l do the same 95% of the time, let them make the choices as to what they want to do, l also like to handle them for a little while somtimes, especially the young ones. Overall l prefer to let them come out and have the freedom of choice and l feel they respond very well to us opening the door for them, they know they get to make choices and not us always dictating how their time out will be spent. Right now Lily is in the hangout space where she has been all day, it is now 8pm and she wont want home until l head off to bed, only then is she happy to go back in but if l stay in the room, she will be at the door still saying let me out. Once l turn off the lights and go, she will settle down till she sees me again in the morning and then she is ready to start her day too.
l do the same 95% of the time, let them make the choices as to what they want to do, l also like to handle them for a little while somtimes, especially the young ones. Overall l prefer to let them come out and have the freedom of choice and l feel they respond very well to us opening the door for them, they know they get to make choices and not us always dictating how their time out will be spent.
Right now Lily is in the hangout space where she has been all day, it is now 8pm and she wont want home until l head off to bed, only then is she happy to go back in but if l stay in the room, she will be at the door still saying let me out. Once l turn off the lights and go, she will settle down till she sees me again in the morning and then she is ready to start her day too.