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Can your three year old.....?

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aloha · 23/09/2004 17:45

Take off their clothes and/or put them on? ie Put on their own shoes? Put on a coat? Pull their trousers down? Ride a scooter? Catch a ball? Brush their teeth? Climb into their own car seat? Get onto the toilet? Make a sandcastle? Use a knife and fork? Walk upstairs like we do (ie not on all fours or by literally hauling himself up one step at a time by pulling on the bannister) and come downstairs facing forwards without holding on.
I ask because ds, who was three last week, cannot do any of the above. The idiot HV seems to think this is perfectly normal, but from the three year olds I see, I don't think it is. I'm honestly not just asking for people to post with equally incompetent just-threes, but wondered what the consensus was.
As for toilet-training, don't go there! I don't think he has any idea he is going to wee at all.

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marbeth · 26/09/2004 21:07

Hi Aloha

Is it worth going to another health visitor in the practice with your concerns.Then perhaps a more detailed assessment could be undertaken such as Nefer.This should ideally performed at home.Following this assessments if there are then any concerns he could then be referred straight to community paediatrican.

Saker · 01/11/2004 20:02

Hi Aloha

Just wondered if you managed to get a referral for your ds in the end or if you decided to leave things for the time being?

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