When did you learn to tie your shoes?

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I learned to tie my shoes at the age of three mainly because my father forced me to. He made me sit down and do it over and over while he yelled at me in frustration. I hated it, but it was successful.

His principal one day on a wild hair pulled every kid wearing a red shirt into the auditorium and had the local PD there with handcuffs screaming at the kids that this was their future if they continued with gang activities. Some of the children were as young as 8, some were honor students, and many went home still crying.

We could have changed schools, but my son's teacher, the counsellor and the sped guy are AMAZING, and we all have a great relationship, so I chose to stay, but let the principal know, in no uncertain terms (yes, I am a card carrying member of the Mothers from He!!) that he better not run interference like that with either of *my* kids.

As for the lace tying, our son is also left handed, and no one else in the household is, which I think heightened the frustration in his trying to learn when everything was backwards. Now I think he keeps his shoes tied so they are tight enough but he can slip in and out of them without retying.

I was a kid when I was finally able to tie my shoes. It took me a while, but I think by the time I was in Kindergarten (mid-way through) I finally got the hang of it, but I was one of the last people in my class to tie their shoes. My mom's really good friend at the time was telling me a story to help me learn to tie my shoes, something about the bunny goes through the hole. I can't remember the story.

So they wouldnt fall apart right away??? I was probably 10 or 11 and my bros the same way.

When I was 5 or 6.

Great topic!! I was a late learner in many things, tying shoes among them. Probably learned before kindergarden, but used the double loop method. Still do, and if I'm tying them in public, I feel funny and occasionally err and have to start again. I'm told that my mom brushed my teeth for me far later than normal, don't recall when. Then, I went throught a period in my teens where I didn't brush for years. Learned to ride a bike when I was about 38; a great accomplishment! And learned how to swim @ 42, but still not really confident.

I'm 53 now and really coming along.

I can't remember for sure when my son learned to tie his shoes. I know it was later than most. But I do remember when he did tie them he would do every thing right, but he would never give them a good tug to tighten the knot, so it would just fall apart in a few minutes. He did that for years.

I have clear recollections of being 7 or 8, and still having difficulty tying my laces. At the time I couldn't even tie one lace under the other, never mind make the bows.

At the same point in time, I also remember having serious difficulty with opening and closing venetian blinds. I used to bend and fold them all over the place trying to open or close them.

Learnt at about 10, still have trouble. I can make the laces tight but they always come lose at the wrong place and the wrong time. I dont have the grip. I prefer slip-ons.

I've learned between the ages 6 and 7. 67! Get it?

"Groovy, Baby!"

I remember having a great deal of trouble learning how to tie my shoes, only managing it after I had just about outgrown velcro shoes. Even then, my mom had to teach me something of a "cheat" method that was/is much easier for me, but isn't quite as effective and certainly isn't as common. I still use that, though I usually double-knot.

I was about six or eight, I believe, and it took at least two months of my father tying and untying and retying first his own and then mine for me and making me oractice for ten minutes every day.

I think I drove him MAD with it, but I got there in the end.

Julie

I wasnt able to tie my shoelaces by myself until I was 10.
I think I was 7 when my dad tried to teach the 'loop,swoop & pull' method but I couldnt follow what he was doing, so I ended up tying my laces around my ankles. I ended up watching a friend as she tied hers using the 'bunny ears' method. That method was much easier

I learned to tie my shoes at 10 or 11. Most kids probably learned at 5 or 6, but I learned later because I was behind for my age. Before that, I would either tuck my shoelaces in my sneakers or have someone else tie them for me. I guess tying shoelaces was hard for me because of the complexity of the motions and motor skill difficulties with holding and trying to make the laces into a perfect knot. It was hard and frustrating for me but when I finally learned, I was so happy that I kept on tying my shoes again and again

I was about nine or so.

Around 25.