Hah. I'd like to try to run this by my wife. No way she'd go for it. Somehow, my assumption that their things should be in their rooms or a "playroom" is completely false to her. Her stance is that it's a common area ... that a "living room" is a room where we all live, and where we all keep our playthings whether that be my television, or their giant buckets of misc toy junk. She goes further and chastises me for the thought of trying to "hide the children away in another room away from the rest of the family."
I get her argument, but I'm with you. Things have their place. If they want to bring toys into the living room and play, they are more than welcome to do so, and then put them away when they are done.
Suffice it to say, my living room still lives on as an extra toy repository.
Re: Taking back the living room
Hah. I'd like to try to run this by my wife. No way she'd go for it. Somehow, my assumption that their things should be in their rooms or a "playroom" is completely false to her. Her stance is that it's a common area ... that a "living room" is a room where we all live, and where we all keep our playthings whether that be my television, or their giant buckets of misc toy junk. She goes further and chastises me for the thought of trying to "hide the children away in another room away from the rest of the family."
I get her argument, but I'm with you. Things have their place. If they want to bring toys into the living room and play, they are more than welcome to do so, and then put them away when they are done.
Suffice it to say, my living room still lives on as an extra toy repository.