Can your 9yr old.....

[spottyshoes]

Tell the time and tie their shoelaces?

Just wondered if it was reasonable to expect them to be able to do these things by that age?

Yes my DS can do both - the time for ages now, and the laces out of necessity this year as we couldn't find any velcro school shoes this year in his size.

My 9 yr old can tell the time, tie his laces and ride a bike ( with gears)

My 7 yr old can tell digital time but struggles with analogue, has never tied shoelaces and can ride a bike (with gears)

My 9 yr old learnt to tie his laces when he needed to do football boots, but the 7 yr old just leaves them laced up and forces his foot in

My 7 year old can do both. But he is VERY advanced . He also knows and can spell a wide variety of swear words.

Hell yes, I agree with Grammaticus. My DDs learnt to tie laces aged 5 or so and the time gradually between 5 and 7.

laces, yes, the girls learnt early because of having to with dancing (tap shoes and ballet shoes with ribbons), and I made sure DS1 learnt last year when he was 7 with football boots. DS2 is currently learning, but struggling.......he is 6 tho.

time.............hard for them all really as most places have digital clocks and so it is easy for them regarding that, with actuall clocks it is harder. They can tell which hour it is (even my 6yr old), but minute wise is harder especially on roman numeral clocks. pretty much tho they try and geet it right.

riding bikes...........all learnt that stupidly early. DS2 was riding properly by the time he was 4 as he had a new bike on his 4th birthday because he could ride with two wheels.

the thing I am interested to know tho is...........do any of yours know their left from right, and do you as their mums, as I untaught myself teaching them (when I put their shoes on and they were facing me I obviosuly taught them the opposite to myself, and now cannot tell left/right at all.............VER embarrassing when driving and someone directing me!

Laces yes for 8 and 7yo.

Telling time not sure for 8yo, she's chronically scatty, but yes for 7yo.

Bike riding, oh yes I like this one cos all of mine have been excellent cyclists from the age of 3 or 4. Cycling we can do. And let's face it, when the oil runs out and we all move into a post-oil agrarian economy, cycling is going to be very useful. More than time telling or laces.

Ooh missed bike riding, yes, I taught DS1 and DS2 to ride their bikes when they were 6 and am very proud of the fact that it was me, and not DH, who did it .

DS3 (autistic) may be more of a challenge though .

My DD (4.3) got her first watch (a pink sparkly Swatch) for her third birthday (a very inspired present from her normally very uninspiring grandfather) and she adores it and is making good progress with telling the time.

DS is 9yo, does NOT have SN, but must be some kind of defective (I presume from previous posts) since he cannot tie his shoelaces.
Of course, he's never had a pair of lace-up shoes, so he's not exactly had any reason to learn, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.

DS can tell time, has been pretty good at it for over a year now. Rode a bike w/out stabilisers at age 4yo

Actually, yes indeed, spottyshoes! - finding it hard to articulate (ie, speech sound problems) is exactly of a piece with finding little fiddly slippery twisty things like laces hard. All to do with fine muscle control. (And that, often, goes with muddly spatial sense - which would of course make it difficult to "read" the angles of clock hands.)

I was wondering as my ds has persistent articulation stuff going on - wonder if he will ever lose his lisp, eg - and tying laces was a way longer road for him than it was for dd.

Piano-playing helps. As does learning to type, and Lego.

Yes to telling time#

sort of to shoe -laces...

ds1's yr3 teacher set them a target that all could tie their shoelaces by the end of the first term (so ds1 was not yet 7.5). It was painful with ds1 we showed him and he would try and try and try and get frustrated, and not be able to do it, then not accept help, then after 10 mins of trying he would manage it, but they'd be tied so badly they would come undone 10 mins later! He really didn't 'master' the art until he was about 10.

With ds2 I showed him once when he was 7, and he grasped it straight away and never needed to be shown it again!

yes to all of them, but I don't think their time is as confident as it should be.

shoelaces - my 7 year old learnt about a year ago - because he had some lace up shoes - but since most shoes aren't any more (for kids at least) it is a bit of a dying art.

I remember having a shoe lace cardboard thing at infants school - so presumably we all learnt by age 6-7 back in the 70s !

As for learning to tell the time - my 7 year old I think can do the basics but is still vague with it. My 6 year olds are similar. Somehow they seem resistant to learning this (again I remember doing it in infants school). Mind you my kids are resistant to learning anything much from me if I try and teach them !

Shoelaces - yes, but sometimes takes a while

Time - yes

Dd 9 at the end of march could tie her laces at 3 1/2.

Understood telling time a few months ago.

I was a teenager before I could comfortably tell the time without having to think about it.

I don't have dyslexia or any learning disabilities.

dd can, but i couldnt at the age of 10 !

shoe laces, hmm, she has no shoes with laces but wants some. she was practising, about a year ago, aged 8.

8-9 yr old boy can tell time roughly, but not tie shoelaces or his school tie for that matter.

Time yes (all my 3, aged 5-7-9, can), shoelaces no. He?s never had shoes with laces y?see, except walking boots.

He is a bit cack-handed tbh and I think it?s well time (lol) he cd do his laces. We are working on it. I blame Velcro shoes. I am sure I could do mine well before this.

WRT time telling ? this is sthg they learn in school in yr 2-3-4 IIRC. So I would be somewhat surprised at a 9yo who couldn?t do it.

I just have high standards! DS2 still peed round the toilet this morning though, so I obviously have some way to go.