Try a diffrent method! I teach the kids with "bunny ears" but I may switch to the first one on the list instead. http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
I'm too challenged to figure out that first one, lol! I guess I'll stick with the old fashioned way or bunny ears...whatever will work.
That is by far, the coolest site I have seen in some time. (Yes, I do not get out much) Regardless.... I found myself stuck there for a while... Yes, I practiced knots.... I am hopelessly burried in nerd-dom!
I figured out the "Ian Knot"! I also want to figure out what he has to say about secure vs. insecure knots. That may explain to me why Faythe's shoes are CONSTANTLY coming untied!!! I thought it was just the kind of shoestrings she had!
Well as far a "Type" of shoestring, I do know that from experience the "Rounded" strings, FLY untied all the time. Drives me nuts. If there is a pair of shoes that I must have, I will go out of my way to buy an extra pair of flat laces, just so I do not have to use the rounded ones. I find this mostly in (Funny or not) Hiking Shoes. (Seems they would be more concerned at that point, that your laces stayed laced.) But I guess I am wrong. Or it is simply a massive conspiracy to drive us slowly insane. (Working)
Jennifer, the shoes that drove me up the wall as far as my kids were concerned were hiking boots! So that's what I thought, too. But at the same time, I wonder if it'd work better if I paid attention to exactly how they're tied, like he said. Phillip's shoes NEVER stayed tied when he ties them, but he's only six and this is a newly-aquired skill for him. He just can't pull them tight enough yet!
we have a problem with the round laces too, they seam to be slicker and don't stay tied like the flat ones.-------unfortunatly the kids used all the flat ones from old shoes to intice the kitty to play with them.
My experience says to let somone else teach them, like their grandpa or an older cousin. When my oldest son (25) was young, he could not tie his shoe for anything. He seemed to be listening and watching, but no success. Then he went with some of our church youth one afternoon and he came home telling me he could tie his shoes! I think it was a little different way than I had showed him, too, but mostly because someone he wanted to please was teaching him.
You'r eright about that. I remember my mother trying to teach me to tell time. Of course, she became frustrated. Her brother touted that he could show any kid how to tell time in five minutes. I was 7 years old, and he did teach me how to read an anolog clock in about five minues! Of course, my mother was sure that I simply did it to anger her. But the truth was, my uncle used different words and showed me a different way. And what G'ma says is true. The hard part, I think is figuring out when you need someone else to show the child. And of course, WHO you would get. Happy day! jen
