The holiday season can bring a mix of highs and lows for so many people. For some, it’s a time of great joy, it can be an opportunity to rest, recoup and to connect with family and friends. For others, working life continues, and for many this time of year can exasperate intense feelings of isolation and loneliness.
The festive season may also include lots of gift giving, sharing food and presents between family and friends. Whilst this can be joyous, it can sometimes lead to over purchasing and an huge influx of items.
Now can be a wonderful time to connect with your children and to make a plan for any toys that are no longer used. Toys can bring hours of fun and they can encourage children to play, an excess of toys however can be overwhelming and limit a child’s their ability to engage in free, unstructured play.
Depending on the age of your child, you might like to sort through the toys with them, getting your child to put toys they no longer use/need into a box, to be donated to charity, for other children to be able to use.
Or it may be an opportunity to sort through the toys with your child, putting them into different boxes to create a toy rotation. Toy rotation can help to increase creativity and engagement with toys that haven’t been used for some time, having fewer toys can reduce over stimulation, overwhelm and helps to declutter the space.
Is it time to declutter?
