shoelaces and nutrition

Posted by admin on July 14, 2005

Weve been enjoying all this wonderful weather, going for lots of long walks and lying in the sun reading. Yesterday we had a shoelace and knot day. Both children are now tying their shoelaces without help. This is something that quite a few children with Aspergers, dyslexia or dyspraxia have trouble with. We went on to experiment with various types of knot and ended up making friendship bracelets with lots of knots one on top of the other. Found this slightly aspieish Shoelace site. Followed on by making twisty ropes with different colours of yarn – all very good for manual dexterity.Today has found us randomly learning various unconnected things (oh no – were becoming like school!!! no…were really learning…). Daniel watched another Tony Robinson programme about the Royal family not really having a proper claim to the throne – lots of royal history facts have been flying about all afternoon. Charlotte and me somehow found ourselves on the Jamie’s School Dinners website which has a good cartoon for kids about junk food here – I certainly saw many horrifying sights on plates while working as a lunchtime auxiliary in state school. Cheapness and ease seemed to be the priority, not health or taste. We then linked through to an article from the Guardian about what goes into chicken nuggets – here (not for the faint hearted). Sparked much discussion on healthy eating. Were following Gillian McKeith’s ‘You Are What You Eat’ on Channel 4 each Wednesday just now too, so perhaps were not quite so random and unconnected after all ;-)

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