To get your shoes to stay tied, you need the two knots to go opposite directions. An overhand knot is the first kind you tie, before you do the thing that ends up with loops. To make an overhand ...

where you tie the starting knot in one direction, and the finishing bow in the other. Reef loops fall gracefully to the left and right sides of the shoe. Follow the chart below to see if you’re ...

When you move your foot forward, those loops lag behind the shoe, and when you stop ... three steps where you have two different options for how you tie them: A left-over-right or right-over ...

First, have your child cross one shoelace over the other and tighten as they typically would when starting to tie their shoes. Next, instead of making two loops, tell them to make a knot but stop ...

When confronted with the need to tie something off ... the length of the rope, forming a loop. Push the end through the loop, then repeat, forming two loops around the main part of the rope.

We all know the situation — you try to get your child to tie their shoes on their own to no avail. Even though there are plenty of shoe shortcuts available that bypass the need to tie shoes ...