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well I realise I may be expecting too much .. but I have spent A LOT of Money on toys and resources over the last year and have a beautiful selection of multicultural/disability toys, dressing up toys, regular toys, role play .. etc.. but I find that as the children *****mind are all under 5 they are sometimes very heavy handed.. and some toys which are only 2 months old and cost £20+ are beginning to buckle under the pressure of the 2 year old etc...
I find myself beginning to get stressed when new toys get broken, thrown and can I say disrespected??!! Now I realise that I need to remind all of the house rules but I do sometimes feel like my own LOs know to treat the toys well and the mindees see me as a type of nursery setting where maybe being heavy handed with toys is okay...
On top of this when the mindees are in the garden they are constantly sitting on the balls (which seems to deflate them).. or throwing toys over the fence.. I seem to have lost around 20 small cars and balls... Now of course there are times in the day when I preparing snack, lunch, or dinner or doing toileting routines so I can't be observing them all the time .. but some of these cars cost £3 each and this sort of annoys me....
I'm just wondering how does everyone else keep their resources in good nic, how do you stop things getting thrown over the fence.. I'm thinking of getting the child to sit on our 'thinking spot' when I see them throwing things over as they really don't seem to care when the toys they are losing don't belong to them...
sorry for the long post but thanks a lot for reading..xx
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