I was reading in FRUA tonight, and came across this post. It is about what a little girl did and didn't know when she finally came home. I thought I would pass it along:
My daughter peeled the batter off chicken nuggets. She wanted a big bowl to help wash her hair. No problem with the toilet or paper. Did not like pizza, peanut butter ( also make sure no allergies to peanuts or don't serve if you don't know), any soup that wasn't chicken stock based or light in color. She loved breakfast sausages even more than bananas. Opened every drawer in sight but didn't touch anything inside. Had to be taught how to cross a street or be careful in a parking lot....hold hands even for older children. Sprayed a whole can of air freshner in her bedroom all at onece because it smelled so good...ugh!
One of the hardest things for me was that she didn't understand food preparation. She was used to the food appearing and being ready to eat. So when I would start getting things out to cook, she got very frustrated seeing food but not being able to eat it yet. More so when it was something she really liked. She pretty much wanted to go inside the refrigerator and hang out and eat. Didn't understand why she couldn't do that. Didn't seem to understand that the food would be there later and we could get more when that was gone. Hot stoves were not something she knew about.
She had never touched or smelled a real flower growing in the ground.
She loved jumping on the trampoline
She was not very happy about seat belts but complied after I would pull over and just wait for it to go back on.
She didn't like TV because she couldn't understand it...exception was young childrens cartoons ( Teletubbies, Dora, Dragon Tales, stuff like that. She liked cooking shows after she figured out what cooking was. She loved listening to music. We used only on CD of childrens songs over and over so she eventually got some of the lyrics and could sing along.
She got frustrated when we went to the park. She perceived every child was playing with each other but not with her. I solved this by arranging for a younger child to go with us and they played together. Language wasn't needed and she was very good with little one.
She did not like the feel of socks and shoes. Mostly they wore thread bare socks with sandals. We went with crocs because flip flops hurt her toes.
She could use a knife by herself but not a steak knife ( 4 1/2 years old).
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