Toy Rotation and Declutter
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Mar 1, 2025
Hey friends! One way I eliminate chaos and anxiety in my home is by utilizing a toy rotation system. In this video I'll be sharing just how I do that!
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today I am going to be showing you guys
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how I continue Noah's toy rotation to
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limit some of the anxiety some of the
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mess some of the chaos inside of our
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home so recently I did a toy rotation
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and organization system and now I'm just
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showing you guys how I continued
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throughout that system to keep all of
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his toys organized and keep a good
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system going
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love to have you here but let's go ahead
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and get into today's video and that is
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our toy rotation system for my
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three-year-old son Noah so here is what
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it's looking like in our family room he
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has a toy shelf here in the corner where
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I like to display some of his wooden
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toys and Montessori toys but then we
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also have this large pile up of toys
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that he has currently downstairs in the
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middle of the floor a lot of these I
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brought up when we had our Valentine's
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Day couples game night when the other
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parents brought their children over so
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that we could have a larger variety of
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toys for everyone to play with all of
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the kiddos but normally I do not keep
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all of these toys out for him because it
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is just too much to clean up he doesn't
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play with everything so it's just no
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need to keep everything up here so I am
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going to get all the stuff put back into
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its place where it belongs so I'm going
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to show you guys how I do that and how
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it looks after the fact okay so I went
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through some things and this is
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everything that I'm taking downstairs
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this is like a little baby toy and they
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stuffed like Magna tiles in there so I'm
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just gonna pull those out because I am
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going to leave them magnetized out for
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him but I'm gonna put this little like
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cube organizer away Noah hasn't played
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with this since he was a baby but we did
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have some little like younger Toddlers
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and babies here so I'm going to
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um put that back now I'm also going to
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put his little fire station away he
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actually played with these blocks a lot
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and really enjoyed it so I have no doubt
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that he'll probably still enjoy so that
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he can you know still have a rotation of
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toys I'm gonna put it away so that you
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know he can continue to enjoy it and not
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just outplay it he also has like his
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little felt sandwich making kit out that
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I'm going to put back and then a ton of
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just like small cars this basket here is
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like just more random like action
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figures and just toys that I'm gonna put
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away so these are what I'm gonna leave
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out his school bus his little monster
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trucks his PJ masks toys are all going
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to stay out for him to play with this
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basket I am going to take upstairs he
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didn't play with his nose Arc bolt very
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often and that's my fault because I
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didn't read the Noah's Ark book to him
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it came with a toy we read Noah's Ark
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plenty of times before different
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versions of it but I didn't really
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introduce you know the toy to him like
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with the story so I'm gonna take it into
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his room and then we'll read it and I'll
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let him play with the toy while I read
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the books see if you know he likes it
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this is a little bath submarine toy that
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he got for Valentine's Day he also got
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this pillow for Valentine's Day and his
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little Mickey Easter stuffed animal so
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these are all like relevant to like the
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season or just things that I think that
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he'll still play with so I'm gonna take
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those to his room and then over here on
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the Shelf I still have his Magna tiles
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out um so I'm gonna leave those on the
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Shelf because he always plays with those
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like I don't think that he will be happy
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if I put them away like ever and it
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keeps them quiet so I'm fine with that
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he also has his wooden Mickey train that
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I'm gonna leave out that he likes and
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his wooden tow truck these are just some
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of the toys that I pretty much just keep
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on this shelf like often he has this
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wooden railroad track that he loves but
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he mostly really enjoyed playing with
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this with my mom so the last time we
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went to my mom house we left is there
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and then we forgot to pick it up and she
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forgot to bring it back to us so I
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finally retrieved it when I went to her
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house yesterday and he played with it
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immediately when we got back so I think
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that he'll be happy to see this back out
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on the show for him to play with so I'm
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Gonna Leave This one out and then put
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the plastic blocks away as far as like
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building sets go and then he also has
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Melissa and duck fold out railroad track
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but maybe he'll pair with it to kind of
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just play you know look together so I'm
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just gonna put those little pieces
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inside
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um and then he also has like his Mario
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Yoshi and Luigi remote control cars so
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he has a Luigi Mario Kart one I'm pretty
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sure Yoshi is like behind the sofa or
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something so I'm gonna get Yoshi and
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yeah he has like these little toys that
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my husband plays with him with so I'll
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leave those out I have some random Legos
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to put back as well as his wooden food
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the wooden food has been out since like
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Christmas it's been out since I bought
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it so I think it's time to put those
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into a rotation so I will put all of
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this away
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um and then we'll leave it in there
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until the next rotation so yeah I'm
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gonna go ahead and get everything put
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away and see how that goes now that I
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have everything brought down to the
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basement I'm just gonna place them in
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the toy rotation system that I kind of
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have here it's not the prettiest but it
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very much works so basically we have
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medium carbs large cars
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just like really large toys
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I have some tiny cars there some wooden
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food items a little box of just random
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things I also have some tiny animals
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I keep his medium-sized action figures
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in here his tiny action figures there
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and then his small cars there he also
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has like a little plastic railroad
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system right there
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now I have empty baskets and this is
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what I now have for him in the basket so
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he has his school bus here I also
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grabbed him a couple of like little
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school people that he could put in there
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this is a teacher and Noah colored on
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him with like marker so he's gonna go
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over here with his little tractor that I
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brought out for him because it also has
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marker on the side of it so I'm gonna
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clean those but so he'll have his school
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bus with a couple of little students and
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a teacher to go with that
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he still has his monster trucks his PJ
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masks then a couple of farm animals in
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case he wants to play with the tractor
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like that so I'm gonna take out his farm
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so that he could play with his farm with
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his tractor and then that'll be the toys
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that he have and then here Magnus tiles
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his little wooden Vehicles his Wooden
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Railway side and then his remote control
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cars his bowling set
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few toys so this will be easier to keep
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clean everything on the Shelf has a
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place and a home he'll know where it
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goes I'll be able to easily put it where
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it goes that basket is for his bowling
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pins and that basket will be for lately
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everything else so that is how I do our
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soy rotation and keep everything nice
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and neatly inside our family room I want
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him to have access to family room toys
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but I don't want them to be scattered
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across the whole room so that I can work
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with so that is it you guys it is
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literally that simple it normally takes
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me no time at all sometimes I let him
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pick out the toys that he want to rotate
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out and sometimes I'll pick them out
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just based on what I've been seeing him
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play with and what I think he's
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interested in at the moment but this way
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he doesn't get bored with his toys he's
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always interested because if it's
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something that he hasn't seen for a
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while like for a week two weeks a month
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or so he'll be even more interested and
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more excited when that toy comes out
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it's always something that he's
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interested in we can keep you know a
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good variety of toys out for him but not
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so many that he's just playing from one
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toy to another taking everything out at
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once messing up the home and only
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playing with them for a few seconds
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before he moves on to the next toy I
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have found this has worked wonders for
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me so much easier and ever since I
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decided to utilize a toy rotation I
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truly believe that my anxiety has like
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decreased a lot because I don't like a
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lot of math I don't like a lot of chaos
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and I know people say that's just a part
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of motherhood which is true but there
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are definitely ways that we can make
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things a lot easier for ourselves or
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even just a little bit easier for
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ourselves as a stay-at-home mom or
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Homemaker or wife or you know whatever
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so again if you are just looking for
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another Mama that you can relate to and
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connect with that is just taking it one
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day at a time definitely subscribe to my
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channel I would love to have you here
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but that will be all for today's video
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thank you so much for watching until
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next time
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