Not helping my 5 year old

[paige789]

I've recently had a baby so have starting being strict with my son.
He's 5 and a half and in the mornings I get up and make him breakfast and that's it everything els he does himself like putting tv on, getting dressed, brushing hair, cleaning face and doing his hair etc. am I right to encourage him to do these things for himself ? What does everyone else's 5 year old do ?

My daughter is nearly 5 and in reception.
I still get her dressed, she puts shoes on and coat on, I do her hair, I defo prepare her breakfast :/

Alwaysbekind2014 who dresses her for PE?

Perfectly reasonable. It'll give him a self esteem boost to be able to do more for himself & will definitely benefit him in the school environment too. You know your child best & it sounds like you're nailing it - good for you!

I posted this because I don't know what age children should do things by themselves and I didn't know if I was being harsh, why is that so hard to understand my god this was hard work 😂

If someone said your being a bit harsh he's abit young etc I would listen to their advise but people are making stuff up about my baby and completely irrelevant things like tv which has nothing to do with it

when DS was in reception class i used to do everything for him in the morning because he was so slow himself and we had a deadline to be out of the house. However I can recall the teacher then raising with me that he was struggling to get himself changed at PE time so really I wasn't helping him. It is right that at this age children are learning independence but as others have said, beware of regression when the new baby arrives.

You are being unreasonable and harsh and quite a few have said that . A 5 year old still needs lots of help and encouragement. You should be doing it. The way you worded it what did you expect. Just another post trying to rile everyone up. Asks for advice and then disagrees with everyone 👎😴

But we DID tell you that you were being harsh and that not all 5 year olds can do this. But you didn’t like that answer. Yes, god, why is this thread such hard work?
(And if that was your question then why the unnecessary detail about the baby and the TV and what not). Just say: I ask my 5 year old to do XYZ. Is that reasonable?