Your Three to Four Year Old By the time your child has
reached her third year, you may find that she is a much more
pleasant person to be around, and that she no longer succumbs to the
frequent 'tantrum attacks', so often seen a couple of months back.
Her willingness to learn and need for information is great at this
age - she should be able to carry out simple requests and follow
commands; use short sentences and identify many objects.
Most of the skills which were acquired during the first and second
year of her life, are now being put into practice. She will enjoy
energetic games and those which involve adventure, as well as
imaginative play and 'pretend' games.
Physical Skills:
- Able to run around with a mouthful of food.
- Able to jump over a sleeping cat without causing injury - to
himself.
- Capable of climbing to the top of cupboards.
- Mastered the act of trimming the doll's eyelashes and glueing
his masterpieces onto wallpaper.
- Helps with the laundry by putting his soiled shoes into the
tumble drier.
- Capable of eating a packet of sweets after just having refused
dinner.
Intellectual Skills:
- Able to draw pictures on the furniture using chocolate icing.
- Now able to watch television for four hours without dozing
off.
- Capable of digging for worms using your silver cutlery.
- Capable of successfully convincing her mother that she really
is to sick to attend school.
- Insists on wearing her oldest most tattiest outfit and shoes
that should have long been passed down, to go shopping in.
- Delights in coating the walls with wet toilet paper or simply
adding a whole roll to her bath water.
Social Skills:
- Refuses to share, even though they aren't his toys.
- Enjoys playing games like 'hide and seek' in a crowded
shopping centre.
- 'Thank-you' is a word used only when in the company of her
mother and not in a room filled with guests.
- Capable of stealing - intentionally.
- Begins to say "I hate you mommy" in moments of anger.
- Absorbs foul language far easier than other words.
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