laces - a knotty problem ( se ei have done the home page link FOR them!!)

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how old was your kid when they coudl tie them properly

ds was taught by his OT at 7 but has conveniently forgotten. Am looking to get lace locks so he has more choice of shoe. Friend of mine refused to let her ds wear velcro to school so he learnt at 5.

oh god ds1 is paintful
and hes realyl dextrous normally

if they want to play football in their new boots they WILL learn quickly

(velcro good for school)

still on velcro at 6.5

dd1 taught at age 6 competent at 7.

She needed to learn so she could do her own dancing shoes at class when im not there, so soon get it mastered.

OT?

Aaaaagh. Aaaaaagh.

The horror, the horror Mr Kurtz.

Is there not some foolproof way to show them? DS2 and I in tears of a regular basis with the blardy football boots, which he doesn't want to wear or indeed every have to play football.

HIs OT didn't show us. He just said 'he'll get it eventually'

Sobs.

And I think ds1 just has an incredibly complicated knotting system, as opposed to bows.

we taught ds randomly one afternoon, he's 5. i was quite surprised when he got it. but he got a very nice pair of converse as a reward! now he's trying to tell the time....

Pleeeeeeeeeeease - OT??

Did you have some brilliant way of showing him hoxton, or is just completely marevellous? Of course he's marvellous, but how did you do it?

Oh sorry. Occupational Therapist.

OT = occupational therapist

ah well if the ot says hell get it eventiually
then great

i remember seeing this site raved about on here

Hmm. But he doesn't have to be here with the crying and the gnashing teeth. I wish he'd show him.

he just keeps going on about organization and frustration. Which is frustrating.

He's not that interested in us. We don't have to go back for 6 months.

Thank you

er, i was over the other side of the room, dp put in the hard work .

Can he come round? Can i pay him? If I promise to stand on the other side of the room?

I think I'm as useless as ds2 actually. We get our left and rights all muddled up and our fingers go all wooly and bendy and then we cry.

i will send you a double whammy of dp and ds & you & me & our dds can go shopping .

Oh god how marvellous. We shall have a Shoe Weekend. Dp stays behind here with dh and ds1 and ds2, and we skedaddle out with dds and buy vast amounts of unsuitable shoes without laces.

oooh yes. and handbags.