Tying shoelaces can be a complex activity to a kid as learning to ride a bicycle. Training a kid to tie shoelaces should therefore be taken as a serious activity because it can be a strenuous action to the child if the activity is not handled well. The essay that follows intends to provide guidelines on how the activity should be carried out to ensure that the result is that the child has acquired the right skill that will enable them to tie shoelaces fast and securely. The instructions that follow will help an adult to train a kid to tie their shoes in a fashion that is easily understandable to the kid with no difficulties to both the kid and the adult.
To ensure that the process is not very strenuous, the adult should let the kid practice in a position that is comfortable. To enable the kid to get the tying process easily, there are poems that could be used so that the kid also remembers the tying process easily. Another way that ensures that the process will be easily understood is if the older person gets the kid a shoelace that has different colors at convenient places. This will ensure that the kid will always remember how the colors always appear and this makes them get the process easily when practicing. Patience is a requirement during the shoe tying process for both the kid and the parent.
What the adult needs to keep in mind is that they need to remember the guidelines so that they need to read through the guidelines so that they can avoid confusing the kid. The following items will be required during the shoelace tying process.
- Shoes (preferably different colors)
- Patience
- Shoelaces (different colors)
- Practice
The following are steps to be followed when teaching a child to tie their shoes and they need to be read thoroughly so that the adult would not confuse the child while they are learning the shoes. It is important to note that during the teaching you should do a demonstration of all the steps and talk through them even before you require the child to try them out.
- The adult should read and memorize the guidelines so that they cannot bring confusion to the child and make it almost impossible for the kid to understand what is right and what is wrong.
- Waiting for the right time to reach the child is the best option. In most cases, the children can start tying shoelaces when they are 4-6 years old.
- Ensure that before you start teaching your child, they can differentiate from left and right.
- Make sure that you follow only the guidelines that you started with so that the child cannot be confused. Ensure that all the people who teach the child how to tie the shoelaces have the same guidelines that you are using otherwise the kid would end up in confusion.
- The first step is to make sure that both the strings are of the same length while they are in the eyeholes. Always ensure that the laces are of the same length. If they are not adjust them.
- Place the shoe in front of the kid in a position that makes it look as if they are going to wear but make sure that the kid does not practice while they are wearing the shoe. Release the shoelaces so that they are on both sides of the shoe.
- Instruct them to create an X using the shoelaces.
- After this, make the child pinch where the two strings meet and then loop one of the strings over and then through the gap that is at the bottom of the X.
- Pull each of the laces to opposite directions and then keep tension on them and after this, they point a finger followed by creating a loop over the finger and then make a pinch of the loop near the shoes. After this is done, let the pull the finger out.
- After creating the loop, rotate the free lace around the loop that has been made and then pull the same string through the gap that has been made near the loop and then tag at it to make it tight.