It depends on the age.

You’re not asking them to “put on your shoes” you’re asking them to “go find your shoes, bring your shoes to sit down, sit down with shoes, put shoe one on foot, put shoe two on foot.” It’s like telling an adult “go build a house” and being confused when they can’t just do it.

That’s a lot of shit to hold in your head, and all the while the toy you walked past is interesting, the cat just meowed and ran past you, there’s a spinny thing on your rain boots, and oh look some sunlight is moving around a little!

It’s just too much for tiny brains to process. You’ve lost them after “go find your shoes”.

Give them small tasks one at a time. Build out that task board as they are capable, but remember that the thing you see as “just one thing” is very likely ”ten to 100 things” that you’ve boiled down to a single instruction.

It’s not though.

The centralized concept we now call parenting didn’t exist, but that’s only because prior to around 1920 there were as many forms of “parenting” as there were cultures. The idea that parents never raised their children before the early 20th century is just ridiculous. It still happened, it just wasn’t called parenting.

Is this meant to be a poorly executed April fools joke?