Does my child have to be able to tie his or her own shoes?
At 5-6 years of age, children usually have the necessary fine motor skills to tie their shoes on their own. You can also practice tying ribbons with the children just before they start school. A good way to make the complicated process of tying bows easier for children is to playfully tie shoes with a string through a piece of wood or cardboard.
The children can practice dry, so to speak, and then try it out on their own shoes. One child should be able to tie shoes on its own, as this may be necessary in everyday school life and on excursions. In many schools, slippers are worn in the classrooms so that the children have to tie their shoes alone several times a day.
