Picking up a child for kindergarten or school is not always an easy task. Mom from England figured out how to make dressing easier and win a couple of minutes for herself.
Mother-of-four Shannon Dougherty posted a video on TikTok that went viral overnight. She shared her advice on how to quickly get the children to school.
Often children confuse “right and left” and put on shoes on the wrong feet: right on the left, and left on the right. A simple Shannon maneuver will help show your child how to properly put on shoes without further ado.
Here’s what she came up with: she cut the sticker, which depicted two figures, in half and pasted one half on the left shoe, the other on the right. And if you put a pair side by side correctly, half of the stickers will form a whole image. So the children will be able to get themselves together, put on shoes “on those” feet and give mom a couple of minutes to get herself together.
The video received a lot of responses from subscribers. One wrote: “Great idea! Thanks for sharing.” Another commented: “Clever! Now I don’t have to tell my kids how to put on their shoes a million times.” “Perfect… It’s so much easier to explain to a child how to put the shoe on the right foot,” said a third. A fourth commented, “Good idea. You can also write the letter L on the left shoe with an indelible marker, and the letter P on the right.
We all should take Shannon’s idea into service and don’t forget that we should always take care of ourselves, our comfort and health first of all. As they say, put a mask on yourself, and then on the child. Don’t be afraid to use all sorts of tricks to allow kids to become independent and give themselves some time to catch their breath.