Developmental/skills milestones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any preschool that has a hard and fast list of skills that kids *must* have mastered is developmentally inappropriate. When kids are that young, they learn and develop at different speeds, and a good school should recognize that. Plus, it makes a school completely unaccessible to kids with any sort of special need (which, at that age, may not even be diagnosed/identified yet).

Thank you for this. Could not agree more.

[Anonymous]

I am currently working on all that list now with my 19 month old except I never thought about making her walk into classes/places on her own.

Thank you for posting!

In general, I think our generation expects way too little from our toddlers. The look of pride on my DD's face the first time she took off her own shoes was amazing! My DD wants to do these things herself!