I've been puzzling over CHAOS Theory recently. That's right: Childrens' Horrendous Accumulation of Stuff. They see something. They want it. They play with it for, ooh, a day at the most (two days if a sibling or friend shows an interest), then it just becomes clutter that they have to tidy up. And tidying up is something that they don't want to do. In fact, I don't want them to do it either. I want their rooms to be organised so they can spend more time playing and less time getting upset because their rooms are in a mess.
When I was even shorter than I am now, I used to get upset when my room magically got messy all by itself. Being made to clean up my room and reorganise a calligraphy set, I stumbled across a quote and even to this day I actually remember it....and I have a very selective memory, so this is pretty impressive:
The chaos about thee is but the confusion within thee.
I was and still am terrible at calligraphy, but loved the book for it's wonderful quotes, even if I didn't fully appreciate their meanings at that time.
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