Ideas For My Dumper?

[kendallina]

I did the zip ties for the colorful shelves and it worked!!! I LOVE IT!

The other shelf is a huge issue though I just don't know what to do. I think i'm going to just take it out of the daycare room all together all it really holds is those bins and the bins are empty 24/7 because they keep dumping them. And now it is a game - if I am in one room changing adiaper and come back in I walk in to them actually throwing the bins around.

This age is very frustrating some days. 1 year older - even 6 months older I can probably get him to get it - but he just turned 2 and he thinks it is a game and when I come in fuming he thinks it is even funnier.

Instead of removing it, you may want to try just putting 2 or 3 of something in each bin. 3 animals, 3 blocks, whatever. If this is something he's continually doing, it's my belief that developmentally that is what's appropriate for him, you just have to find a way that he can meet that developmental need without creating a crazy mess.

[DancingQueen]

I think my bigger problem with the dumping (because most of those bins don't have too much in them to be honest) is that he is taking them out and throwing them on the floor - and sometimes at people. Giggling hysterically when they land and crash and especially when he gets any sort of reaction from anyone.

His nick name is destructo-boy. He likes to take things aparkt, knock things over, throw things, spill things, break things. I have a stand up cash register that he loves to push as hard as he can til it falls over. I have a coat rack with allt he dress up stuff that he just goes over and takes all of the stuff off and throws on the floor. I have a rockign chair that he flips over, he takes cushions off chairs, he climbs onto the train table - takes the train track apart throws them on the floor and then stands on the table squeeling in delight.
if destruction is a developmental need - then I need help figuring out how to deal with it.

I'm consistant, I'm firm, I redirect, I help him clean up, I remind him of the rules. I pull out fun stuff that he CAN destruct - legos and stuff. And even then he will play for them (big legos) for a few minutes before he knocks whatever it is over and starts throwing the legos across the room as hard as he can. (often times growling as loud as possible)

I guess the thread started about a dumper but really he is just incredibly destructive. I wonder if I just have too much stuff out?