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The other day my daughter was helping me get groceries out of the car, she comes out and flexes her arms telling me how strong she is. I watch her as she proceeds to reach into the car and grab the gallon of milk, from the minute she picked it up she struggled pretty significantly to carry it into the house. She did OK for a little while, but before she even got out of the garage she started shaking with effort and having a hard time holding it up. And she wasn’t able to lift the milk up higher than her lower chest, so she couldn’t get it up on the counter. And she was using both of her hands and all of her body weight. Is this normal? Or should she be able to do this without any issue? The reason I’m asking is because a little gallon of milk honestly isn’t very heavy.
Today my other daughter wanted to help us set the table. showed us that she wasn’t even strong enough to bring the plates over to the table, and when we gave her some silverware to put on the table, she wasn’t tall enough to even put them on the table. Yet here she is claiming that she is really tall and did a really good job.
In your opinion, should Kids be able to do this? A gallon of milk honestly isn’t heavy at all, neither our plates. I just want to get y’all’s opinion here?
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