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Teaching toddler to dress/undress self
We had our 18 month check up and apparently I should have taught m this now oops . He gets the concept of lifting legs out and putting arms in butthe doctor wanted him to do this independently. M goes to sleep in just a diaper because he sweats a storm up so it's not like I've walked in to find him naked. his diaper has snaps but he can take Velcro diapers off.
Re: Teaching toddler to dress/undress self
Emma is 26 months and she can pull her pants down, but that's about it. She tries but it's definitely not mastered. She tried to step in and pull up a tshirt yesterday by putting one leg in the neck hole and the other in an arm hole. Needless to say it didn't go well...but was seriously hilarious.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Admittedly, I am in no rush to teach this, though she's trying to do it on her own. L tries to dress herself by putting her pants on her head and vice versa. I've also found her in her crib all tangled in her onesies b/c she tries to take them off.
She sleeps in sleepless onesies b/c she likes to 'explore' the contents of her diaper.
Did they say why he should know this by now? I know one of the things they need to do to help potty train is to pull down their pants but I kind of think this is one of those things that will come with time.
I asked if this is a skill i should have worked on and she said yes. So she didn't say mastered but expected it I guess?
He was on point for everything else except talking (only has like five real words). which i am not getting myself worked up about until his two year appointment.
this reminds me - at our 18 month appointment the nurse went through the list and was all "Is he using and open cup now?" Um, he can, but that sure as hell does not mean it is my first choice. Sorry.
DS takes his clothes off if we start the process for him. But it would have never crossed my mind to tech him this.
As for talking, we had maybe 7 words, including animal sounds at 18 months. Now, in Bump land this is obviously cause for EI AND IMMEDIATE SPEECH THERAPY. I got "He is a boy who gets one on one care everyday and my (the pedi's) toddler didn't talk until he was two, so relax" so I did.
Also, I am betting that like DS, your guy has "words" that we don't count because they are not real, yo.
i wish there was a way for them to ask the questions differently-every time we go to a check-up, the nurse or MA doing the intake phrases the questions so weirdly. Once she asked "is he running with a waddle?" and I was like "huh? he's running. should he waddle? is that the developmentally approprate thing?"
In conclusion, all of our children are awesome. Including my friend who posted on Facebook that the daycare teacher called her son a prodigy yesterday, notevenahumblebrag.
Charlie is 4 and has just recently started completely dressing and undressing himself. H was the one who was pushing it, I thought it was kind of early. Guess I was wrong!
Sam can take stuff off and sometimes wants to try to put her pants/shorts on, but frankly I am too impatient and try not to encourage it.
DS 3.12.08
DD 7.11.09
DD 8.01.13
I saw mr number and baby numbers at the park earlier this week, i would say our children both were way more intrested in throwing away that mulch then talking about the finer parts off language development.
today i asked him to put his bike helmet on and he went and retrieved it and put it on his head. that's like getting dressed right?
ha yes i don't get the way they phrase the stuff. "does he make odd finger movements near his face" WTF DOES THAT MEAN??!!
I'm totally impatient. and don't really want a naked kid running around the house.
I am fully convinced that if you pay for chilcare, they should be blowing smoke up your ass on the regular. Seriously, tell me my kid is an adorable genius - that is what I pay you for!
On 12-24, someone posted with a fake crisis wondering if it was "ok" her 20 month old had 200+ words. Of course, a few others checked in with how their 20 month olds recite Shakespeare and whatnot.
THEN someone posts about having an extremely above average vocab at that age is actually a marker of Asbergers. Someone else with a DXd child agreed. it was Debbie Downer real quick in that post.
I dont know what Im doing with my kid. She is alive by the grace of god and my husband's common sense. I never think about teaching things like dressing/undressing until someone brings it up, so needless to say, she is almost 3 and this has not been a skill in our house as yet. She does take interest and can usually do it if I ask her to, but I dont really practice with her or test her on it. At 7am when shes a cranky beast and I need to get out the door in 10 minutes, I really dont care who puts her socks on, but Im faster so I do it.
As for the language, in my experience, most of the kids I know that have SAHMs or one-on-one care are later to talk than those in daycare, and its likely due to the fact that they dont really NEED to communicate with you in that way. But like Milo, they totally understand language, follow directions, "get" what youre saying etc so I would have no issues with such few words at his age--he's with it but doesnt show it in the way that pedi's typically measure it!
That being said, I can understand why everyone gets in a panic when their kid is not on point with some milestone and Id probably stress as well.
And Im with you on these vague pedi questions...I dont even know how to answer most of them. I particularly like the "does she look at you when you are talking to her" --well yeah if she freakin feels like it but she blatantly ignores me other times. I dont think she has autism, she has an attitude!
I personally love the vague skills that could either be milestones or early indicators of autism. Like the other day my mom said "He lined up all of the Cars cars in a row and raced them" and I was all "OMG DID HE LINE THEM UP VERY SPECIFICALLY AND GET UPSET IF THEY WERE OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE THAT COULD BE A SIGN OF AUTISM".
She was like, "No, he just raced them."
hahah. i love this. i do it too, although I wish I didnt, I just cant help myself. Im also obsessed over whether DD is left or right handed. I dont know why I care, but I do. And I really dont care if shes right handed or left handed, I just want to know which one it is. She switches back and forth so its still unclear but for some reason this is a very important detail in her development to me.
Like Kross, I usually don't start something unless it's mentioned. I've thought about Logan dressing himself or even pulling his pants up but one major step at a time. We're still working on talking. He starts daycare tomorrow so I'm sure all these things will come in a matter of time.
And Kross, it might be a good thing your daughter is using both hands. Dan used both hands and he plays sports as a lefty and writes with his right. I've never seen that before but apparently it's common as I've run into people over the years who are the same way. It's neat.
I was wondering if she'd be some combination of handedness (is that a word?). DH is largely right handed but plays most sports left handed.