I remember being taught bunny ears and it's stuck with me.
And your shoes are looking cool
This made me smile
I started singing this as soon as I read it
I don't trust people that tie their shoes using two loops rather than forming the second loop out of the bite formed passing under the initial loop
I didn't find out my wife was a two looper until after we were married
Divorce? 😅
Same. My husband does this. It feels like the child's way to tie shoes, before you learn the real way.
She probably just doesn't know how to do it, I don't, I'm 24 🥲🤣
Basically a square knot with extra steps
Same! My newly married husband ties his with the two loops and I cringed 😬
You think you know someone; and then they tie their shoes with two loops.
It’s a tragedy!
Nooooooooo
Lmao I used to do that but then I turned 7
Ouch
Parents... bunny ears go in the bunny hole.
Grandfather but same.
Grandfather, but the whole "check my pockets" thing with a hole cut out
Yep
First make the laces straight, then cross them in an x, pull one end down and through the bottom hole, pull until they’re tight. Then take one string, make a loop on it… then take string 2, wrap it around loop 1, then make another loop with string 2, then pull it tight together.
Edit: I do method number one in this tutorial
I learned on the same day I learned how to ride my bike without training wheels- my Grandpa taught me both 😊
My Grandpa also taught me both 🩵🥰 Literally the greatest person in my entire life 🩵
Same here ♥️
My grandpa taught me to tie my shoes too. Except I never tied the tight enough in his opinion. He would always stop me to tighten my shoes up until he passed away when I was 30. I was always his little girl no matter how old I was. Miss you Papa🧡
Grandpa's are pretty awesome. I miss both of mine :(
Loop swoop and pull.
Bunny ears by daycare teacher. I even remember proudly showing my dad when he picked me up.
My brother. Make a loop with the left lace, go around it and loop it through. However, I've learned an easier technique since then, in which you make a loop with both laces and then do the first part of a granny knot where you cross them and loop it through. It works every time and it blows my mind.
Nobody taught me. I started tying them around my ankles, and then eventually when the other kids started laughing at me, i kept playing with the laces till i managed it somehow
Survival instincts lol
A lot of frustration and practice! I have a clear memory of struggling in first grade and my teacher being kind but worn out over it.
I eventually learned how to do the "bunny ears", and that's still how I tie my shoes today at 46. My ten year old daughter recently mocked me for it, because she has a way she likes more and I couldn't help her with it.
I learn 2 bunny ears, loopy loop and pull. Never learned the one bunny ear way and don’t care to try now. I was I believe 5
Because of my condition, learning is painstaking, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't learn to tie my shoes until I was 8. I had a Ernie plush with hoody strings I would spend hours trying to tie, eventually I learned how, but it was very hard for mini me.
Hardest earned victories are always the sweetest. Good job for staying with it tho
Thank you, this means a lot.
Learn to do it right.
Ted Talks for everything lol
My family kept showing me and i didnt get it. Finally i tried my own way - i made two bunny ears and tied them in a knot
Sometimes we have to teach ourselves
My parents taught me. It took forever for me to learn. It was not something I caught onto quickly, and it frustrated me cause I was not used to not catching onto stuff quickly 😆
When I was about 9. I have a developmental disorder if that’s not normal
Everyone does things on their own schedule. 9 is just a good of age as any for it especially since most kids shoes are laceless or velcro
Bunny ears
I was taught bunny ears. Eventually got a job selling shoes and was quickly taught there was a different way to tie shoes. 😂😂😂
It was something I had to master to pass kindergarten*! I don't remember any rhymes or bunny ears, I was just showed over & over & over.
*I'm in my 60s. School was different then.
I'm pretty sure it was at a day camp, I was 10, and was shown the classic loop, swoop, and pull (my parents didn't show me because they were useless) I wore velcro shoes, then somehow got a pair of handmedown Reebok runners with laces.
I was put in a wooden rocking chair and made to practice standard loop and pull until I got it right. It was most of the day, it at least felt that way. I cried a lot. I finally got it. And was made to show hwr over and over again to make sure it wasnt a fluke. I'm fairly certain that babysitter was fired the next day.
I had the same type of experience. My soldier dad had no patience but my friends dad did and he taught me fast.
My older brother taught me.
I still don't know how I finally learned. I just could not grasp the concept when it was introduced in like, kindergarten. All the songs, all the cartoons, the practice shoe laces - nothing. I think I went all the way into first and maybe even second grade with velco straps.
I figured it out at some point. Probably out of sheer self-preservation to avoid more velcro.
Never liked doing it and tied my laces deliberately into knots. I still don't like doing it (I'm almost 36) and wear clogs/slip-ons/sandals.
I know it was my mom who taught me but I honestly don’t remember her method
I bet that's true for a lot of things our parents teach us
Watching Mr. Roger's on TV in early 70s.
He was extremely patient and meticulous with it.
I don’t remember. I remember a time when I couldn’t, and I know I can now, but I don’t remember ever learning. I’m sure I did, but. 🤷♂️
One of those things you learn and never forget. Like riding a bike
One loop with a wrap-around; my older sister taught me.
See yall were taught all these saying and I was just shown how then given my dads shoes to practice with
No mnemonics, mom just said “do this, then do that and pull it tight”. 3 or 4 years old.
My big issue is that I'm left-handed, so everyone trying to teach me was doing it backwards. I eventually had to teach myself (and all the northpaws still tell me I tie them strangely).
As long as it works and holds that's all that matters!
My granny taught me
My granny taught me how to cook and because of her I can make a mean meringue for pie.
😊
I couldn’t for the longest time. My brother taught me to make two loops and tie them in a knot. I learned the other way in middle school and still do it that way now
I have never been able to learn any other way and not by a lack of trying. Good work learning multiple ways
I couldn't figure it out. Then a stranger showed me how. I remember it was an elderly man, I was really little. He said "it's easy" and made two loops, then tied those. I had only been showed the other way, and no one I actively knew gave me this advice. It took a stranger to get it right for me!
We never really know where knowledge might come from and it shows how we can be connected to each other even for simple things you don't think a lot about. I learned from my friends dad after so much attempts by my own to teach me.
Still haven't
If you don't need to then don't bother but otherwise practice....lots of ideas here 😊
Make a loop with one lace, wrap the other around and then put it through the hole you just made.... Buddy I just made 3 dang holes, and I didn't learn until like 20 years later what I was actually supposed to put it through wasn't actually a hole I just made.
Eventually my parents just taught me the bunny ears method which made so much more sense than what they were trying to teach me before. I finally taught myself the way they were trying to by figuring out I was just supposed to make a quick release knot (like a regular knot except you don't let the end of the lace go through) around the loop. Now I use a method that was popular on the web several years back that I don't even remember how to look up anymore.
With my hands.
A black shoelace and a white shoelace threaded thru a cardboard square in kindergarten. We had a poem that i don't remember. Something about chasing a bunny around the tree?
Bunny ears, bunny ears, playing by a tree. Criss-crossed the tree, trying to catch me. Bunny ears, bunny ears, jumped into the hole, popped out the other side beautiful and bold.
Was that it? Also the different colored laces is a great idea
Loop, swoop and pull
That spongebob song has been stuck in my head all day now lol
I remember my parents teaching me. It was before I started kindergarten.
Bunny ears initially. Lately, I've been doing a knot where you take one of the bunny ears and tuck it underneath the other (above the initial crossing of laces), pull it through and tighten. My shoelaces never come undone.
That's the magic one I could never master. Had to stick to basics.
I’m left handed and initially learned with the bunny loop but now I do the tie, swoop, loop, tighten.
I remember my step dad trying to teach me and getting frustrated that I couldn't do it immediately, and then me getting angry that he was frustrated, because I was cognizant enough to realize that I wasn't doing anything wrong besides not magically getting it right the first time. Bunny ears probably would have been easier but I learned the one loop way
I did not learn that day, but eventually I must have figured it out. I don't remember the first time I did it though.
My soldier dad was like that. He was an eagle scout and army and so that somehow meant the knot genes were there automatically
My step dad was just an asshole. My mom was only married to him for a year
Looks like you both dodged a bullet then
My dad taught me and I practiced and practiced till I got it. I was like 5.
Will power is amazing with things like this
Definitely!
I had a book with shoestrings in it
That's a unique idea
I have a clear memory of a picture board book with laces. Basically a preschool shoe-tying manual. I remember practicing with it in front of the TV. Old school, never heard of bunny ears until a few years ago.
I have heard a lot in this post about the books. That is a unique idea.
I'm 90% sure television taught me, maybe something like Barney or another PBS show. I mostly remember my mom tying my laced shoes because no one could teach the family's first lefty, but I wore slip-ons most of the time.
A lot of those shows had ways of teaching things in unique ways. Sesame Street was big when I was growing up
I learned by watching my parents do it everyday for me. Eventually I did it by myself one morning.
Snake around one bunny ear
That's the one I just can't figure out
Apparently the wrong way. I didn't learn about the bunny going around the tree and chocks itself off or something. I tried teaching my little brother during kindergarten, but when I did, he got mad at me for not doing it right.
FYI, I don't recall how I learned it, but then again, i don't remember much before 3rd grade.
I'm not sure my little brother ever learned to tie his shoes. He wore flip flops all the way until at least 6th grade when I moved out and up until he died I only saw him in sandals or loafers. But I could see me teaching him going a lot like that
My aunt taught me, (father's side)
My aunt taught me to drive way before I should have been. She was my bestie growing up lol
“Over, under, around and through that is how you tie your shoe”
personally I still tie the bunny ears method
I get lost at the around part
That’s why I prefer the bunny ears method
Across tie up loop move till tips are next to knot then tie again
Mom taught me. Do a simple over under knot first then make a loop with one lace and wrap the other lace around your thumb while holding the loop creating a space to pass the end of the wrapping lace through to create your second loop and then pull tight.
With little nazis
I have no memory of learning to tie my laces. Oddly enough I can't describe how I do it now either. It's just muscle memory at this point. I do not do bunny ears, though
You might have learned very early on then.
I remember being frustrated about it. My grandad showed up and thaught me a different way. He also gave me a book about knots.
Grandads have come up a lot with this question. They rock
Nobody ever really took the time to try to teach me so I used to tie a regular old knot, then with the two left over ends I would shove them into the knot. My shoes came undone a lot. Then one day my friend from school in 2nd grade noticed me do this and she sat there and taught me how to tie my shoes
That's awesome. I used to shove my untied laces into my shoe and they would always come out at the WRONG time 😂😂
Lol that's what my dad would always tell me to do instead, but I liked people to think I could actually tie my shoes
I still tie them like a toddler. I don't know how to do the loopy loopy thing, I do the turning each lace into an "ear shape" and I tie those together.
Exactly how I do it with an extra one for good measure 😆😆
I always thought that was an uncommon way to do it because everyone around me does that other complicated thing 🥲
A best friend of mine taught me it
My aunt had to come teach me because we're both left handed and my mother isn't and she didn't have the time or patience or the interest level to teach me.
Does being left handed really change the process?
It makes it backwards, I guess.
Reverse engineering. It's how I solved a lot of problems, I do "builders works" on commercial building sites. And a big part of what I do is undoing what was done by someone else.
Makes sense, and that way of thinking gives a good breakdown of everything
I honestly have no idea.
Quite of few people said they can't remember. Just probably means you learned it way early
Well I am a prodigy and did many many things way before my peers. So I have that going for me. DUI at age 12, grand theft auto at 14….
Oh jeeze 🤣🤣
Same thing, my father made me keep practicing till I got it, he didn’t let me give up, taught me a life lesson at 5 years old!
Positive support helps!
Mr. Werner was my kindergarten teacher. He told us before winter break that in the new year, he is refusing to tie shoes. I came home that day with an urgent goal and before school started back up in ‘06 i was fluent in bunny-ear shoe tying. i remember when i learned how to tie it around your finger with no bunny ears and i felt like such a grown adult.
my lawyer brother who’s 26 does bunny ears and our dad makes fun of him for it.
My mum taught me bunny ears first--make two loops, then pass one over the other into the knot.
Then my stepmum told me idiots do it that way and taught me the way I use today, where you make one loop and pass the other lace around and under before knotting the resulting loops.
My left-handed brother taught me across the shoe.
First bunny ears, then the one loop, wrap around and pull through, and now I do a cool twisty method which is really fast and looks cool when you do it. Idk how to describe it
my favorite teacher told me that it was crazy at my age i didn’t know how to tie my shoes and i went home and learned how to tie my shoes
The SpongeBob way until I saw a video of how to do it in one go and I’ve always done it since. It was like 2008 or something lol
My older brother taught me 💓 no one will ever be as good of a man as my brother is!
That's great that you are so close!
Over, around, under and through, this is how we tie a shoe! Learned it about 63 years ago, taught my kids, can’t wait to teach my granddaughter!
YouTube tutorial haha
I was a very early reader and late shoe tier. Eventually, when I was in Kindergarten, my sis’ BFF showed me a method that stuck. Two big loops and tie together. It’s rarely been an issue, but do laugh about it when I see a child tying their shoes.
Hubs taught our son years ago so he didn’t pick up my ‘bad habits’ 😜
Your method is just fine! Lol
“Y’all are tying your shoes? I’m still wearing Velcro!”
I was taught the bunny ear way by a teacher. Never learned the other way, and I don't care to now.
My 1st grade teacher taught me after discovering I still couldn't at 6 years old. My parents weren't exactly the teaching type. RIP Mr. Rodriguez!!
My first grade teacher is still to this day one of my all time favorites even if she did almost accidentally unalive me lol (discovered a food allergy in her class)
I didn't.
Eventually it just clicked, just one day without being shown, after already being showed many times n not getting it at all because people’s fingers blocked me seeing the point between the one loop and tied with two. People didn’t understand what I didn’t get despite them blocking me seeing the most important part with their fingers. I was probably like 11 when it finally happened.
Made the victory that much sweeter!
Really did! Their massive fingers always stopped me seeing what they actually did, so what was I supposed to do 😭
You did what you needed to and get to pass it on now!
When I have some I’ll show my kids without blocking their view of what I’m actually doing!
There ya go!
Maaaannnn, watch Mr. Rogers tie his sneakers. Seriously. I did NOT learn it from him.
It was a process lol
I still don't know how to tie my shoes. That's why I wear slip-on boots. Great for every occasion.
My mom taught me.
Sister
Double loop was what was first taught to me so its what stuck
A classmate in kindergarten taught me once he learned. Shit was a game-changer.
idk how but i somehow taught myself when i was younger. i remember being frustrated abt not being able to tie them the way everyone else did with the bunny ears. I have not learned how to do it properly since. I also cant explain exactly how i do it but it works every time
My eldest sister said , after asking her to tie my shoes, that no sister of hers was going to kindergarten without knowing owing how to tie her shoes. I really don’t remember anything but that.
That was good of her to do!
My dad, but we didn't do any of the weird sayings to remember the steps, I just memorized the steps. I think it was incentivised with ice cream or something
Best friend. Bunny ears
My dad taught me when I was 6/7 :)
My step brother taught me when I was 4 or 5. I can still remember him talking about how the rabbit ran around the tree and through the hole etc… I cannot with the 2 loop thing.
Two loops (bunny ears) is all I got lol
I can’t remember how he explained it but I remember making a conscious effort to remember that the bunny had to run around the tree and through the hole or whatever… 🤣
Learned it on the streets my brotha
Idk I remember being old enough to know I was too old to still not know how to tie my shoes and mom said wanna know the easy or hard way I said easy and she taught me bunny ears.
I learned with difficulty.I think I have Dyspraxia.
Sesame Street
I have no recollection of that time in my life. Lol
Elmo on Sesame Street
I didn’t…
Fun story: My uncle Rayford taught me buuut, I tied shoes backward because he was facing me when he taught me. I mimic the way he taught me but it's different than most.
By watching the latest riveting episode of “Shoe & Shoelace”.
I don’t really remember, but I don’t recall two loops…
I honestly don’t remember. My mom says I just did it one day when I was about 2 then didn’t again for years. But I don't remember being taught and everyone that could have denies teaching me. As for how I tie them; make a simple knot, then make a loop with one strand and wrap the other strand around the loop then under to form the other loop.
Fluked tying a bow on my best friends easter bunny plushie when i was 16yrs old then applied that to shoe laces.
Mum didnt know how to teach me because i got frustrated very easily.
Turns out im just autistic, not stupid.
Some people have to learn on their own ...good idea tho about using the plushie
Somebody taught me
A sprint commercial where they talked about saving a few seconds here and there. Honestly kinda hard to describe because it's not like the bunny ear or other typical way to tie.
Edit: Video link! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q5qZpQe_4EA
I know there are so many ways and I have to be stuck with the simplest of the bunch 🤣🤣
Seemed like it took me forever to finally " get it" but it was by way of bunny ears.
I had never heard of the bunny ears method until I had a kid and was looking for instructions on how to teach him to tie shoelaces. That method just seemed completely weird to me.
I don't even know how to describe the method I learned, which I considered to be the normal method. I guess I would describe it as making one bunny ear then wrapping the other lace around it and shoving the lace underneath and tying it tight
When I was taught bunny ears it only made sense if you double knotted the ears. I do remember being taught the “proper” way and instead of bunny ears I remember being told to bring the snake around the bush (or something like that lol)
This is the way.
I could never figure it out so I do the tie, then tie loops, and since that always falls apart I tie loops again over it. I'm 45 years old.
I was taught by my PE teacher in kindergarten!!!
Definitely bunny ears. My dad taught me.
With my hands
Anyone else have that Snoopy doll in the 80s that taught you how to tie? It had snaps and buttons as well
I had an Ernie doll just like it in the early 2000’s
My kindergarten teacher taught us and our parents helped us practice and the kids who couldn't get it wore velcro shoes.
Bunny ears! And at 73 I still ie my shoes that way! 😄
SpongeBob
My Mom taught me. It pissed off Sister Whoever when I taught my kindergarten classmates.
SpongeBob. My mom tried so hard to get me to tie my shoes and I just couldn’t. That one SpongeBob episode did it for me lmao
You do the loopy loop and pull..