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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How to un-frustrate my kid :-)
Brinley desperately wants to be able to write her name. She knows the letters, but physically she can't do it yet and it makes her frustrated.
I know fine motor skills is something they work on in her daycare/preschool--but any one know of any fun activities that she can do to develop that strength? Ones that don't involve her tracing things? She's great at coloring in the lines, but drawing/writing are still a challenge.
I've been trying to get to pick up early enough to chat with her teacher, but I've been missing her :-)
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Re: How to un-frustrate my kid :-)
My little guys occupational therapist worked a lot with him on fine motor. How is she at other fine motor skills? Like scissors, using utensils, zipping zippers...things like that?
Some things we've done with Simon:
Lacing cards, stringing beads, stringing dry noodles on pipecleaners, cutting out shapes, puzzles, playdoh, opening and closing anything (he really struggles with flip top lids and hasn't grasped twisting yet), blocks, painting with paintbrushes, silly putty. I'm sure there's lots more that I'm not thinking of.
What about a stencil?
You could teach here to identify the letters in her name in order and trace them. Or, I bet someone somewhere on the internet can make a custom one for you. This may even be able to happen with Cricut or something. (If you used heavy cardstock.) Then she could get practice writing the letters, but not have to do it free form.