tying shoe lace

this morning, amjad proudly told me, "i can now tie up my shoe lace."

amjad is 10.

how times change. when we were in school, of course one of the most important things we have to learn before going to standard 1 was how to tie up our shoe laces. the teachers were not going to tie up our shoe laces for us if we didn't know how. those who had that pre-velcro type of shoes then were the 'rich' kids.

now, the only shoes these kids want to wear to school are velcro shoes. like we're going to buy them anything else -- it's not that we're richer, but velcro shoes are now the same price as laced shoes, and we'll by-pass the hassle of teaching the kids how to tie up their shoe laces and worse still -- hunting for lost shoe laces!

the other kids have yet to realize that there are shoes with laces.