My DH is the one who does the drop-offs and pick-ups at nursery with our DD (2yrs) 3 days a week.
Like most 2 year olds she wants to be as independent as she can be and we have always encouraged this as much as possible by giving her choices, i.e. "which bowl do you want with your cereal, the red or the green one", or "which socks do you want to wear, the white or the pink ones". As well as getting her to carefully carry her bowl of cereal to the table, help with unloading the dishwasher etc (she always wants to help with household chores).
Any way, DH is really struggling as the mornings he takes her to work she has a lot of meltdowns and he feels its because we have given her too much choice.
From everything I've read it encourages that parents give their children choice, however I do agree that maybe too much is not that great.
He had a client meeting to get to at 9:30 this morning and at 9:15 was sat in the driveway in the car, with DD in the back, him trying to stay calm while she had a paddy about the fact that the changed her mind and wanted her other boots on!
He is often late into work and whilst he has his own business and therefore no boss to answer to, he does a) have clients to 'answer to' and colleagues and staff who also have children and manage to get in on time.
Can anyone offer any advice for him please?
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Taler · 19/02/2016 10:29
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