Barefoot Children

toontron

Each unto their own I suppose. But a pair of flip flops is about £1 surely?

looktothefuture

my stepson refuses to go barefoot and it drives me insane! He's always good trainers on! I keep telling him that bare feet are better than feet which are always closed up in shoes!

Barefoot at home/garden and playing but I always have shoes on if I go out or nip into the shops - even if I were broke, I could afford a pair of £2 primark basics!

JBD

Assuming the OP is genuine and not a wind up:- OP tell your friend to get in the real world. No one in our family wears shoes costing £30-40 and none of us have unhealthy feet. Summer shoes start at about £5 , winter shoes £10-15. This is a money saving site you know -so start looking around at different shops.As other posters have suggested, Primark is a good start, there are plenty of other cheap shops around.

Person_one

jinky67 wrote: »

well you teach your kids to look where they put their feet and problem solved;)

cobbles, gravel and chewing gum will do precisely NO harm to feet at all

Gravel is not the most comfortable! And if you're looking at the floor all the time you'd be bumping into people, lamp posts and bus stops all the time.

Edit. Apparently walking on the sort of solid surfaces we have these days rather than natural softer ones is actually bad for the feet. There's no 'give'.

poppyolivia

I think this is a wind up, poor kids they will get picked on and to be honest if I saw anyone wandering about the town with no shoes on I'd think they were homeless or tinks!

alfaromeo

Thanks for the answers,

Their school has a uniform of black shoes, although they do PE in barefeet

I posted to see what response I would get and not to wind people up. It is the narrow mindedness of people that I won't normally allow my daughter to go without shoes beyond the normal places where it is acceptable like garden/park/beach despite her demands to be allowed to.

Point out that flip flops can be very dangerous as they get easily caught and do not provide protection

jinky67

Person_one wrote: »

Gravel is not the most comfortable! And if you're looking at the floor all the time you'd be bumping into people, lamp posts and bus stops all the time.

Edit. Apparently walking on the sort of solid surfaces we have these days rather than natural softer ones is actually bad for the feet. There's no 'give'.

you get used to it after 2 mins, and yo would only be bumping into things and people if yo had NO spacial awareness

link please

Fang_3

If this is genuine, then I get the feeling that your friends were trying to guilt you into buying their child some new shoes.

galvanizersbaby

Fang wrote: »

If this is genuine, then I get the feeling that your friends were trying to guilt you into buying their child some new shoes.

lol! - now there is a thought! :rotfl:

galvanizersbaby

alfaromeo wrote: »

Thanks for the answers,

Their school has a uniform of black shoes, although they do PE in barefeet

I posted to see what response I would get and not to wind people up. It is the narrow mindedness of people that I won't normally allow my daughter to go without shoes beyond the normal places where it is acceptable like garden/park/beach despite her demands to be allowed to.

Point out that flip flops can be very dangerous as they get easily caught and do not provide protection

Flip flops are designed for the beach though I think and not for children (or adults) to walk any distance in

OP I think its not so much narrowmindness as in what folks might think about a child without shoes - i.e. acceptability - more a case of H&S if living in a town or city.

Hopefully when the child goes back to school they will be able to afford to purchase her some suitable footwear as opposed to simply painting her bare feet black!?
After all they could afford the trip to York as others have mentioned