Yay, so wonderful to hear that Felix is happy in school now! What a difference it makes, to have teachers who actually understand and sympathize with children. I hope Julian can go to that school too, when it's time.
'Ergotherapy' may or may not make any difference. I had a lot of it as a child; it was very frustrating, and it did not change my awkward-looking pen grip - which didn't prevent me from having nice handwriting, or from writing incessantly by hand till I switched to an electric typewriter in college. This site is a good one for handwriting problem solutions - I note with approval that one of their main recommendations is to teach the kid to type as early as feasible.
Oh, St. Martin's Day lanterns! My daughter's Waldorf school did that every year; it was always so fun. LOL, except that my husband was not impressed by either the festivities or the other parents: that school was full of Rudolf Steiner True Believers, who could be quite full of.... woo. But the lanterns were always a treat
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Seriously! He now doesn't want to be picked up before his kindergarten closes (and would stay longer if it was open longer), which I wouldn't have thought possible a few months ago. Julian will probably be able to go there - the management already knows him, after all - but it also means lots of additional costs, not to mention the additional driving. So I'm very much tempted to give the other local kindergarten a try. Except then we may not be able to get into the other kindergarten if it doesn't work out. Aaargh.
Felix can type already (his first attempts at writing were on my computer keyboard, I have to admit) and only taught himself to "draw" letters after that, so I'm not sure that typing hasn't contributed to the problem! Thing is, though, I suspect that as soon as Felix needs to write more and faster, he'll see the point of gripping the pen differently. (He does know how it works; he just is used to his "wrong" way, so he prefers that.) Currently, he doesn't need to write at all, and when he does write, he can take all the
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My mum didn't allow my little brother to have a barbie doll, which excluded him from a lot of games (barbie goes rock climbing, barbie examines caves,...) that my sister and me played. So one day I took all my pocket money and bought him a barbie. (omg biggest drama ever!) And guess what: nothing terrible happened to him. Although he liked dressing up as a princess as a kid. He didn't even turn gay or something ;) And he's a mechanical engineer now...
The other kid's reaction was really really really super cool though. I wouldn't have expected something like this to happen at my school times - so my mom was probably right at trying to protect my brother from evil reactions of other kids. I wish she had tried to protect me too from such reactions on strange clothes and colour combinations I had to wear when I was in primary school or even Gymnasium...
My brother used to play with my dolls just as I used to play with his cars. The LEGO and Playmobil and train sets belonged to both of us, anyway. :)
Wasn't that the best thing ever. I don't even know whether he acted out of some (conscious) sense of justice, or whether that was pure instinct. Either way, what a natural mediator!
Yeah, it's strange how parents can be so very keen on protecting their kids from trouble/misinterpretations in some fields, and completely oblivious to others. I don't remember any issues of this sort in elementary school, to be fair! Nobody batted an eye if you were wearing Mommy's sloppily knitted sweaters and patched jeans. The transition to Gymnasium was really jarring, though, because brands and style really mattered there and I knew nothing whatsoever about "proper" teenage taste. (Neither did my mom, which didn't help...)
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'Ergotherapy' may or may not make any difference. I had a lot of it as a child; it was very frustrating, and it did not change my awkward-looking pen grip - which didn't prevent me from having nice handwriting, or from writing incessantly by hand till I switched to an electric typewriter in college. This site is a good one for handwriting problem solutions - I note with approval that one of their main recommendations is to teach the kid to type as early as feasible.
Oh, St. Martin's Day lanterns! My daughter's Waldorf school did that every year; it was always so fun. LOL, except that my husband was not impressed by either the festivities or the other parents: that school was full of Rudolf Steiner True Believers, who could be quite full of.... woo. But the lanterns were always a treat ( ... )
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Felix can type already (his first attempts at writing were on my computer keyboard, I have to admit) and only taught himself to "draw" letters after that, so I'm not sure that typing hasn't contributed to the problem! Thing is, though, I suspect that as soon as Felix needs to write more and faster, he'll see the point of gripping the pen differently. (He does know how it works; he just is used to his "wrong" way, so he prefers that.) Currently, he doesn't need to write at all, and when he does write, he can take all the ( ... )
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The other kid's reaction was really really really super cool though. I wouldn't have expected something like this to happen at my school times - so my mom was probably right at trying to protect my brother from evil reactions of other kids. I wish she had tried to protect me too from such reactions on strange clothes and colour combinations I had to wear when I was in primary school or even Gymnasium...
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Wasn't that the best thing ever. I don't even know whether he acted out of some (conscious) sense of justice, or whether that was pure instinct. Either way, what a natural mediator!
Yeah, it's strange how parents can be so very keen on protecting their kids from trouble/misinterpretations in some fields, and completely oblivious to others. I don't remember any issues of this sort in elementary school, to be fair! Nobody batted an eye if you were wearing Mommy's sloppily knitted sweaters and patched jeans. The transition to Gymnasium was really jarring, though, because brands and style really mattered there and I knew nothing whatsoever about "proper" teenage taste. (Neither did my mom, which didn't help...)
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