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When did your kid learn to tie their shoes? |
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Posts: 12347 (07/02/09 8:26 PM) Registered user |
Because I'm reading that it's not uncommon for eight or ten year olds to not know how to tie their shoes. WTF is with that?
My little one learned when she was four and a half which I know is early, but TEN? |
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 viva la blonde |
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Posts: 2473 (07/02/09 8:27 PM) |
if they can't by first grade they need to go back to kindergarten
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MMMadcow |
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Posts: 6860 (07/02/09 8:27 PM) Registered User |
Both of mine learned before they started school. So before they were 5.
Back then they had those shitty velcro kid shoes. I blame velcro for the fall of todays youth. |
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Posts: 969 (07/02/09 8:27 PM) Registered user |
Just buy your pesky kids loafers.
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Snuffy Smiff |
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Posts: 2024 (07/02/09 8:28 PM) Registered user |
I learned just in time to start first grade. So I'm only half-retarded, as I see it.
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MMMadcow |
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Posts: 6862 (07/02/09 8:30 PM) Registered User |
Show of hands...who had to wear saddle shoes and a uniform? *shudders*
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Shemeji Yabara |
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Posts: 612 (07/02/09 8:30 PM) Non Sequitur |
Stupidest 3rd ever
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Posts: 8611 (07/02/09 8:54 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
MMMadcow wrote: :: raises hand :: Dark green wool in winter. Pastel colors in spring. |
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Posts: 25037 (07/02/09 8:55 PM) Registered user |
My child learned how to untie shoes at the age of 7...months.
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sealbach |
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Posts: 5081 (07/02/09 9:04 PM) Registered user |
when did you stop posting articles/editorials?
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Posts: 3637 (07/02/09 9:09 PM) |
They haven't yet.
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For Petes Sake |
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Posts: 577 (07/02/09 9:58 PM) |
I could read at 4 picking the horsies with my dad in Scotland and was a Senior in college at 19 but couldn't tie my shoes until I was 11.
I did the double loop thing until I was like 15 then I finally got the normal tie. I think it isnt brains as much as common sense of which - as many posters would agree - I am somewhat lacking. |
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Posts: 3178 (07/02/09 10:03 PM) Registered user |
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Posts: 2321 (07/02/09 10:12 PM) Registered User |
One of my foster kiddos was 7 and he didn't know how to tie shoes. He had always had the velcro kind.
I got him shoes with laces for his birthday and taught him how to tie them - it only took him a couple of tries before he got it. |
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Posts: 695 (07/02/09 10:14 PM) |
My boy learned when he was 5. It was fun teaching him because we had this little Bantam book or some such that had all kinds of fasteners all over it and
inside it.
Never went the velcro route because I didn't want him to struggle with the inevitable Chuck Taylor's later in life. |
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ObservingEgo |
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Posts: 8615 (07/03/09 12:30 AM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
I did the double loop thing too, but I thought that I had invented it. |
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Pahrump Mania |
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Posts: 4211 (07/03/09 1:01 AM) Registered user |
Daughter before Kindergarten, son in Kindergarten. All credit goes to my wife, I would have kept them in velcro a lot longer.
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Posts: 18436 (07/03/09 1:05 AM) 10 per day, bitches! |
my kids will learn all that shit by the time they're 3 if not earlier. mark my words.
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Posts: 1445 (07/03/09 1:16 AM) |
who needs to tie your shoes when you got crocs.
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Posts: 1853 (07/03/09 6:21 AM) Registered User |
i learned in kindergarten. There were a bunch of 'must do's' before we could graduate to grade 1.
Tying shoes, knowing the alphabet, and counting to 30 were all on the list. I never did the two-loop thing. We were taught to make a loop, do a wrap around, and pull through. |
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Posts: 1297 (07/03/09 6:46 AM) |
by 3 hahaha good luck, 5 yrs for my son.
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