Just a quick one really ... DP & I have recently started disagreeing on what DSD (7 but closer to 8) should be doing around the house and for herself. We have her every weekend Friday - Sunday. And up untill early December I cleaned her bedroom for her on a Saturday morning (whilst I did the rest of the household chores). We agreed that she was now too old not to have any responsibility at all. She should be able to put all her toys away properly in her bedroom and put her dirty clothes in the washbasket. DP however will not back down on things like - Using her knife and fork correctly, currently she eats pretty much everything with her fingers and rips things apart instead of biting. She chews with her mouth open and talks when her mouth is full of food. I personally think it is pretty gross when I am sat across the table from her and she is trying to talk with a mouthful of chicken nuggets and the pieces are spraying out her mouth across the table.
She also isn't capable of picking her towel up off the floor and hanging it on the banister after she has had a bath. She also doesn't seem to be capeable of taking her plate into the kitchen scraping it to the bag that's on the side and putting it in the dishwasher. She can't pick her own clothes out..either myself or DP still has to wash her hair for her. It's only been recently that we no longer needed to supervise her brushing her teeth. She doesn't brush her own hair.
It just get's me worried that she is so bloody mollycoddled and everybody does everything for her. I was mainly just wondering should she be able to do all these things herself yet? And do your children do anything else beyong this?
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HungryHippo89 · 12/02/2013 12:33
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