Toewalking

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I know this must have been asked before and if so can someone please please post a link?
How can I get DS to walk flat feet like heel-toe and how on earth do I get him to concentrate on walking instead of looking around????? He gets distracted soo easily!
I have asked his OT and she wasn't able to help me much.

I remind myself that it's not healthy to do. Only hard part is that I do it without noticing.

Idunno about kids though...it's easy for them to take things like that as scolding or nagging.

My parents played the "walking game" with me while I was young. I still walked on my toes a lot, but they basically trained me (and bribed me with my favorite supper if I "beat" them at the game.) I was 2/3-4/5 while playing the game, and it simply became habit after awhile.
Basically we had "races" walking/running a certain way, which upgraded to a semi obsitacle course/sports.

To this day, my natural gait is to place the ball of my foot down just before the heel. I don't tippy toe though, and never really did.

I would just advise NOT putting your hand on your child's shoulder and forcing them down flat like I had done to me. Everytime I was caught walking on my toes, my mum or da would put their hand on my shoulder and tell me to walk "normal"...I still catch myself doing it occasionally, but remind myself to walk normally.

I don't have a good answer for this..I STILL toe-walk...Granted, while growing up, it caused me a great deal of growing pains..and it made me super-extra clumsy at sports....but I kinda like it now....I have strong ankles and legs and very dexterous toes.

As a kid (mainly due to the constant teasing) I would try to trick myself into walking flat-footed....I would wear big clunky orthopedic shoes that I found at a thrift store and and told people that I had to wear these in order to help me not walk on my toes...of course it meant getting teased forthe shoes....but I think maybe I was trying to prove that I couldn't help my toe-walking...

Anywhoo....have you tried taking your son to a foot doctor??

When I was a toddler, my feet were put in casts/braces to keep me from toe-walking. I believe my parents went through Easter Seals? I hadn't yet been DXed with Asperger's, though. I think that, at that point, my doctor and parents were worried about future foot damage.

I still sometimes toe-walk. But, mostly, my gait problems result from my ankles turning in + me walking super fast.

i have to walk with my heel off the floor otherwise i trip ver myself