Teaching shoe tying...

[MommyInTraining]

When and how do you teach this?

Thanks!

[inHistiming]

We are just starting this with my 5.5 year old...we just got 'tie' shoes a few weeks ago. We started in K with my dd and now this ds...we did not do it with oldest 'til 2nd grade and I think (for him) that was way too late. He is still extremely SLOW with it! Anyway, as for how? For now, I'm having him get them on his feet, then I have him watch me tie them. I have had him practice the first part...my plan is to have him do each step until he masters it, and so on until he can do it by himself.

[Jessi]

This is going to be a hard thing for me to teach my daughter. She is left-handed and both her dad and I are right-handed. I know that to show her would require I teach every step mirror image to how I am used to doing it. That will be tough. I am planning on starting her next year with learning when she is in K.

[funkmomma71]

I'm leaving the teaching of shoe tying do my dear husband!! I'm not very coodinated, so he has to pick the slack in this area.

[water2wine]

I taught this with preschool to my first four. They all had one of those dress up dolls that have buttons, snaps and tying shoes. My youngest two taught themselves. I actually did nothing to help them both just learned on their own. For the others I think those little dolls and a cardboard shoe with laces helped. Preschool to K seems like the time to start to me.