There’s a new survey out that asked parents and guardians to name the hardest skills to teach young children . . . and you KNOW we wanted to your input as well!
According to the survey, the top three hardest skills to teach youngin’s were — tying their shoelaces . . . whistling . . . and eating with a fork and knife.
The full top ten list showed:
1. Tying their shoelaces.
2. Whistling.
3. Eating with a fork and knife.
4. Riding a bike.
5. Telling time.
6. Buttoning a button.
7. Swimming.
8. Properly brushing their teeth.
9. Trying different foods.
10. Writing their name.
Skills that just missed the Top Ten were — blowing their nose . . . making their bed . . . learning left and right . . . counting money . . . and washing dishes.
In our question to you on Facebook, we kind of opened it up to not just skills, but hardest things to teach little ones in general.
While Jai totally agreed with “whistling” being something that would be super difficult to teach young children because, “how do you even explain that? your lips to one thing while your cheeks get involved in another way, then your tongue is posed in a controrted way along some of your teeth and it’s not as easy as ‘just putting your lips together and blowing.'” . . . Fletch felt the hardest thing to teach would be “how to trust and believe someone (Jesus) you can’t physically see. Beyond that, just how to take time to have others understand they are valued. Potty training is also a tough one right now.”
Beaver Country family Kammie King, JoBeth Norwood Robertson, Morgan Neubauer, and Martha Powell all agreed that teaching little ones how to blow their nose was a pretty big task.
Robin Washam says teaching kids at a young age that not everyone is kind and learning to be OK with it is difficult.
Check out more answers, and weigh in with your own on our Facebook Page!
(Yahoo)
