Posts Tagged ‘Fine Motor Skills’
Using a Fork has Never been a Priority
This morning my son used a fork to eat his breakfast. I didn’t ask him to use a fork. Honestly, I don’t even know if I gave him a fork. He must have grabbed it off of the counter. See, he was eating waffles and sausage. And in our house, when you have a child that struggles with fine motor, waffles and sausage can be a finger food. I wasn’t motivating him to use a fork. I didn’t do hand over hand either. I didn’t remind him after every bite.…
Read MoreFine Motor Skills in Toddlers
There are so many different pieces of Cooper’s delays that I often just lump them together because I get so overwhelmed when I think about each part individually. But now that Sawyer is here and developing on a typical path I can’t believe how many things I should have noticed. Cooper met all of his beginning milestones right on time and because he met all of these milestones on time I really didn’t pay attention to the rest. Holding his head up, rolling over, sitting up, crawling, standing, walking and then…
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