Re: How to tie shoelaces


"Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think a lot of times, kids don't learn to tie shoes until they join a
soccer or baseball team because those shoes require tying. As a coach, I
spent a lot of time tying kids shoes.

As a coach I bought my whole team those "sweet spot" things (elastic sleeves
that go over the laces on soccer shoes) so that I wouldn't spend the whole
game tying shoes. It worked out well. I've also seen teams that have a
parent assigned as "shoe tyer". They would double tie all shoes before the
game, and then stand in a certain place so kid's who's shoes still came
untied would run to them to get the shoes retied.

I certainly can understand that a teacher wouldn't want to tie all the kids
shoes. I think it is a parent's responsibility to send kids to school in
clothes the child can handle on their own. If a child cannot yet tie their
own shoes, then they get sent to school in shoes that don't have ties. How
hard is that.


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