Is this normal toddler behaviour?

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I have a nearly 2 year old and she’s the best. Obviously we have tantrums, bedtime refusal, but on the whole, she’s as good as gold.

However, we do some toddler classes (football, ballet) and her attention span / willingness to get involved seems lower than other children.

For example, she will quite often wander off to the corner of the room, or just lie on the floor or sit by herself. At football she often just lies in the goals 🙄 and I have to pull her out!

She can take part and listen when she wants to, but it’s not often.

Is this in the realms of normal or something to keep an eye on? I have visions of her being at school and she’s the one refusing to do anything!

Nursery haven’t raised any problems, her speech is good, she knows her numbers, all her animal sounds etc so I don’t think she’s behind. But ADHD is on my radar but I might be overreacting?

I'd say normal! Maybe she just doesn't want to do those things, they do have their own little minds too.

If she's already going to nursery, I'd ditch the classes. Time with you is what she needs most probably.

Totally normal.

only some kids are capable of doing classes at that age. Mine weren’t so we didn’t

Its completely normal.

Not even two is far too young to be expected to concentrate on football or ballet lessons. I'd rethink whether there is any benefit to her in doing them at all tbh.

My 15 month old does do a fair bit of classes but he doesn't go to nursery. I think both nursery and classes is too much.

Mine used to lie in the goal at football at that age! I just stopped going.

Totally normal. There's absolutely no point whatsoever in having ballet lessons at that age, although some franchises would beg to differ! Leave it until she is about 3 and a half, then have another go.

I agree.

Thanks all! I’ll stop stressing. I don’t actually mind that she doesn’t really do the full class, I was just worried it could be a sign of inattention.

Im under no illusion that she’s actually learning football or ballet at this point, but we have fun (she thinks lying in the goals is hilarious…) it’s more somewhere to go to kill some time so the other parent can crack on with housework!

Yes normal. Mine was like this as he got older at the classes so I stopped them and we just did soft play, park, swimming and play dates etc as he just wasn't into a structured class. Hes still like this now at 3 years old. Very stubborn and a very active child so prefers just running around a park in puddles for 3 hours. The idea of a structured music class to him would be hell!