Bedroom mayhem - for how long?

Hi guys,

So my boys pull them selves up on everything, which is fine and they play in their bedroom for most of the day as it's a pretty decent size.

So now it has an empty bookcase in there with everything that used to be on the shelves piled on the top shelf which they can't reach (yet). What do you guys do with bookcases/open shelves?

- Do they just grow out of sweeping everything off each shelf & chucking it on the floor?
- What did you do with all their books & other paraphinalia? I was thinking of buying closed drawers but then they're just going to jam their fingers in it all the time & it's not the ideal place to store books. Grrrr.

I screwed the shelves up on the wall lol bottom ones are within reach and have his baskets with toys and un-rippable books in them for his to haul out and everything else out of reach!

We have a open bookshelf in the room and the books used to get swept off ALL the time but now Gabrielle is getting the hang of just taking one of at a time - just had to catch her in the act several times to teach her. Don't think my patience would stretch to having to teach it to 2 tyrants at once though!!!

I saw a cool idea in a magazine that built one long shelf - like a freeze that went all along a wall and the books could be displayed nicely on that - it was a real feature.

I got the colourful 3 shelf ones from warehouse, flipped them sideways and put them above each other - see pic



ETA generally there are baskets in the three lower shelves with cars in one, books in another and match up animals in the third. Keeps it organised and he learnt to tell which one he wanted to play with. Easy to tidy too!

Edited by Babe

If the child is made to pick up EVERY SINGLE BOOK AND TOY each time they rip them off the shelves, they soon learn it's not that fun Jack's already slowing down his rampage and now only yanks a few toys and books off thank god it was getting pretty frustrating but nowhere else to put them