It seems odd and very unimportant as far as skills go. Something we probably never even think about. Ki is 12. He's never really been good at scooting a chair.
We go to sit at a table or desk and scoot the chair under the table as we sit down on the chair.
We scoot the chair back out when we stand up to leave.
Ki can't do this. He places the chair and then squirms to get into it. Or just sits on the very edge of the chair and doesn't have it scooted up at all.
when he gets out, he has to slide off and wiggle out (or often he is doing the 'barely on the edge of the chair with the chair not really scooted under the table)
He had trouble with our earthquake drill today because he couldn't scoot his chair out of the way of the desk and instead he ran across the room to the door frame. door frames are good and under a sturdy desk is good-- but you need too do whatever is CLOSEST. so if your at the desk you shouldn't run across the entire room to get to the door frame and vise-versa.
so I guess now I have t teach my 12 yr old how to scoot his chair. I started to, but Ki was very defensive and about to have a meltdown over it and I decided to do it later and maybe avoid a meltdown and subsequent bad day.
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i've never really thought about whether he CAN do it or not, but i do know that he DOESN'T scoot his chair.
He wiggles into it, or gets out of the chair and pushes it into place. i'll have to check and see if he can scoot.
If you have a chair that has wheels on it, maybe you could have him go forward and backwards in it. I remember at physical therapy there was a man that had hurt his leg, and that was his therapy, to scoot around on a wheeled chair. It could be he just needs practice.
I *think* my kids can do this, but I'm NOT sure they can tie their shoes. That's why we always have the tie-less ones!
I think most kids have certain issues that seem to be odd and you just have to let them grow out of it. The more attention you give it, the worse it will make the child feel.
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