Can your school aged child do up their shoelaces?

[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.