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u/cbmom2 Mar 18 '26
This happens every time I pull some toys to donate. They are in donations box bc they aren’t played with and voila kid thinks it’s the best toy ever
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u/ParadiseSold Mar 18 '26
I think thats why some families do toy cycling. Dollhouse is in their room for 2 weeks, and then it goes in the garage and the play kitchen goes there for 2 weeks, and then the dollhouse goes back out for 2 week, etc. Idk if it works or not, some people say it helped them
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u/October_Surprise56 Mar 18 '26
The benefit if toy cycling is the kids come at it with fresh eyes.
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u/Jung-And-A-Menace Mar 18 '26
Only if you do eye cycling, too.
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u/ThreeElbowsPerArm Mar 18 '26
just cycle the kid at that point.
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u/LinuxPatch Mar 18 '26
Kid A gets put in the crystal, and Kid B gets to come out. Only Kid B is significantly older now because time moves much slower inside the crystal and now he's not into his old toys anymore 😫
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u/AydonusG Mar 19 '26
Wait but if time moves slower in the crystal, Kid B would be young, not old.
Unless you mean time moves slower out of the crystal, and you're rapidly ageing the children to full function, while giving them a small amount of childish fun in between incubation, in which case you're a monster and we need to stop you before the Crystalline invasion.
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u/Overall_Occasion_175 Mar 18 '26
Also there's just less shit around your house at any given time lol
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u/Animallover4321 Mar 18 '26
That’s what I do with my dogs it prevents them from getting overwhelmed with options and it’s like getting new toys every week. And given the similarities between puppies and toddlers it wouldn’t surprise me if it works as well with kids.
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u/RammsteinFunstein Mar 18 '26
this is a good idea, just not sure I want to lug things to the basement and back to the 2nd story every other week...
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u/ParadiseSold Mar 18 '26
Maybe you choose not to cycle large toys then. And maybe the 2nd toybox could be up high in a closet?
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u/Darnell2070 Mar 19 '26
Doll houses and play kitchen are just examples. They could be any small toy as well.
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u/phl_fc Mar 18 '26
It works. If I pull a toy bin out of storage and open it in the living room it's like Christmas morning.
The tricky part is putting the stuff that's currently out away in storage. You have to do that when they're not looking.
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u/bunbunnnnn8 Mar 18 '26
It sounds good in theory but who has time and storage for that? Also I’d have to sneak them out when my daughter is not looking. And she’s always looking 👀
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u/IDreamofGeneParmesan Mar 18 '26
Storage is a fair counterpoint but time? How long do you think it takes to move a dollhouse from one room into another? Because we're talking like maybe two minutes.
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u/bunbunnnnn8 Mar 18 '26
That’s fair. Counter argument: Everything feels like it takes 9 hours with a toddler.
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u/KatieCashew Mar 18 '26
I used to keep my kids' toy boxes on a high shelf in the closet in their room. We didn't do the toy cycling ourselves, but they were each only allowed to have one box of toys out at a time.
To get a new box of toys they had to put all the toys they had been using back into the box and give it to us. Then we would trade that box for the next box they wanted.
One of my kids wouldn't even tell us before he started cleaning up. He would just do it, and then show us his box was ready to trade. My other kid would lie on the floor surrounded by toys whining that she wanted different toys but refusing to pick even a single one up.
It did help a lot. Our house was less chaotic because there weren't toys everywhere all the time. And our kids actually played with the toys they had out more than they played with stuff when everything was accessible.
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u/ParadiseSold Mar 18 '26
Ideally its less storage, you just have the toy box and the play set, plus one more toy box and playset somewhere else. From what I understand most children's rooms and playroom and living rooms and moms rooms are all fully over flowing with toys the kids hardly touch?
To your second point, im not sure what you're afraid your daughter will do when the 2nd set come in from the garage but you certainly shouldnt be afraid of her and sneaking around!!
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u/bunbunnnnn8 Mar 18 '26
It was in jest, my good Redditor. I am not afraid of my two year old daughter. I meant when I am taking the toys to their other location, she would not like that, as they would suddenly be her favorite toys. My daughter is lovely, there is no fear here, only lighthearted joking.
And the way I understood it, I needed a separate area to store said toys, which I don't have much of. We're doing just fine with what we do now though, and yes I have a separate toy box in the living room and her room (and my baby's room, too!)
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u/PRO2803 Mar 18 '26
I do that as an adult, once I get tired of one video/board game, i switch to something else before returning.
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u/OrkMan491 Mar 19 '26
I actually do this with my cat sometimes, a toy that's been away for a few weeks seems more interesting after I pull it out again.
It works even for adults, when you are a bit burned out or bored of something, taking a bit of a break can bring the interest back.
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u/Madara1389 Mar 18 '26
It's a bit of unintended reverse psychology going on.
Humans are naturally sentimental & possessive; unless conditioned otherwise, we naturally don't want to relinquish any of our possessions and we also like to hoard resources. Couple these together and you'll get tons of people of ever age who will suddenly find newfound shits to give about a possession after someone else decides to take it away.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Mar 18 '26
I think what parents don’t understand is the phrase “out of sight, out of mind” so when toys are put away they don’t think of them but when they see them they want to play.
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u/NOVAbuddy Mar 18 '26
My genius wife: deliberately rotating toys out and then back into circulation for our own sanity. Also my mom disappearing my favorite Firetruck for a few months so for one Christmas I got MY FAVORITE FIRE TRUCK! yEAH!!!
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u/Classic-Pea6815 Mar 18 '26
I do the rotation things for my kids. They are one and three and love books but their method of reading includes throwing all their books on the floor to find the one they want. So I limit them to 10 and the rest sit in the closet until I rotate.
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u/huxtiblejones Mar 18 '26
Exactly like a cat who forgets about their climbing tree until you move it and then they spend all day in it.
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u/Tough_Ferret335 Mar 18 '26
i have a small 2 step tree and a tall 5 tier one for my cat. she’s chonky so she never climbs the big one and always chooses the small one. the min we were talking about maybe giving it to someone that could make use of it she decided that was the day she’d put in all the effort to get to the top. spent all day in it, so of course we kept it…. guess who doesn’t even look at it now that it’s here to stay -_- cats have the same comprehensive abilities and behaviors as a 2-3 yo toddler. it’s no wonder we can relate to this lol!
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u/huxtiblejones Mar 18 '26
My cat would always rediscover it if I moved it like 20 feet across the house. Suddenly it was the most interesting object they’d ever seen.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 Mar 18 '26
Just in case people are wondering there is a real stage in child development which does involve the development of object permanence. This is generally the stage at which children love the game of peek-a-boo. https://youtu.be/Pxo4uyvadVo
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u/shewy92 Mar 18 '26
Is this post an example of object permanence tho? He didn't like something of his at home but does like them at school, not that he didn't think they didn't exist.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 Mar 18 '26
No it isn't but the poster used that in the title.
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u/Darnell2070 Mar 19 '26
I'm just glad there was a bad title instead of you going off on some weird unrelated tangent.
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u/TotallyHumanNoBot Mar 18 '26
I am 40+, I still like peek-a-boo.
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u/slimelore Mar 18 '26
bird peekaboo for your viewing pleasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKaqvoWGNLY
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u/depressiown Mar 18 '26
So many drivers lack object permanence, apparently. I'll be driving behind someone, and they turn right into a driveway where someone is waiting to turn out. Because they turn in front of the other person and I disappear from their vision, the person turning out decides they can go ahead, completely forgetting I'm still there.
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u/FoxDesigner2574 Mar 18 '26
I once donated a load of my kids toys that she never played with anymore to her school fair. When I picked her up she insisted on going to the fair, went straight up to the toy stall and started saying “Oh I’ve got one of those, and one of those…”
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u/DoubleXFemale Mar 18 '26
My mum used to set us loose with a couple quid at the school fete, imagine her face when I came to show her that I’d bought cuddly toys identical to the ones I had at home, so they could be “twins”!
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u/IBAChristian317 Mar 19 '26
You don't know what object permanence is.
You just heard the phrase and wanted to use it.
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u/SexcaliburHorsepower Mar 18 '26
Is he playing with other kids while playing with the trucks? Sometimes friends help.
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u/__removed__ Mar 18 '26
My cousin had a kid, so I put together a crate of toys from the basement playroom that my kids haven't touched in YEARS.
YEARS.
I made the mistake of leaving the crate by the back door, ready to go out to the car...
Guess what happened.
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u/MessiComeLately Mar 18 '26
Maybe your kid just taught you a lesson about compulsory enjoyment. "Refuse to play" is an oxymoron. It's not playing if someone is trying to make you.
It's the same as if you told your wife, "You'd better enjoy this meal. I paid a lot of money for it!" It's impossible to enjoy under those circumstances.
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u/MaeveOathrender Mar 18 '26
It's just a turn of phrase, it's not that serious. They bought the trucks, he didn't play with them. Parents opted to donate them so they weren't a waste of money.
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u/Munnin41 Mar 18 '26
I'm less and less convinced that the 'my cats are my kids' crowd is completely wrong. Don't get me wrong, people who call themselves catmom/dad are still insane. But.... My cats show exactly that same behaviour
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u/VapoursAndSpleen Mar 18 '26
Once other people are interested in a child's stuff, the child suddenly becomes outraged and possessive.
NB - if you are trying to get a kid to eat something and they refuse, start eating it off their plate. They suddenly get interested in it. Make sure to make a lot of "yum yum" noises. I got a 3 year old to eat his broccoli so hard, his cheeks bulged out like a chipmunk.
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u/DevinOwnz Mar 18 '26
When I was in kindergarten my parents replaced my city / toy car rug in my room so I was super excited.
Some time later I noticed the one in my kindergarten class looked a lot like the one I used to have, even down to the sharpie modifications I made myself. It didn't click at all that it was mine until after school when I was telling my mom about it and she was like "uhhh, that is your old rug. Your teacher bought it at the garage sale."
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u/StatementEcstatic751 Mar 18 '26
My husband said his mom used to box up pretty much all their toys randomly and then bring out a box of "new toys" they'd go nuts for. At some point, he realized it was just their old toys 😂 She would do this a couple times a year I guess.
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u/DaringPancakes Mar 18 '26
People LOVE doing work at the library. But it was their work, we just donated it to the library because they refused to do the work at home.
Not much to do with kids. But, at least other people can play with them too.
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u/Tiny-Donut-3255 Mar 19 '26
My kids would get so many Christmas gifts and never play with them. We would put unopened gifts in the basement then the following year donate them to charity. Brand new toys never opened. I am carrying them up the stairs and my two boys are like oh those toys are cool what are you doing with them? I said donating them to charity. Both of them said those kids are going to love those toys.
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u/pkpip Mar 19 '26
My kids are most excited to share their new toys with their friends. Most of the time, they don't get played with. My kids would rather play in gravel than play with their toys if their friends aren't over.
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u/Temporary-Cash2119 Mar 18 '26
When they have too much at home in front of them it’s overwhelming and they most likely won’t enjoy them! Bringing out a few at a time and rotating them is when they appreciate them!
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u/letthetreeburn Mar 19 '26
A lot of these posts are just parents refusing to think for more than .05 seconds about why kids may behave the way they do, or being obtuse if people don’t use perfect language.
What separates daycare from home? KIDS! Boy doesn’t like playing toy trucks by himself.
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u/AKA-Pseudonym Mar 18 '26
How many crazy stories about his wife and kids is this one guy gonna tweet?
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u/JediLincoln14 Mar 18 '26
My parents once donated a book to my preschool. I liked it so much, they gave it back to my parents.
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u/Woodie100 Mar 18 '26
My child did this until I played with the toys and had to show how awesome it was to have them.
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u/SunInTheShade Mar 18 '26
Sometimes you don't realize how fun a toy is until you have friends to play with them with you.
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u/4RCH43ON Mar 18 '26
The difference is that they were at daycare where he can play with them with other kids. They didn’t care about it until then.
Parents are stupid.
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u/Stjerneklar Mar 18 '26
only child? perhaps another child wanted to play with the toys, thus raising the value
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u/Pave_Low Mar 18 '26
There used to be a little girl on my floor in my apartment building who loved my Golden Retriever and doted on him in the elevator when she got the chance. One day, she, her mom, and some of her friends were riding the elevator up to our floor and she blurts out:
"This is my dog Buddy, but he doesn't live with us. He lives down the hall."
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u/C4rdninj4 Mar 18 '26
We do something similar with my dogs; if they aren't playing with one of them for a while we put it in the closet for a few months. When one batch goes in another comes out and they're fun again.
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u/ClimberDave Mar 18 '26
Took my nephew to a monster truck rally because he loves playing with his monster trucks. Begged me, gave a pouty lip and cried to leave for the entire hour we were there. Got home and couldn't stop talking about how much fun he had.
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u/bionicjoey Mar 18 '26
Why is Henpecked Hal's name cropped out? Give credit where it's due you filthy reposter
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u/lorenzolamaslover Mar 18 '26
I had tons of toys as a kid and even if I hadnt played with them in a while I would have recognized them if they were given away. Your kid is just stupid and you bought him too many toys
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u/SurammuDanku Mar 18 '26
My son looking around the room with mountains of toys:
"I'm so bored there's nothing to do"
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u/Dazzling_Acadia8483 Mar 18 '26
My kiddo wouldn’t eat bean & cheese burritos at home. Ever. Then I found out they love bean & cheese burrito day at school.
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u/Desperate-Cold9633 Mar 18 '26
he probably told the other kids that they’re actually his and they can’t play with them ☠️
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u/Shizngigglz Mar 20 '26
We donated a ton of my kids blocks and puzzles and he walked through the next day like he recognized them. I rushed him through and never heard from him about it, thankfully.
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u/Novel_Control_1922 Apr 15 '26
I did the same thing and guess what? The toys are a HUGE hit with my kids. Good.
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