my son's wiring

[sistawendy]

The Wendling is spending one of his regular weekends with me this weekend. Believe it or not, I was looking forward to a quiet weekend after this week, until I got out of bed this morning and went straight to the bathroom.

I found one hand towel rack taped together with masking tape. This rack is a stout lucite ring with a gap in it to allow it to clamp onto a ceramic fitting that is in turn glued onto a built-in cabinet. Yeah, I know, old and not exactly posh, but it came with the apartment so I'm responsible for it. There was some brief yelling. I'll try to super glue it sooner or later.

But how, you may ask, could that have happened? Through my son's lack of motor planning. He probably just grabbed the towel by both ends and he definitely yanked hard, as a chimpanzee might. He doesn't move his body so much as fling it, like a marionette controlled by a young child.

What on earth do I do about this? Before you recommend martial arts or dance, remember that he's old enough now I have to get him interested in something like that. And occupational therapy tends to be geared toward much younger children - he did that, he loved it, and I think it helped - but I don't think it addresses the kind of thing I'm seeing.

Masking tape? Really, kiddo?

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I don't know what fabrication facilities you have but if you drill a small hole a short distance into each broken bit and put a little dowel in there it'll greatly increase the success possibilities. It'd work best visually if the dowel were made of something clear-ish; I could probably cut a little bit of 1/8" polycarbonate or the like and mail it to you if needed.