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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with a lot of the suggestions so far, but I do want to note that K is a major transition year for a lot of this. I too worried about my kindergartener not being independent enough, but later discovered that a lot of this was age-related -- she couldn't do some of the stuff peers could do when K started because she was one of the youngest kids in class. By the end of the year, she'd "caught up." So especially with stuff that requires fine motor skills and hand eye coordination (buttoning buttons, tying shoes, brushing or rinsing hair) as long as you consistently give her opportunities to practice, she'll get it in her own time. I was definitely still doing some of DD's buttons and zippers well into K, but she's in 1st now and 100% independent on most "getting ready" tasks. So it happens in its own time, to some extent.[/quote]
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