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What do you expect your 2 year old to do at home?

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gingerbreadbiscuits · 07/05/2018 07:30

Inspired by a couple of threads and worrying that I am babying DD.

Other than hang up coat, but away her shoes and help with tidying her toys DD does no other helping.

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failing4567 · 07/05/2018 07:33

Play?

DragonsAndCakes · 07/05/2018 07:34

At two, a token effort of helping me tidy an easy toy mess. That’s all.

Wait4nothing · 07/05/2018 07:37

I expect her to help me tidy up toys before getting more out. I ask her to fetch things (but only because she enjoys it) put her shoes away and pass me her coat rather than leaving it on the floor. She likes ‘helping’ so will take things from the dishwasher to the right cupboard but it is harder than just doing it myself!

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ObiJuanKenobi · 07/05/2018 07:38

Toys in the toy box before bed / garden toys in the play house, shoes off and in the shoe box and they like to water the flowers with their little watering can.

All other help is more just pretend help, and is more of a hinderance than a help

SoyDora · 07/05/2018 07:39

Tidying the play room, that’s it really. She does help with chopping veg/emptying the dishwasher/weeding the garden etc but it’s not ‘expected’, she does it because she likes to ‘help’!

SoyDora · 07/05/2018 07:39

Oh yes and she waters all the plants/flowers in pots in the garden.

isthistoonosy · 07/05/2018 07:43

Token helping really, so try to help tidy toys, hang coat (although this is getting worse as they get older), put clothes in the washing basket / machine / cupboard to help (not independently of course), help set the table, get own fruit from the bowl. Older dc could get his own water from the tap but younger one couldn't manage to move a chair at the age so couldn't reach.

My younger dc was dressing herself and picking out her clothes the day before by 2.5 but has got seemingly worse at this as she has got older.

captainproton · 07/05/2018 07:44

Maybe see if she could dress/undress herself? Eat unaided with cutlery? Drink from an open cup. Wash and dry hands herself if she can reach taps. It all helps for being independent at school.

TalkFastThinkSlow · 07/05/2018 07:45

DS is 22 months and I honestly don't expect him to do much at this point, except play. I was very proud yesterday when I showed him how to put his crayons away, and he took to it straight away. Then tipped the container over, spilling them all over the floor lol.

He does like "helping" to sweep though :D

Loulou0 · 07/05/2018 07:56

My just gone 2 year old will put his shoes away, put toys away, put his cup in the sink etc. I've also taught him how to get Henry Hoover out of the cupboard, and unwind him for me. He winds him back up and puts him away too.

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gingerbreadbiscuits · 07/05/2018 07:57

All other help is more just pretend help, and is more of a hinderance than a help.. I definitely expect all help to be unhelpful at the moment.

She feeds herself, has an open cup and loves drowning the plants.

She was learning to get dressed up now wanted to be naked all the time.

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