Picking up toys

I’m afraid I haven’t been super strict about toy pick-up (probably cuz I can be obsessive and just want to do it myself and make sure they’re all organized with no pieces missing) and now my boys are 2 and 3, I now have a newborn and I’m realizing I failed by not enforcing this or making this part of the routine before. Am I too late? I DEFINITELY don’t want my boys to grow up and get married only to have their wives resent them for not picking up after themselves like I see so often on this app 😬 How is everyone getting their toddlers to pick up after themselves? We try to enforce it before bath time and my oldest will pick up a few and then get distracted, and my youngest will either completely ignore us or just watch his older brother 😝. Or they’ll just start playing with them again. My oldest is toy-driven and my youngest could care less about them so taking them away is not a threat that works on him. Any tips??
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My daughter is 2.5 and she picks up her toys at naptime and before bed every night. We've been doing it for months now, I can't remember how long exactly but just like with anything, repetition is key. I remember the meltdowns she would have when we first started. She does that with everything she don't want to do, initially. It's not gonna be perfect and she's gets distracted but I tell her to finish picking up the toys and name the item specifically if she's that off track. Also I let her have her meltdowns and afterwards she'd still have to go back and do it 🤷🏾‍♀️.

I just have grey bins and when I am in the mood to start cleaning them up I say sing clean up clean everybody do your share and then drop it in real dramatic to get there attention sometimes it works or I sing put it in put it in put it in from ms rachel it depends on their mood the same as us when we don't want to wash the dishes 🤣

My stepson is 4, but has a speech delay. Because we share custody, I used to just pick up after he was with his mom. Having a baby myself now, I hate doing that, so we have him pick up what he was playing with before he moves on to the next toys/activity. The trick has been that I will help him. Otherwise, it never gets done. I'd rather help him than do it all myself.

Personally I'm waiting until my daughter is 3 years old because every time I attempt to teach her to put toys away, she just winds up playing with them. 😅

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