Originally Posted by SunshineMama:
Well noted...
I believe Country and I were speaking in the context of a perfectly normal child who does not know how to tie their shoes due to lazy parenting, not a child with a medical condition (neither of which are the child's fault).
I'm not scoffing or snubbing the child- but the laziness of the parent who never bothered to teach a fully capable child.
I agree, I have a boy who is 11 and delayed and he is learning to tie his shoes, which is great for him because he really wants to learn. But In my ds's class many kids don't know how to tie their shoes because it takes time to learn. Its like riding a bike too, I'm finding kids are older before their training wheels are taken off, oh wait, I don't see to many kids riding a bike. My ydd was 4 when she learned to ride a 2 wheeler, at the age of 5 she learned to tie her shoes and my son was 7 at the time (shamelessly I forgot to teach my ds thats why he was 7)