True story: we had to learn to tie our shoelaces in pre-school. I was four. We were given a cardboard "shoe" we got to decorate, and when we'd successfully mastered the bow the shoe would be hung on a wall at school.
I never mastered my shoe, and it was never hung on the wall. They gave it to me to take home at the end of the year, so I could keep practicing. My mom was seriously concerned that I had a learning disability, and spent days that summer working on my bow with me. I finally got it, to her great relief.
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Date: 2009-01-19 10:20 am (UTC)True story: we had to learn to tie our shoelaces in pre-school. I was four. We were given a cardboard "shoe" we got to decorate, and when we'd successfully mastered the bow the shoe would be hung on a wall at school.
I never mastered my shoe, and it was never hung on the wall. They gave it to me to take home at the end of the year, so I could keep practicing. My mom was seriously concerned that I had a learning disability, and spent days that summer working on my bow with me. I finally got it, to her great relief.
I'm now married to a man who can't tie his shoes.