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People don't really use 2 hands to button, do they??? I have a hard time with tight buttons--also have a really ,tough time with pants that button on the side and won't even bother with those that zip and button in the back. I also thoug everyone twited a bra around to the fornt to fasten it and was amazed when I found out some people can reach right around and reach those hooks.
does it affect my life as far as quality? Not really. well, not enough to worry about. Buttons ARE hard. Isn't there some kind of adaptive button hook thing that can be used for that?

Hi Laura, my son Tyler is 9 and figured out how to close snap jeans when he was about 7. He hates button jeans, so he only has snap for now, but from all these stories it sounds like buttons are not impossible! At age 6, he may just not be coordinated enough to get it figured out. You're right though, I remember thinking size 7 was about the last size I could find pull-up jeans. I didn't want him to have to wear sport pants his whole life. But he figured it out!
Jaime

My son is 6 1/2 and has been buttoning his own jeans for a year and a half, since he found out that the kids at school didn't wear elastic everyday, ha, ha. He came home from school and said, mom, I need big boy jeans with buttons so I said that he never could button them. He said he would. We went to the store and he tried for 5 minutes and buttoned them. They do have to be bigger.....but then he takes the hole part and stretches it over the button.....I still take him to try on his jeans at the store. SOME BRANDS DO NOT WORK AT ALL and others are a dream. It does take practice and I know that when he come home from school and is tired he will ask someone to help him, but that is fine. I just did not want him having to go to the school nurse everytime he had to use the bathroom. Keep practicing. HINT: If you have him practice on the jeans when they are off...it loosens up the hole too.

well when i boy was 7 he would leave the zipper open i would catch him one day i ask him why is your fly open he said its to hard to pull up so we brought him the jeans with no zippers or buttons he just pulls them down seems to work mike

well when my boy was 7 he would leave the zipper open i would catch him one day i ask him why is your fly open he said its to hard to pull up so we brought him the jeans with no zippers or buttons he just pulls them down seems to work mike

Laura , my son david is almost 8 and has robpi and still has a really hard time with buttons he hates to wear jeans unless he's home( he hates to ask for help at school) so for school he lives in wind pants elastic cords and sweatpants, life is tough enough so i dont push the button ,we work at it but i tell him just keep trying you'll get it ..he also cant tie his shoes .but wont wear slip ons so we double or triple knot them

Our OT suggested a button wire. It is supposed to help buttoning with one hand. Unfortunately haven't tried it as Dustin insists on wearing tight jeans and they thought it wouldn't help as it requires too much pressure, lol

WOW! I posted this up here a year ago and it's still being responded to?? COOL! In case you were wondering though, Tyler can now button and zip his own pants. It took lots of practice, but he can do it.

Laura