Seven year old cannot swing by himself

[ButWhyNot]

That's the problem, really. DS sits on a swing, and cannot power himself higher by just kicking his legs back and forth. He just can't get the rhythm right, and gets nowhere.

I admit it has me worried. I've not noticed any other children at the playground who CANNOT swing. I wouldn't mind if he didn't WANT to, but it's really that he cannot.

Does anyone else's child have this problem? It's driving me mildly nuts.

For what it's worth, he's not great at catching/kicking balls and stays as far away from athletic team sports as possible. Though he is a strong swimmer and likes running/jumping/climbing, which he does lots of!

Could he be mildly dyspraxic? (sorry, cannot spell it).

My dd can't either, she also can't ride a bike. She gets good reports in PE, but at sports day is destined to be in the last 3. I don't think she has dyspraxia or anything, she is just not well endowed in the physical skills department.

Luckily she has skills in other areas, I don't think any of my children are destined to be athletes, not the right gene pool .

Actually I have just looked up the dyspraxia checklist, she meets hardly any of those tbh, my ds1 though hmmmm.

Can you have dyspraxia without the social difficulties? My ds1 meets a couple of the criteria, mainly hand flapping when excited, poor fine motor skills and the temper tantrums thing.

He is fine and very popular at nursery though, can ride a scooter and bike and engages in creative play. He did have a speech delay, but never stops talking overcame that. I have always had a slight concern about him though .

Actually he ticks a lot of boxes on the dyspraxia checklist. I'd checked a couple years before and thought not, because he also has lots of friends at school, has no language difficulties, and his handwriting is pretty good. He can ride a bike very well, and scooter.

So what is mildly dyspraxic?? Coinoperated girl possibly we need another thread now to investigate dyspraxia!