Can your school aged child do up their shoelaces?

[zilly]

I used to be able to tie mine up from an earlier age. It got to a point where I would teach my best friend how to tie her laces, and she in response would help me choose my left shoe from my right (it took me years to work out it was the way I took them off... take off left shoe, then cross leg and take of right shoe, dropping the right on the left side of the left shoe... then when going to put them back on I always thought they were ready to go)

[Fleur]

DS2 is 9 and learnt at the end of last year - he had been in mostly velcro shoes before then. I think DD1 was about 7, DS1 8 or 9.

[Jewel]

He could do them properly when he was in year 1 so 6yrs. He tries to skip doing them these days and just slip them on but the mean mummy I am makes him redo the laces and tighten them.

[MrsFabuloso]

DD is of school age, ie, *could* go to school (but doesn't go yet, she's going next year) and can do her laces, she learnt just after she was 4. I was lucky though, she learnt really quickly, DH and I showed her maybe 5 times or so when we brought he laced shoes and she got it.