I have four children, the eldest of which is 10. Being the oldest its been difficult to understand what things she should be able to do for herself and what I should be still doing for her. Occupational Therapy want us to stop molly coddling her and get her to become more indepedent. Being a mum of four children I think this is a fantastic idea. For instance, not only is she terrible at remembering to brush her teeth she'd really rather I still did it for her, whereas her 7 year old sister would be mortified if I offered to brush her teeth. Should I be able to expect her each morning to find her own school uniform instead of laying it out for hear each night. Should I physically make sure her homework's (on the rare occassion we can get her to do it) is actually in her bag or leave her to it. Should I make her breakfast or again leave her to it - just over see what she's doing? What does your 10 year old do?
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What Jobs/chores do you expect your 10 year old to do?
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Wills · 29/11/2010 12:15
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