Who says you can't learn things from movies?

[charliesmum]

So yesterday I was watching this movie called Raising Helen starring Kate Hudson. Not a bad movie, one of those redemption type films I usually enjoy, and Joan Cusack was in it and she is always good. Anyway, Helen, single career-minded party girl, gets custody of her sister's 3 children when the sister and her husband die, and blah blah blah you can pretty much see where this is going. One of the kids is five or six years old, and the mother had been teaching her to tie shoes right before she died, and this becomes a thread throughout the story. In the end the little girl can tie her own shoes, and they show this as the happy music swells.

Now Charlie has always had, up until this year, shoes with velcro on them, so tying his shoes was never an issue. I figured though, at 8 years old he ought to know, so this year he has trainers with laces. I have not been successful in teaching him how to tie shoes, I don't know if it is because I am left handed and therefore do it differently then he does, or if I'm just not good at explaining it. Pretty sure it's the latter.

Anyway, in the movie, they tied the shoe in a way that was different than the way I was attempting to show Charlie, and it looked a bit easier. Fortunately since the shoe tying was symbolic and all, I got a pretty good idea of how it went, and this morning I showed it to Charlie.*

He did it! He tied his own shoe. He was so very proud and told me "I will remember."

So thanks, Kate Hudson, for teaching my son how to tie shoes.



*Make two bunny ears, one bunny ear goes around the other, then through the 'bunny hole' then pull tight. In case you're wondering.

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[lietya.livejournal.com]

Yep, we are! That was my attitude too - it works, so what's wrong?