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Originally Posted by moominmamma  This is no help whatsoever, but I just thought I'd throw this observation out. My ds was a very late shoelace-tyer (around age 9 1/2) but an exceedingly early two-wheeler rider (age 3) and we noticed a similar pattern amongst some of the kids we know. So we did a "study" a year or so ago where we polled people on the age their kids learned these two tasks. We discovered a clear negative correlation between the two. If you learned to tie shoelaces early, chances are you'd be closer to 8 or 9 before you learned to ride a two-wheeler, whereas if you ditched your training wheels at age 3 or 4, chances were you'd be still battling with shoelaces at age 8 or 9. And there were lots of kids who learned both skills at about age 5 1/2. We plotted the data on a scatter-graph and used linear regression to plot the line of best fit.
Miranda
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This is interesting. I'll throw in our stats for the fun of it. My 2 oldest DDs each learned to tie their shoes around 4.5 after asking me out of the blue to show them, but they had NO interest in learning to ride their bikes w/out training wheels until I took them off and left them no other option at ages 7 and 9. They learned in a week since it took a couple days for them to
want to learn to ride after I took the T wheels off. (My eldest was ticked for a couple days.
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My youngest DD will be 5 in nine days, and she has yet to ask about tying shoes. She is a much stronger biker than her older sisters at age 5, but they didn't have older siblings to emulate like she does. (I say
they b/c they are only 18 mos apart, and my middle DD is the more physically active one. They sort of balance out.)
I did tie shoes pretty early, though, around three. 
