Since she turned 4, my daughter Ally has become more and more independent. And one of her favorite new freedoms is picking out her own shoes each day and putting them on all by herself.
However, sometimes Ally would mix up her shoes and put her left shoe on her right foot and her right shoe on the left. Then she would get frustrated that she had done it wrong. Her disappointment seemed to take the wind out of her sails.
I knew she would learn her left shoe from her right eventually, but while we were waiting for that day I wanted to give her a way of telling which shoe was which all by herself. So I bought some fabric paint and put a dot on the inside of each shoe on the inside edge. Now all Ally has to do is line the shoes up next to each other, and if the dots are next to each other, she has the shoes the right way. If the dots are far apart, she knows to rearrange them.
Ally was so excited about her shoe dots and immediately got the hang of matching them up. Now she shows off to anyone who will watch how she matches up the dots to put on her shoes. And she hasn’t mixed up her shoes since I put the dots inside them.
I know someday she’ll be able to tell her shoes apart just by looking at them, but until that day, Ally has her confidence back that she can put on her shoes all by herself.
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