The strugle to tie a shoe....fine motor skill fight.

I know I was going to catch you guys up on the history of my struggles until this point to teach my twice exceptional child. But, I was just so excited and proud of all the accomplishments he has been making lately, that I just had to jump ahead...and hopefully this first ever video I am about to post will help your child weather struggling or not, learn to tie his/her own shoe.

I made the video a bit long because I wanted to show the evolution of finding what was right for our family. Maybe one of the other methods will help your child more than the one that finally helped mine, though most of my friends seem to like the finally method, the best. There are 4 different methods shown.

Why did I have to teach him this skill now? Because once your very tall child with big feet hits a certain size, you either have to choose tie shoes or ugly Velcro shoes. You could use 

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But, I don't know it was just something I just had to let him try and see if he can do. He is progressing so much with ABM. (I know I know I haven't told you what ABM is yet, it is coming and I promise I will come back and link that blog to this one when I finally write about the blessing that is ABM), that I had to see if it was possible and it is. I am so happy about it...so without further ado here is my youtube video on how to tie your shoes....later I may video my son doing it and link the video here too.

If you have any questions let me know. Hope you enjoy it, and I really hope in helps you to teach your child how to tie their shoes. Every Sunday I am still going to be posting my story up to this point in quick over views until I feel I have caught up, but in the mean time during the week, don't be surprised if I write a blog about what we are doing right now.