I can't learn to tie my shoelaces?

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Thanks for all the great tips! I'm going to work hard.

Hi, J-H-H - like you, I'm also a creative person who is bad at math, and I didn't learn to tie my shoes until I was at least 9 or 10. I think it helped when my mom took some time to teach me one-on-one, and she did it in the most encouraging, loving way possible - this was in contrast with the way they taught it at my preschool, with the teachers barking at us, "Come on, come on, this is EASY! You're gonna have to learn SOMETIME!" I didn't find their approach encouraging at all, and in such a big class, I didn't get the one-on-one help I needed. I do remember my mom buying me a lot of velcro and zip-up shoes, and shoelaces that were shaped like wire coils, which were cool.

It took me forever to learn to tie my shoelaces. I only learned when I was in late elementary school. It was so embarrassing. My parents would always lose patience with me, but I kept doing it because I had no choice, until finally, I was able to tie them. To this day, I still have trouble. I can tie them, but really slowly, and I have to really concentrate. I've never been able to tie them quickly and without looking like other people can.

I'm just learning how to tie laces today for the very first time. I simply couldn't do it as a child, so I was given velcro. It's the entire thing about where to put the thumbs, how far to push it through and so on. I've spent two hours non-stop on trying to do this, and I've just managed to do it for the first time.

I'm going to have another go in a minute.

i cant tie my shoes either, well, at least not the way with the stupid "rabbit in the hole" technique that everyone seems to know, i just make a knot, then i make two loops and make them into a knot which is the only way my dad was able to teach me.

i too am bad at math, but very creative.

I've mostly caught up on most of my motor skills, but I still never learned to tie my shoes until I was like 12. I still have trouble tying shoes, they always come undone a few minutes later, and one end if always shorter than the other, so they fall out. What I do, is ask my mom to tie my shoes (Yeah yeah, it's only one time), and to tie it really tight, so now I just slip on and off my shoes, and they always stay tied .

I had this proble, i dont remember my age, but i remember i literally say down under a table when i was a kid, and then spend the better part of an entire day, just sitting there and tying shoe laces until i finally got it.

As much as i love velcro shoes they always come undone, and dirt and stuff gets into the velcro.

I don't really wear laced shoes to begin with...

I taught myself how to tie my shoes in preschool, but I'm slow at it. If I have to tie them around people I just joke that it takes me "two times forever" to tie my shoes.

I was also a little bit older when I learned to tie my shoes (don't actually remember when I got it... I think I was 10 or 11). It still takes me a long time so I will typically double-knot my shoes so they can't come undone as easily and then just slip my shoes on and off without ever untying them.

once I get my shoes tied just right I put super glue on the knot and just slip them on and off

I learned to tie my shoelaces relatively late for my age. While most of my peers learned to tie their shoes around age 6-7, I didn't learn until I was 10. Even today, I am much slower at tying them than other people.