Can your school aged child do up their shoelaces?

[Phteven]

Can your school aged child do up their shoelaces?
How old where they when they learnt? If they can't do their own laces when are you planning to teach them?
Are there any good youtube videos that can help me teach my two?
I have ordered a book from scholastic because my teaching skills just aren't up to it.
I'm sure I learnt when I started school which meant I could do it when I was 5 but my boys are 7 and 5 and they can't do it.

[Nai]

Dd1 just turned 6 can, she learned last year. Apparently she taught herself as we didn't!

She has a book called loose lace that I think she practiced with

[~Ash~]

I practiced with DD right through prep and she was just starting to do it herself by the end of the year.

I gave up over the holidays because she was never wearing shoes with laces.

Once grade 1 started she didn't need my help anymore so I guess it all solidified over the holidays without us repeating it.

She just mentioned this morning that she's been helping one of her friends at school learn how to do it too - which I think it kinda cool

To teach her I just showed her step by step each time I did it - I didnt really push her to try until she wanted to (which always seems to be the days we were running late and I wanted to go quickly, of course lol). Sometimes I would show her the rabbit around the tree way and other times I would show her the two ears one - she uses the tree one

Good luck! The book sounds awesome to help.


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[Boo Boo]

What's the rabbit round the tree rhyme again. DD can't and she is five just started prep this year.

[Astrid]

DD1 is almost 7 and can't tie shoelaces. She tries to tie her dressing gown with a bow though. I think with her though it is mostly due wearing girlie shoes with buckles or velcro straps.

[Astrolady]

Kameron can do it, he only learnt last year. I gave up trying to teach him and Andrew managed to do it. Lachlan can I think but they both prefer to tie them up loose so they can just pull their shoes on and off.

[CKJ]

My 6yo DD can't do them, but she doesn't own any shoes with laces. She is only a size 8-9 in toddler/kids shoes so it's mostly Velcro or pull on. She is learning buckles in sandals though

[~Trish~]

My DS1 learned when he was 5 - DH taught him, he has more patience than me lol! Last year our local shoe shop gave us a cardboard card that looks like a shoe and has a lace on it so kids can practice tying it up. It was by Clarks, so it might be worth asking one of your local shoe shops if they have any?

[~Kim~]

Yes she can. She taught herself at the beginning of last year (so at 4.5). Apparently she's a bit of an anomaly. Every teacher she has comments on it. It's not common until years 2-3 they tell me.

[Phteven]

We got our second little cardboard shoe today. The first one was ripped up in frustration a year ago.
I mentioned to the woman at the shoe shop that DS2 was trying to do up his laces and she asked if I'd got a card before so I said no because I thought it might be handy and I figured it was easier to lie than to explain that DS1 had ripped the last one up. DS1 then asked the woman what she was getting and she told him so he said "we used to have one of them" then she bought it out and gave it to DS2 who said "that's the same as the one one DS1 had"
I guess it would have been easier to explain that the last one was ripped up after all.

[courts&munchkins]

I remember in pre-school they taught us how to tie our shoes. I remember them saying we couldn't graduate to school unless we knew how. So I was 5. I haven't even thought about it yet with ds1 (he'll be 5 in August) I think I'll attempt to teach him towards the end of the year in hope he knows for prep next year.

[{sarah}]

Our little man is learning at the moment (he'll be 7 in two weeks). He can do the first part but is getting stuck once he has to do the loops.

[megs]

My eldest learnt at the age of 5 and a half, he had it mastered by the start of school and was quite chuffed as the teachers would get him to help do up his classmates shoelaces after gym class.

That being said my 2nd son is now 5 and is showing no signs of mastering the art. Although being summer hasn't help as he hasn't been wearing shoes with laces.

[~Trish~]

We got our second little cardboard shoe today. The first one was ripped up in frustration a year ago.
I mentioned to the woman at the shoe shop that DS2 was trying to do up his laces and she asked if I'd got a card before so I said no because I thought it might be handy and I figured it was easier to lie than to explain that DS1 had ripped the last one up. DS1 then asked the woman what she was getting and she told him so he said "we used to have one of them" then she bought it out and gave it to DS2 who said "that's the same as the one one DS1 had"
I guess it would have been easier to explain that the last one was ripped up after all.

That would so happen to me.

[Purple Penguin]

DH taught DD1 last year, she's now 6 and can pretty much do it.

[~Serenity~]

Dd5 can, not sure who taught her ds could at 6


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[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.