NO STRESS!!!
Which you probably wouldn't anyway... But my husband made shoe tying so traumatic that for 3 years my son would go into panic mode, and 4 years later still won't tie them.
I would think it was just my jerk being a jerk, but ive met soooo many 4th & 5th grade parents who ran into the same problem. They made shoe tying stressful, and their kids freaked and couldnt tie shoes for years following.
The thing is... Laces are 'old technology'. There are still lots of shoes with laces, but there are as many if not more, without sort of like how boot hooks went out of vogue 2 generations ago. Velcro, slide ties, elastic laces, zippers, even hook and eye (which laces bumped out of fashion) are everywhere. Add in boots and slip ons, and laces are just one option of many). Neither my kid not the other 9 & 10 year olds who don't tie their shoes have problems with other knots - we sail, he does knits galore), it's just the shoe thing.