Home Life

I like the Montesorri approach to promoting independence of having everything at the child height and accessible. We haven't quite got onto the clothes side of things yet but I have rearranged her drawers so she know what is where and I offer her a couple of options each morning.

But I'm quite pleased with how well the pantry is working at the momement. I was fed up with her raiding my baking shelves as they were just at her height so I moved that to the backs dn changed the shelf to Mischief's shelf. 

Her plates, bowls and cups are here and she chooses (when she's not in a contrary mood) ones for each meal. On this shelf is also her cereal so she can choose which one breakfast and six boxes with snacks in. These are usually things like apricots, prunes, dates, sultanas, breadsticks, mixed cereal, mini cheese biscuits. She knows to choose only one a day and if we are at home there's fresh fruit, toast, scotch pancakes and crumpets to choose from too. We dropped the afternoon snack as she wasn't eating dinner and this seems to be working well. 

I'm really pleased with how well this is working and already seems to be building her independence as she now pours her cereal too. I think we may have to invest in some Mischief sized tubs to make this easier.

She also makes her bed each morning and puts her dirty clothes in the washing bin. She tidies her toys before moving on to the next one (mostly), helps me wash up and does a pretty good job of washing herself in the bath or shower.