Teaching Your Child To Tie His/Her Shoes

On teaching a child to tie their shoes. Your local library should have some books that include a lace-up practice page. Or you could try going to this website, How to Teach a 6-Year-Old To Tie Shoes in 5 Minutes for more than one technique.

Around here, cowboy boots are a staple in the shoe collection, which don't have "ties". Many shoes, including tennis shoes, have replaced the usual laces with velcro or the don't-have-to-tie laces. But as Maddy has learned, even if you don't wear shoes that need to be tied, she does need to know how to tie the 2 ties on her Tae Kwon Do jacket. So NOW she is motivated to learn to tie!

Update 11-21-13:  Hey, this works! Maddy has tying her shoes figured out! And she got to tell her Tae Kwon Do instructor that she has met her short-term goal!