Originally Posted by Essentialrose1:
Thanks for the input. We are still trying to figure out how we want to handle all the things that come with infants & toddlers. Making accommodations is nice but gets out of hand. Mom actually cried when I told her that I'm trying to get her daughter to hold a spoon & that she refused. She cried that they don't do it at home so basically acted like I abused her but trying to get her to grab it. WE taught her how to actually HOLD her bottle when she started with us as 11 months. They never even had her try. She wouldn't grip it at all & she's totally capable. We got her to do it in 3 days (still held her in our laps at the time). I might have to follow some of these advices & enforce a policy.
Sounds like mom wants to keep little one a baby. That is detrimental to the child's development and I would tell mom that. It will cause little one big problems in school and with daycare, because providers don't want to deal with that.