HV check list for 3 yr olds. can your 3 yr old do the following?

[deaconblue]

dress self
use knife and fork
hop
recite full name and address
understand stranger danger?

ds can only get bottom half off and nothing at all on. He uses fork and spoon. no chance at hopping, can hardly stand on one leg. And it has never occurred to me to teach him his address or mention strangers, although I'm sure he could recite address if I did teach him.
The stranger danger one seems really odd to me. I thought it was accepted that children are much more likely to be harmed by someone known to them than by a stranger.

oh - and can he hop... NO

Ds can only do the dress himself one at 3.5 years.
I expect he'll be a lot closer to doing all of them by the time he is 4 though and I guess thats what the check list is for.

I think these kind of checks are pretty important and its good to be able to compare your DC to the 'average'

DS had a HV check recently and she flagged up that he has a speech delay in the sense that his pronouciation is very un clear.
I honestly hadnt realised. I can understand everything he says perfectly. I've got too used to translating for everybody else.
As soon as she said it I realised it was true, but its not something I would have realised myself until much later probably and the help he can now receive before he starts school would have come much later.
I am very glad we had the standard check and would recommend it even if you dont have any 'concerns'

Hang on a second - understands stranger danger and knows own name and address.

If a kid understands stranger danger would he or she be happy to recite his name and address to a weirdo health visitor?

Iris - hello and lovely to "see" you and congrats on having a girl, there's no stopping you woman

Re: stranger danger, my friend's twin DDs ran away from her the other day so she told them they haven't to do it etc and that there are bad people out there who take little girls away from their Mummies now her DDs won't stop talking about it and are having nightmares

IMVHO 3 is too young, I don't want them to lose that little bit of innocence just yet.

sweetkitty - thankyou only hope she's as good as your girls!

Just saw this thread. My DD (just 3) can do none of these things (although she might know her last name, she doesn't know her middle one though).

She can, however, floor most adults with the complexity of her conversations (and she thinks she's friends with Barack Obama - really must work on that stranger danger aspect ).

I will not be losing sleep about it.

DS2 3 in July

dress self - trousers and wellies!
use knife and fork - have never given him a knife
hop - no, just asked him to try, and he did an interesting gallop! Can jump though
recite full name and address - full name, not address, but have never taught him.
understand stranger danger? - ???? never asked him. He doesn't like anyone strange though, so not an issue!

dress self - yes
use knife and fork - yes
hop - yes
recite full name and address - full names of everyone in extended family, no address (though I think if I wanted her to learn to receit it she could)
understand stranger danger - no idea

On the other hand dd2 will be clueless about all of these when she is 3, I'm sure of it. .

Hoppig seems like a strange thing to include, why no running or walking backwards or something more usual?

Stanger danger - At 3 there is no REASON for her to know this, its hardly as though she is ever let out of sight if we are out somewhere.