Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world
by the_af on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:23PM
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Wow. At age 3 some children cannot fully verbalize what they want or need, and some still are not potty trained. I'm ready to accept some 3 year olds can do this, but I think it's unreasonable to expect most children at age 3 to be able to go to the supermarket to buy groceries and fix their own food...
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Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world
by bombcar on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:03PM
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Depending on what you define "fix your own food" as, most 3 year olds will be able to do something akin to it; if permitted.
Our one year old could walk to the kitchen and extract things from the fridge, though she would have difficulty opening some of them.
My 3 year old cannot open the fridge, she doesn't have the strength/dexterity. She cannot open lids either. She cannot fix any kind of meal without making a mess. With play-doh she pretends to make meals and definitely makes a mess (and enjoys herself tremendously in the process).
She absolutely cannot go to the supermarket to buy anything, and she cannot cross the street either.
A 3 year old doing all those things... I'm willing to believe some can, but it's definitely not the norm, and not because we don't let them. They just can't.
Re:Don’t teach kids to fear the world
by RalfWausE on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:48AM
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I think this is more of a "you have to" thing: I vividly remember many 3 - 4 year olds on the vietnamese side of my family being MUCH more ahead of the ones from the german side... i would think it could be that we in the west put too little challenge up for our kids