Marie's Web Log

Thanks for the answers on the poll (see below). I will tell you why I was asking - because Amelia's daycare group leaders are teaching her to eat the first way (!) Yes folks, our three-year-old is being taught to eat peas and other unwieldy things by pushing them onto the back of her fork with her knife.

I find this hilarious, mostly because it is a very inefficient way for a small child to eat. In her latest report book, her group leader had written: "Amelia tends to use her fork only, holding it in the wrong hand, upside down." Well, maybe because that's how I eat! And though Ian insists that the first way is the "proper" way, I caught him eating the second way at home. I say it's a cultural thing, and shouldn't be subject to a value judgement - after all, there are plenty of cultures in which people don't use forks at all.

Dale, you're right about the potty training regression - or more accurately, lack of further progress. No more successes yet, though she does succeed in staying dry most of the day at daycare.