When your child is above 2 years old, you child may show you more and more independence and creativities. The little guy starts to make things proudly and show self-satisfaction on his work.

When my boy was about 2 and a half years old, one day he wanted to take a shower by himself. When bath time was coming, I took my son to the bath room. Suddenly, he said €I want to take shower myself€ and pushed me out of the bath room. It was out of my expectation. I said ok and I was glad to enjoying watching how he was taking batch for himself. Oh, he learnt a lot from the daily activities in the bath room. He knew how to turn on the water heater, take off his pants and t-shirts (my assistance is necessary), and turn on the water shower. He put himself under shower and played with the water.
I instructed him to wash hair, back, arm and legs and so on with shower foam. He enjoyed his experience excitingly. Finally, I made up his jobs and finished his shower. I could feel that my son was very happy of taking shower himself. He was very proud of doing that.
That gave me surprise of how good my boy was. I knew that he started to acquire the skills of doing many tasks. I should leave him the jobs he can do. Of course, you couldn't expect wonderful jobs at the beginning.

You may imagine how messy it is when you leave a two and a half child do some jobs. For example, the shower foam bottles are placed out of order in batch room when you leave him taking a shower himself; the rice will be all over the table during feeding himself; he may toss the t-shirt and pants in the wardrobe when folding clothes, etc,.
When your child starts to make the messy jobs like that, it is a good start. Your child can do such jobs excitingly with pride. Please let him do and encourage him to do. That will help him/her build up many skills during the practices early and properly. Such skills as gross motor, fine motor, cognitive development as well as language development.

As smart parents, please try to encourage your children to do what they can do. Don't ignore their any €great work or achievement€. The messy jobs will become nice and perfect if you give more patience, chance and time to them.

But if you ignore your child's €great works€, that may destroy their confidence and interest in taking tasks even those you assign to them. Why? Because they don't find it interested or draw attention and plaudit from you who are most important to them. Your recognition, praise and encouragement are the source of motivating your little kids do more and more.

Here are some advices when parents enjoy your child's shows.

€ Spend time with your little kids. You may not need to do anything. Just sit by him and watch what he is doing. Please don't pretend staying with you your child. He may feel upset if you ignore his job and his €great achievement€. Respond your child's question or laugh.

€ Be patient to see the messy things on the spot. Don't worry about the toys placed on the floor out of order. Don't worry about the messy bed. It is time to teach your child to be €responsible€. Request your child to put all the things in order after his €show€. It is time to help him establish the first habit of €putting things back after use€.

€ Leave your child show anything he want. Most of time, your child concerns his safety very much. Your child may jump onto the floor from the staircase when it is low. Your child may be very careful to walk along a floating bridge when there are no hand ribs. Yong kid has certain inherent sense about the safety. But it doesn't mean you can leave them without safety protection. Be the body guard of your child any time. You are not free to enjoy the show, especially when your child wants to act as Superman or Spiderman.

€ But don't praise you child excessively. Praise the good jobs and discourage the bad behavior. If not, you may bring your child into a bad habit.