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bank_of_slate

Ames wrote: »

Dangers, I love semolina but I can't eat rice pudding. When I was in infant school they told us that if we stirred the jam in we'd have to eat it all. I stirred mine in (I mean, isn't that the point of the jam?) then found a big yellow non-rice lump in it and refused to eat any more. I was kept in all break having a battle of wills with them and I've never been able to eat it since!

Hi Ames, Travelodge is booked! :T :T (Saturday night only)
...Linda xx

spud30

sallyx wrote: »

Wow samster thats amazing for you...what you going to spend it on..or save it for

B is a good girl..im just really struggling with her school stuff. Spud you can help on this one too. She is very keen to read and happily is reading quite a few words and sound talks/reads the rest...homework this week is to read the sentence " a run in the sun". Instructions are to get them to sound words out and keep repeating them. Well I didn't have to do this as she read it straight away. Then it says get them to work out how each words is spelt and write them. She can spell the words but getting her to write them is like getting blood out of a stone. She hates writing...well when I am asking her to do it anyway. I know a lot of it is down to the fact she is still so young and probably struggles more with the fine motor skills, and also she is a perfectionist and tries to rub it out if its not perfect. She gets upset she can't do it and I just find it incredibly frustrating that her brain is way ahead of her physical ability. Now I sound like a right pushy crappy mother lol. I guess I just want to try and make things easier for her, how can I help her to practice fine motor skills without having to practise writing and put her off for life!

Right, my advice would be not to push it with the writing hun. She's sounding out her words, which is fab. Most kids her age are beginning to recognise the sounds at the start of a word, but for her to be able to sound out whole words is great.

Hama beads, colouring in, sewing, threading buttons/beads onto a lace. Anything like that will help to develop fine motor skills. Maybe have a quiet word with her teacher and explain her reluctance, see if it's just at home, or if she wont write in class either.

becky_rtw

Sally I know this doesnt answer your question exactly but I am one of those people who is also not blessed with fine motor skills

I found writing very difficult growing up - I still finding after writing for any length of time my hands and wrists ache...my mother just ignored it and kept on teaching me stuff I wanted to learn (like our usual Saturday trip to the museum). I never worried about it (although I often got told off for poor handwriting at school) because at the end of the day its so much more important in life to be articulate, kind, sensitive and have understanding of concepts that it is to be able to write neatly...

Just my thoughts of course

Ames

Sally, I know less than nothing about kids, but could you get her to draw pictures and then write her name on them, and label them 'mum' 'dad' 'sun' and stuff? Maybe buy her a 'special' pen, say one of those glittery gel pens, to use? Sorry if those are stupid ideas.

LouiseJ

ZTD wrote: »

No, no, no, no... Feel the fear and do it anyway.



You can. You just have to stop being a slave to the fear.

Thanks Zed, I have always seen myself as quite a bold person but never with my own needs IYSWIM:o

Give me someone to look after and develop and I can be the strongest person ever........funny isnt it

LouiseJ

bank_of_slate wrote: »

Hi Ames, Travelodge is booked! :T :T (Saturday night only)
...Linda xx

Ooo where are you two off to?

ZTD

LouiseJ wrote: »

Thanks Zed, I have always seen myself as quite a bold person but never with my own needs IYSWIM:o

Give me someone to look after and develop and I can be the strongest person ever........funny isnt it

Too many years of putting other people's needs before your own, so you're stricken with guilt about "selfishness" when the time comes for you.

Ames

bank_of_slate wrote: »

Hi Ames, Travelodge is booked! :T :T (Saturday night only)
...Linda xx

Yay! When do you want me to pay you, now or at the time, or shall I pay for the petrol?

Sammy, I'm just trying that now...

Ames

LouiseJ wrote: »

Ooo where are you two off to?

Bunny's party. Although I'm not actually sure where it is, just that it's midlands ish somewhere, I really should check it out properly!

becky_rtw

Glad you enjoyed run club Linda