Many toys in a small box

Eliyahu, our kid, as many other kids has lots of toys. Some toys he likes better than others, but what he does not like for sure is to play with all toys at once (neither do we) – very soon he would get frustrated, jump from one toy to another and then the rest of the day is just tears and “sorrow”. What did we do about it?

The solution is quite simple – he never actually gets to see all his toys at once. In fact, he has a tiny box in a living room and a big box in the bedroom (which he is not aware of). Whenever we bring a “new” toy from the big box – we check if all current toys fit into the tiny box. If they don’t- most boring toy from the living room goes back to the big box where he waits long and hard in the queue to be picked up again.

Not only that keeps our living room relatively unculttered but it also makes the baby much happier- he’s no longer feeling hopeless thinking which toy to play with- there’s just 3 or 4 toys to pick from and every once in a while he gets a “new” toy- a toy from the big box he has forgotten about long time ago.

I realize this is only a temporary solution for now, while he is big enough to sit and play with his toolbox yet too small to walk into the bedroom and find the big box. But we’re all happy with what we have now and time will tell what we’re gonna do when he grows up.