why do boys, when taking their socks/undies off have to throw them as far as poss!!!

Must be a guy thing!

I'm just thinking back to my own DSs - they used to take off undies and socks and kick them into touch

I just think of it as an extension of all the sports they do.

Both my boys had laundry baskets in their bedrooms and until the day they left home hardly ever put their stuff in them,all around them yes on top of wardrobe/under beds/bottom of wardrobe (of which you had to open the door first !! ) some stray socks even one time ended up out of the window and onto the patio in the garden for some reason so biker your little man is not alone.

Good idea Alie I shall mention it to his mum..lol...

If you gave him a basketball net to aim at, you could catch the socks underneath......?

Impossible to answer. But - we once had a cat who was a sock carrier. She searched every corner of the house looking for stray socks (and pants) and deposited them in the bathroom. If she couldn't find any at home she wondered the neighbourhood in her quest. I ended up with some mighty strange items.

I was helping to undress/ dress children at the Reception Class nativity this week.

It still amazes me, even after a whole lifetime of working in Primary schools, that some children (not always a gender issue!) are totally unaware of how to go through this process and yet others get themselves sorted and clothes put in a tidy pile ready for after the performance seemingly automatically.

Others are wandering about in pants and vest on a fruitless search for their clothes which they have no memory of leaving anywhere and struggle, once they have located some clothes to even attempt to put them on!

Trying to decidehow much of this is innate or is learned!