You're going to (continue) to get covered in cuts for the next 6 months. Buy disinfectant, buy bandages, think up creative explanations to amuse your friends, do what you have to do. You'll look back on the kitten period fondly, but that is the biggest downside of it.
Him having toys lying on the floor doesn't really help (much). The thing to realize is that he has a really huge need to practice all the various hunting behaviors that he has to perfect before he reaches adulthood, and he's going to practice those things no matter what. And he should because that's going to make him happy and healthy as well. And he needs to hunt moving targets, things that evade, things that hide, things that attempt to outrun him or seek refuge in trees or whatnot. So trying to scold him out of that stuff isn't productive because it ultimately doesn't help him satisfy those needs. So you have a choice: you can either direct those activities yourself, channeling that hunting into interactive toys like dabird or neko flies, or fetch games and the like that meet those needs, or he will make up his own games, attacking moving hands and feet and such, pretending that they are prey because that's the closest thing to prey that he can probably find in the house. If you do direct his play into "acceptable" hunting games, pretty soon he'll realize how much he likes those games relative to the other ones that make you unhappy with him. It also has the very positive side-effect of strengthening your bond with him.
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