Tuesday, May 7, 2013

filling the gaps...

The more I interact with T the more I see that there are gaps. Gaps in his development. Gaps in his life.
For example yesterday:
I put T on a bicycle with training wheels. He didn't come with a bike and said he had never had one before. He sat on the bike and started complaining that it wasn't working. He just thought it would go. So at 5 years old he is having to learn to pedal. A very frustrating thing for him. I had to physically move his feet one at a time in the right direction to get him going. He progressed to being able to push the pedals for a couple of cycles and then his feet would automatically go in the opposite direction and come to an abrupt stop. Which frustrated him to no end. He would yell that there was something wrong with the bike.
He will just need practice to get used to having his feet go round and round continously. We've practiced twice yesterday. We have to keep it short as he gets frustrated easily. We go a couple of blocks away to a paved church parking lot. We were going to go to a third time but he drove off the sidewalk and broke a plastic part of one of his trainingwheels.
I got a new training wheel for him this morning so maybe we will get a chance to practise again tonight

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