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Thrice.
The first time, I very carefully didn't look as she bunny eared those laces into submission. "Connie! Look! I tied my shoes!" So we did a high five, and I watched as she did a slightly less thrilling bow on the next shoe.
By the time she tied the untied lace later (note to self - after she laces them, I must pull and double knot. She'll be double knotting herself, soon enough), it was old hat. She didn't remark on it in any way.
I did tell her she figured out shoe tying much earlier than I did, though I didn't say how much earlier. It's a little embarrassing, honestly. (Very nearly double digits, if you must know, and that's just for bunny ears! The other way took longer, at least partially because it was always badly explained to me. If people had just said it was only a variation on the square-knot tying I already knew... well, it still would have taken me a while. But perhaps not so long.)
The first time, I very carefully didn't look as she bunny eared those laces into submission. "Connie! Look! I tied my shoes!" So we did a high five, and I watched as she did a slightly less thrilling bow on the next shoe.
By the time she tied the untied lace later (note to self - after she laces them, I must pull and double knot. She'll be double knotting herself, soon enough), it was old hat. She didn't remark on it in any way.
I did tell her she figured out shoe tying much earlier than I did, though I didn't say how much earlier. It's a little embarrassing, honestly. (Very nearly double digits, if you must know, and that's just for bunny ears! The other way took longer, at least partially because it was always badly explained to me. If people had just said it was only a variation on the square-knot tying I already knew... well, it still would have taken me a while. But perhaps not so long.)
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Date: 2008-02-08 04:36 am (UTC)In kindergarten my friend knew how to tie her shoes, and she showed me the bunny ears method, but I couldn't remember it. I'd been shown the more complex way, and hadn't mastered it yet. When my siblings went to teach it to me again, I asked to learn using the other way, because I felt I had understood it better. They refused to show me the other way.
I'm vaguely guessing that maybe they didn't know it and instead of explaining that insisted the other way was better. Or maybe they firmly believed the other way is better. Whatever.
I said then I didn't want to learn at all. This was part of a general trend in that the teaching styles of pretty much everyone in my family worked horribly with my learning style. I learned well in school, but I was in misery whenever family members tried to teach me things, and I had strong associations with them teaching me things with frustration and pain. So, I simply refused. I insisted, forcibly, on velcro shoes as soon as I was able, and then I refused to wear anything else until I had absolutely no choice. Shoe-tying was not taught in school, so I didn't learn it in a safe, non-frustrating environment, so I just didn't pick it up for ages.
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Date: 2008-02-08 07:10 am (UTC)typing shoelaces the proper way
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Date: 2008-02-09 03:27 am (UTC)I learned to tie my shoes on my own, through imitation (at four and a half), so I'm not familiar with "being taught" lingo.
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Date: 2008-02-08 04:36 am (UTC)In kindergarten my friend knew how to tie her shoes, and she showed me the bunny ears method, but I couldn't remember it. I'd been shown the more complex way, and hadn't mastered it yet. When my siblings went to teach it to me again, I asked to learn using the other way, because I felt I had understood it better. They refused to show me the other way.
I'm vaguely guessing that maybe they didn't know it and instead of explaining that insisted the other way was better. Or maybe they firmly believed the other way is better. Whatever.
I said then I didn't want to learn at all. This was part of a general trend in that the teaching styles of pretty much everyone in my family worked horribly with my learning style. I learned well in school, but I was in misery whenever family members tried to teach me things, and I had strong associations with them teaching me things with frustration and pain. So, I simply refused. I insisted, forcibly, on velcro shoes as soon as I was able, and then I refused to wear anything else until I had absolutely no choice. Shoe-tying was not taught in school, so I didn't learn it in a safe, non-frustrating environment, so I just didn't pick it up for ages.
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Date: 2008-02-08 07:10 am (UTC)typing shoelaces the proper way
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Date: 2008-02-09 03:27 am (UTC)I learned to tie my shoes on my own, through imitation (at four and a half), so I'm not familiar with "being taught" lingo.
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