Re: Re: Help!! She's unbuckling them!!!

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NICE !! Someone's got her thinking cap on today huh?

You Rock!! Love the button idea. Really, really smart.

Kori

At 02:50 PM 6/28/2006, you wrote:

>Livi, Livi, Livi, what are we going to do with you? So now we need to

>come up with a way to keep these suckers buckled, hmm...

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>Well, the first thing I would suggest is reasoning with her. So she's

>almost 30 months, she may be able to understand the consequences of

>not wearing them. Depends on her maturity level. Not that you want

>to scare her or anything, but do you think if you showed her pictures

>of her foot at birth, and the casting process and explained that it

>could turn back in like that if she doesn't wear the brace that she

>would get it?

>Also, a reward system should work - gold stars or stickers on a

>calendar every night she leaves the shoes on, accumulate a certain #

>of stickers and she gets a special treat or gets to do a special

>activity like watch extra tv, a special movie, a trip to the zoo, or

>the ice cream shop, etc.

>These may be things that you will have to try, and then if you see

>she is not getting it, drop it for a month and then try again, she

>will get it eventually. Also, in the meantime, keep plugging away

>with the shoes, it's probably getting to be a game for her now and if

>it wasn't made a big deal of she might get tired of the game.

>As far as actually physically keeping the shoes on, I guess there's

>still always duct tape, but that would get awfully sticky on that

>leather. Here's a wild idea, does she know how to un-button? What if

>you sewed a couple buttons on to the shoe just on the otherside of the

>buckle and put slits in the straps so that after they are buckled,

>then you have to also button the strap to the shoe. If she can't get

>that open then she can't get the strap out of the buckle. Does this

>make sense? Crazy? Someone who actually uses these things tell me if

>you think this would work...

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> > Livi got new s a couple weeks ago. Coinciding with the

> > arrival of her new shoes was a new skill - shoe unbuckling and removal.

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> > I don't know if the shoe itself is easier to unbuckle, or she's just

> > getting more dexterity (or both!)but she is NOT keeping them on, under

> > any circumstance. She waits until I've put her to bed, then throws

> > them out of her crib.

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> > I put them on, she takes them off, I put them on, she takes them off.

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> > HELP!!!!

> >

> > Livi 3.15.04 bi cf p/m fab 14/7 (theoretically)

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