My second grader also doesn't know how to tie his shoes (because all his shoes are Velcro) or ride a bike (because he has a scooter) and I need someone to convince me why I need to force this issue!
My second grader also doesn't know how to tie his shoes (because all his shoes are Velcro) or ride a bike (because he has a scooter) and I need someone to convince me why I need to force this issue!
I mean if you don't have something to be low key worried about are you even alive?? And for bigger kids you can get away with shoes with hidden stretchy laces.
I do know someone who outsourced teaching their kid to ride a bike to some sort of camp. I don't know how I feel about that--probably genius, but then they missed out on the experience of their husband hollering at their kid crying on the sidewalk, and why would you want to skip that precious memory?
My kid did learn to ride a bike camp and she still hated it, and a teenage counselor at circus camp taught shoe tying bc the other option was tying shoes for the child because they required tie shoes at the camp. Just now in seventh grade she really got the hang of shoe tying, from another kid.
I think they are good skills, but donтАЩt have a deadline to learn them.
I was talking about this with the OTs I was interviewing. I think anything where a kid has to mirror you is hard and with shoe tying, there are so many ways to do it! And also usually shoe tying is done in a "come on lets go!!" situation so it's hard to teach without getting stressed.
My second grader also cannot tie shoes because velcro and we have never attempted to teach her!! I have a hard time finding the urgency to teach her.
She also canтАЩt ride a bike without training wheels. We sent her to bike camp and it did not succeed. She just is absolutely not ok with the wiggles you get as you get to balanced and moving and has decided she does not have to be ok with it or need to ride a bike.
My second grader also doesn't know how to tie his shoes (because all his shoes are Velcro) or ride a bike (because he has a scooter) and I need someone to convince me why I need to force this issue!
I mean if you don't have something to be low key worried about are you even alive?? And for bigger kids you can get away with shoes with hidden stretchy laces.
I do know someone who outsourced teaching their kid to ride a bike to some sort of camp. I don't know how I feel about that--probably genius, but then they missed out on the experience of their husband hollering at their kid crying on the sidewalk, and why would you want to skip that precious memory?
My kid did learn to ride a bike camp and she still hated it, and a teenage counselor at circus camp taught shoe tying bc the other option was tying shoes for the child because they required tie shoes at the camp. Just now in seventh grade she really got the hang of shoe tying, from another kid.
I think they are good skills, but donтАЩt have a deadline to learn them.
I was talking about this with the OTs I was interviewing. I think anything where a kid has to mirror you is hard and with shoe tying, there are so many ways to do it! And also usually shoe tying is done in a "come on lets go!!" situation so it's hard to teach without getting stressed.
My second grader also cannot tie shoes because velcro and we have never attempted to teach her!! I have a hard time finding the urgency to teach her.
She also canтАЩt ride a bike without training wheels. We sent her to bike camp and it did not succeed. She just is absolutely not ok with the wiggles you get as you get to balanced and moving and has decided she does not have to be ok with it or need to ride a bike.