My toddler will be having his two year check soon and I'm surprised to see it's at home as the last one was at the health centre.
We have been sent a questionnaire to fill in which is fine, but will he be expected to "perform" and do these things in front of her?
He tends to be a bit more predictable when it comes to socialising at a more neutral place which is why I'd have preferred to bring him to the centre.
When people come to visit us at home he can do anything from declaring them "friends" and insisting they engage in a tea party to shouting at them to "go home" and having a tantrum or anything in between.
I am a bit nervous that it feels like it's a "test" and he could end up just throwing himself on the floor screaming while she asks him to point at elephants or whatever.
I assume they just go by what you tell them mostly as surely a lot of two year olds wont perform on demand?
Do they bring things with them eg toys or will they ask them questions based on the toys they have at home? I ask because if I have all his toys out when she arrives and he's immersed in his tractor game he's very unlikely to stop to play with whatever she gives him.
However if I tidy them up and give him something else to do just before she comes then he'll probably be more likely to be interested in anything she brings. But I don't want her to think we don't have any toys for him!
know I'm probably overthinking it but I feel weirdly nervous? Like I'm going to be judged on his behaviour or that it'll be a bad time and she won't get to see all the things he can do.
I've moved but really didn't like the HV we saw when he was a baby and perhaps it's putting me off.