I thought I would be nice and take off the auto Disney music. Really... it was just driving me crazy when I was checking my blog.
Anyway, I have a question for all my mom friends out there. How did you make your kids learn to tie their shoes? Robyn was tying her shoes as soon as she turned 4 because she was very independent but as it looks now, I will need to go to college with Garrett to tie his shoes. We ALL have showed him a number of times but he refuses to try and fights it until we have to go somewhere and we end up doing it for him. Do I just make him walk around with his laces untied? We go to the bus stop at 12:25pm so I told him TV and computer are off at 12 and he was to work on tying his shoes until its time to go. Yesterday he screamed and cried until I finally had to do it to make the bus. I'm baffled, how can a kid not want to do this?? He will be 6 next month, this just seems ridiculous to me. This also refers to buttoning shirts too. There must be a trick to this boy that I'm not getting. Please, someone help me before I go insane.
About those shoes -- I would go with teaching Garrett the "double loop" method. It's cheating, but the result looks normal, and no one would ever know know. Just have him make a loop with the right and left lace (instead of just one loop). Then he should just tie the two loops into a knot. It will look like a perfect bow, and it will stay tied. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI am dealing with this with Elena. Actually she doesn't own any shoes with laces, but she will be starting kindergarten in the fall. I honestly showed Ethan two times how to tie and he caught on. Elena is a little more stubborn (2nd borns;p) I'll try that double loop thing and pass on any ideas I get to you!
ReplyDeleteMaybe try some bribe...I mean positive reinforcement. Like, for every 5 minutes he practices, he gets 5 on the computer...or 5 M&M's. Or maybe buy him a special treat the day he crosses over to being an independent shoe lace tier.
ReplyDeleteMolly, has not insterst yet! Hopefully over the summer.
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