Barefoot Children

Nitha

lol I do hope this is a hoax!

But hoax or not it does remind me of a lot of people I know who 'can't afford' bits for their kids. Met one woman who didn't buy her baby girl a thing on her first Christmas because she couldn't afford it yet forks out £40 a month gym membership!

Hoax or not provisions should always be made for the needs of a child over the wants of an adult

galvanizersbaby

skintchick wrote: »

As a tenager I used to go barefoot all the time, everywhere, and gravel, etc., doesn't hurt at all. I still go barefoot as much as possible now, and once when it was raining very hard and my shoes got filled with water, I walked across central London barefoot to a date, carrying my shoes, as it was easier. I can still remember how lovely the wet pavements felt on my feet![/QUOTE]

Skinty...lol! I've think many of us have ended up doing that for one reason or another at some point.
In my case a broken heel was often the cause

But question is...will your little girl be walking barefoot (once she's old enough) through the city streets?

sp1987

On first glance I thought this was a thread about babies in prams...to which my reply was going to be 'well yes we often don't put socks on our son but just take them out with us as his feet are a good way for him to let out heat easily as he gets quite hot'.

God knows why I was ready to justify myself as this thread is basically about !!!!! people who won't buy their children any footwear?!

We were designed to walk barefoot, before some 'daft fools' wearing shoes invented gravel driveways, broken Stella Artois Bottles and pavements where animal (or indeed human, in many places!) excrement does not degrade.

I just hope this thread is a wind up? If not this forum has quickly changed from Money Saving Expert...a good place to save a few quid...to 'never buy anything essential which is given as a priority to homeless children in the third world but our kids can somehow do without' Expert. Shittt.

Pixiechic

This thread is hilarious!:rotfl: I love loads of the comments. I'm sure it has to be a wind up!

Pixiechic

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.

Hahahahaha :rotfl: Brilliant!

karren

alfaromeo wrote: »

Is it acceptable this day and age?

My good friends have both been my redundant this year, she in January and he in March, they hhave a daughter who is seven, same age as ours.

Their daughter now goes barefoot, they say they can not afford £30 to £40 for shoes and she is better of barefoot then in cheap shoes

My mind says there is nothing wrong in that and when the weather was nice I had no problems with it.

Now the weather is not so nice I find myself wondering how acceptable is it




We went on a day trip out to York, it was wet and cool but my daughter insisted on taking off her shoes too and the girls had a thrill of a time running along the wet streets splashing through puddles.

So is there anything really wrong with letting your children be barefoot

Sorry this is child abuse! the benefit system will make sure that they can afford shoes, and Any normal parent would go without for thier children to have shoes end of story!

carolinejane_2

I know it's ignoring the bigger issues of this thread but the thought of children playing barefoot in the summer does make me smile

that said the dangers of doing it on streets and in crowds is another matter

skintchick

galvanizersbaby wrote: »

skintchick wrote: »

As a tenager I used to go barefoot all the time, everywhere, and gravel, etc., doesn't hurt at all. I still go barefoot as much as possible now, and once when it was raining very hard and my shoes got filled with water, I walked across central London barefoot to a date, carrying my shoes, as it was easier. I can still remember how lovely the wet pavements felt on my feet![/QUOTE]

Skinty...lol! I've think many of us have ended up doing that for one reason or another at some point.
In my case a broken heel was often the cause

But question is...will your little girl be walking barefoot (once she's old enough) through the city streets?

Why not? If she wants to, I'm cool with it.

Interestingly, both of us were out front today in our cul de sac, barefoot, and I was holdng her hands while she walked round, and one of my neighbours came over and said the pavement was too hard for her baby feet and I should put her in shoes. I said she was fine, so she repeated her baby feet (her phrase) were too soft to be on the pavement.

weird, cos my DD was perfectly happy and was the one who wanted to walk about out there!

Maybe we are all too hung up on shoes? As long as you look out for glass (not much round here), dog poo (ditto) and other nasties, then it's fine to be barefoot IMO.

mumslave

my kids are always barefoot in the house, but then we have laminate and I dont want them falling and cracking their heads. In the winter, I have socks with the grips on them, that they sometimes wear but mostly they prefer bare feet.

Out with the home, the only bare feet times are paddling pools and beaches!

delain

Same here, maybe shoes off in the garden very occasionally if I've checked for nasty surprises but the rest of the time it's shoes or sandals outside!

Can't imagine the hassle from family and just about everyone if I took them out to town barefoot God knows what would happen if someone cut their foot badly and needed to go to casualty... Oh yes, I know, social workers would visit and accuse me of neglect! Not unreasonably either under those circumstances. Certainly fits under 'failing to make sure child is adequately dressed' which is one of their little tick boxes.