My youngest has difficulties tying his shoes tight enough so that they stay. These help him put his shoes on for school without having the constant tying battle. For that, they're pretty awesome!

I give them 4 stars for quality. Although these are more functional than other brands we've tried, they fall apart pretty quickly. For the price, I'd like to get more than a few months of use out of them.

The nice thing about them is, if they're not dead when we go to the next size shoes, we can easily move them to the new shoes unlike other brands.