How does involving my toddler in everyday household chores help him?
Children can sense that household routines keep the family functioning smoothly and are central to its peaceful well-being. Thus, if your toddler helps out, he feels safe, secure, and proud of his helpfulness, and considers himself a very important member of the family. Household tasks have infinite possibilities for enhancing your child’s feelings of pride at his usefulness, his feelings of family security, his cognitive competence in learning shapes, counting, and recognizing labels and orderings of size. And surely he will bask in these many intimate interactions with his mommy or daddy. Here are some easy tasks for him to help with. • Sorting laundry into piles of socks, underwear, towels, washcloths, etc. is a wonderful task that helps improve a toddler’s perceptual skills. For example, he’ll need to spot which sock patterns are the same in order to make a pair. When he finds a washcloth and puts it in one pile and a face towel in another one, he is sharpening his classification a
