff... So maybe once little man is older you may need to separate the toys but for now try to share the best... Hope it works out for ya:)
Up until we bought the new house, all toys were shared.
Once we got a house where they all had their own room, we debated the basement being a playroom. But decided on it being the big kids gaming room. So we let each kid pick toys they liked the most. Then based on what they chose we split the rest amongst them. And over the years whatever they were given as gifts, etc. go directly to their room. HOWEVER they do share some toys. Such as if they are having a Lego war and need more backup the older boys will borrow the youngest sons army men. They have to ask and return the toys when done.
my kids are a boy almost 7 and a girl 4 they both have there own toys but they share all of them
I have a girl and a boy, three and a half years apart so they had their own toys. They did share board games, our Wii and other "family" toys. I have several friends who have children who were the same gender and were closer in age (a year or 2) and they still had to get them their own toys but the same exact thing.
They share some and some are just for them. It depends on the toy.
share. right now they each have toys in their own rooms, but end up playing with each others anyways. I'm getting a new house and all toys will be in a toy room to share with each other. I wil have special toys in each room and after holidays and birthdays their new toys will be in their rooms for a short period of time
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- maxswolfsuit
on Jul. 10, 2012 at 8:38 PM