I did it! They did it! I finally taught the girls to tie their shoelaces! I had been putting off the teaching process for far too long because I don’t tie a bow exactly right, so I kept hoping someone else would volunteer to teach them the proper technique. However, when I went shopping for sneakers last week, I absentmindedly bought Becky a pair of shoes with laces instead of our standard Velcro straps. Oops! I’m glad I was forced to do it, because the teaching process really went much quicker than I had expected. I googled a few different techniques, but I was baffled by all the “teach your kid to tie shoes in 1 minute/ 5 minutes/ bunnny ears/ fool-proof method/blah blah blah” videos. If I couldn’t figure out how to copy the video, I sure wasn’t going to be able to teach the girls that way. I eventually stumbled upon an old 1980’s Sesame Street video on YouTube which used the technique very similar to mine (except I still do it backwards), and showed it to the girls. Between that video and a bunch of trial and error on all our parts, both girls mastered it in a single afternoon! We’re all very excited!
YEAH!!!!!!!!