The Simple Rule We Use to Teach Our 2-Year-Old Daughter About Responsibility

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http://www.popsugar.com/moms/How-Teach-Your-Toddler-Responsibility-42208741#comments

Everything we do for you, you have to help.

• Need a diaper change? You throw away the diaper. Exceptions made for diarrhea.
• Just had a bath? Put your soiled clothes in the laundry bin.
• Need your milk? Hold your own bottle.
• Want to go out? Take your shoes out of the cupboard and put them on.
• Bedtime? Prepare your own bed.
• Want a bedtime story? There's the pile of books; bring us the one you want.
• Want to eat at the table like a grown-up? Bring your own plastic plate and utensils like a grown-up.
• Going on holiday with us? You get to carry your own backpack with a couple of diapers.
• Spilt your milk/water? There's the cloth. Clean it up, please.
• Your baby sister needs a diaper change. Bring us her diapers. We've got to the point where she could tell the different sizes apart, and she'd remind me that she wears size L whereas her little sis wears size M.

I thought this was interesting, I feel I should have done this with my 8 year old nephew. He flips out when I ask him to put his stuff up. Were my 4 year old nephew does so much on his own and doesn't even complain. I'm not sure his mom would have ever been on board. But I might start doing this with the baby.