Friday, September 30, 2011

Barefoot Boy

Liam loves new shoes, but does not like to wear them?! I just bought him 2 new pairs of shoes for fall and he is constantly trying them on in the house, but get him to keep them on outside, No Way! He loves to be barefoot and will take his shoes off within moments, IF you can even convince him to put them on. Yesturday morning he came out of the house while I was waiting with Katie for the bus, barefoot and 0 degrees...in all fairness he had his shoes on his hands instead! The consequences of this - We are constantly losing shoes because he takes them off and strews them around the yard, socks too. He only wears socks in his shoes, never in the house, so that's not too often. Sometimes he'll dress himself and put socks on, only to take them off when he gets downstairs. Eventually we find the missing shoe/sock and sometimes before the mate has been tossed as a lost cause, sometimes too late.  And dirty, his feet are always dirty. Oh and splinters we have dug several splinters out of those little feet, thankfully he doesn't complain.





3 comments:

Bruce Duncan said...

Thank God that you have a happy healthy normal child. No child should be forced to wear shoes until they read teenage years to prevent damage to the soft bones of the foot during the formative years.

Anonymous said...

I was raised as a barefoot country girl, which may be why my three girls are being raised the same way. Boots outside in the winter, barefoot all other times. Since I homeschool them, they go weeks and months with bare feet. All three have properly developed feet with tough soles which rarely get splinters and their feet can handle running around the woods, walking across parking lots and over gravel with no injury. The only time they wear socks is when they go roller skating. They are 7, 9 and 11 years old. We live on a farm, all three ride horses, catch minnows in the pond, know how to raise vegetables and on a hot summer day, they'll strip off their shirts, shorts and undies and cool off in the lake. No preconceived ideas about being naked outside (so far no boys in the family). Each has a pair of boots for cold months and flip flops for those few places that absolutely require a child to wear shoes (not many thankfully).

I sometimes hear things like "they'll never get their (black) feet clean" or "they can cut themselves on broken glass" or "they'll get (wood) splinters in their feet.

Well first, neither my girls or I care if they have dirty feet. They will wash off fine when we get home. Second, my oldest has stepped on broken glass before, her feet are tough enough, not even a scratch. They usually pay attention to where they are walking. Third, all three know how to use a pair of tweezers to remove the rare splinter. They will actually help one another if needed. They also can cook, sew, ride a horse, gather eggs and milk a cow. They are very rarely sick and at very physically fit. All three can also swim, roller skate and climb trees with no fear of height.

So to the busy bodies who say "they need to wear shoes in public", I ask why?

If a child is raised to always go barefoot from birth, their feet develop tougher, their toes nicely spread and not scrunched into tiny shoes and can handle most surfaces. They can read, write, do math, know American history and haven't been brainwashed about the pillars of Islam.

There is no reason they need to wear shoes.

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