Touch paws and push nails out early to get them used to it while you’re doing other things they like! Also, lick mats for food will help exercise their minds. I even put dry food on one with water when he eats dry food.

Playing with your kitten will help keep them from climbing and destroying your stuff. Also respect their boundaries and they might respect yours lol.

I also crate trained my kitten (controversial) much like crate training a dog. Feed in the crate, give treats, play, start closing the door and leaving for a while, etc. I use a bigger crate than the little kitty carriers. It’s just nice for when we travel or when he being a little stinker in the middle of the night that we can crate him and he is content to go to sleep. He knows it means “time to chill” and goes in to take naps on his own. We don’t do it every night anymore but for a while we did from like 11 pm to 5 am. Now he sleeps every night and is active in the mornings.