At What Age Do Kids Start Picking Up After Themselves?

If you stopped by, you’d think a tornado had hit our living room. It is a disaster area. I need to get out the caution tape and wrap it around the living room area.

It’s that bad.

So the real question is: When do kids start picking up their things? I get after Monkey all the time to pick stuff up, she just won’t. No time out will get them picked up. Picking them up myself creates a meltdown. I have done everything short of tossing them out of the house. Nothing works. I suppose, if she’s anything like me, the answer is never.

Do you have a secret to clean up success? Please tell me I don’t have to pay $99.95 to find out what it is. ☺

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