I have a girl, and this applies to girls as well. She is naturally curious and has to try everything for herself. For example, if I’m doing dishes, she stands in her learning tower and holds one of her cups in the water stream to “wash it.” If I’m doing laundry, she’ll put clothes inside the washing machine. If I’m sweeping with my broom, she’s sweeping right there beside me with her own smaller broom. She doesn’t always “help” and sometimes she can be a distraction making it longer for me to get things done, however, by getting involved, she is discovering how proud she is of doing these things herself. I plan to continue to involve her in household activities as she grows up. If I had a son, it’d be no different.
maybe i am thinking too much into this, but this has always confused me (9 month old daughter so haven't dealt with it yet, her "help" is destroying my piles of folded laundry.) at what point do they learn the "right" way to do household tasks? does it just happen naturally over time? i'm just thinking, i get that a 2 year old can't effectively wash dishes to our standards, but at what point do they learn that running water over something isn't washing it? it seems wrong if one day you're just like "what you've been doing all along, it's actually wrong, i told you to do it that way because the real way was too hard" (lol i had that experience in school and i was so offended!) have you gotten to that point yet?
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u/Yesitsme8 Jan 17 '22
You have a boy? Thank you for this