It becomes a vicious circle, you buy velcro shoes to be independent at school but then there is no need or little opportunity to learn to tie shoes.
At nearly six, Emma needs to figure it out. So, I made a deal with her. She learns to tie her shoelaces and I will get her a pair of TwinkleToes running shoes for school in the fall. Also, I wasn't replacing her pair with the broken velcro that were becoming the bane of her existence.There was tons of motivation. :)
It also helped that the pair of sneakers I bought her to practice tying were pink.
It took her 2 days... one weekend. We bought them Friday afternoon, practiced over the weekend and she wore them to daycare on Monday.
She is very proud of herself.
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