Barefoot

andreawhite

My sister now lives in New Zealand from where I recently came back from visiting her and my nieces

My nieces aged six and nine go barefoot everywhere including school despite New Zealand having a similar climate to the UK. Within a few days my seven year old daughter was going round with no shoes on too

Been wonder what the reaction be here if I allowed my daughter to go barefoot, would it be feasible, would it be allowed?

PrincessPlaty

Surely for school they would be wearing shoes for health and safety reasons

Loopy_Lobes

I wouldn't want my children in school barefoot. At home, in the garden, on the beach etc yes barefoot is fine and healthy for growing feet. But in school they are likely to get her toes trodden on constantly and not very practical for running around the playground, I'm thinking stones, twigs, acorns, rusty old nails? she could really hurt herself.

andreawhite

PrincessPlaty wrote: »

Surely for school they would be wearing shoes for health and safety reasons

They didn't although it is a tiny school

My daughter does PE barefoot in school

PrincessPlaty

PE in a hall is slightly different to doing a whole day in school barefoot though

As Looby quite rightly pointed out there are a lot of things that could injure a childs foot in school if they were to be in bare feet all the time.

I certainly wouldnt be happy with my children being in school with bare feet all the time and that is coming from someone who hardly ever wears shoes

I go to the shops in bare feet, walk around the house in bare feet even popping to friends houses in bare feet, but my children always have shoes on unless they are in the house/garden or similar situations at friends houses etc.

Hectors_House

I grew up in New Zealand and we ran around barefoot all the time.

Ther wasn't a big population back then and they were strict about dog fouling etc so it was safe.

We used to wear shoes to school but you were then allowed to take them off (I can remember a row of shoes outside the library at my primary school in Beach Haven, Auckland).

I'm not sure it would be so feasible here with the amount of dog fouling that still goes on, and littering.

Its a pity. It's a very freeing feeling....not too good for your arches though!

quatrofromageo

Well, there are these shoes called vibram five fingers for barefoot walking, but they aren't exactly cheap!

Buttonmoons

I love being barefoot, obviously it's not practical to be running outside with no shoes here, because of the broken glass everywhere, fag butts, gum and dog poo! I wear the next best thing to bare feet, flip flops! All the time. Dreading when Winter really comes....sob.

quatrofromageo

Then it's time for the ultimate crime -flip flops and socks!

nickyhutch

I go barefoot whenever I can. Always at home, and at work if I'm in the office. I work in schools too, though, and I don't think they'd like it, although if I'm on my high heels and in tights and standing up all day, I pop my shoes off sometimes.

tandraig

am a barefoot person too. I do wear shoes etc when going out tho. lmao can think of couple of occasions where people have commented on me being bare foot tho
1 - when walking up pebbly beach barefoot no probs - two guys behind me one says 'how the hell can she walk up here with no shoes on! turned round to find them struggling with flip flops on
2 was at tae kwon do contest and outside smoking a ciggy - (ducks as the antismoking mob throw missiles) and this guy says ' oh they think they are hard bet the smokers arent'. so i put ciggy end down and squished it with bare foot. they disappeared. (what they didnt know was i was so busy talking my ciggy had gone out anyway!).