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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 2.5 year old can do the entire list.  It is possible, Posters.  She has two older brothers and simply watched them.

I really wonder why more parents don't encourage skills like this. [/quote]

I wonder that too.  To be perfectly honest, that list seemed like a "given" to me.  I did actively teach my kids these skills from very early on.  It just made life easier (albeit much slower) when the child can do these things when the "I do it!" phase hits.

Currently my youngest - 20 months old - can put on and take off her own shoes, eat unaided with a fork and spoon, drinks from an open cup, walks into classes and places we go on her own. We've started potty training and are teaching her to get dressed herself.  [/quote]

That's great, but again, kids develop very differently.  Not all of them even have "I do it" phases.  (Mine didn't until past 4!)  Kids are all different, and this preschool is pretty ridiculous to claim that 2.5 year olds "must" be able to do skills that only a few kids on one far end of the bell curve can do at that age.  The school either doesn't actually mean that list, or has no clue about appropriate child development expectations.  Plus, it's not written in stone that achieving "independence" in these goals must be anyone's #1 parenting goal. I didn't really care if my kid potty trained before 3 or put his clothes on himself by 2.5.  Just not a parenting value of mine.  I spent my time and energy on other parenting goals that were more important to me.  [/quote]

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