Timeline for My infant has started walking -- when should I start making her wear shoes?
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 21:51 | comment | added | Megha | A couple people said the foot won't get bigger - that is not my experience, but the difference in size is small and the feet are stronger. I know in India (bare feet are common there) shoes are generally wider than in the US, I think because the foot develops fully without relying on shoes for external support. But even then, it would take years and lots of long, strenuous walking while barefoot, to influence developing feet - and if so it would just mean looking for shoes in a wider cut style or marked extra wide or getting slightly long shoes, not any kind of real problem. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 0:38 | comment | added | Kai Qing | Skidders are a sock shoe. While I'd argue that there's no real reason to make your kids wear shoes at all, living in the desert and having all the pokey things around at least warrants some kind of middle ground. Ignore the feet growing up big thing. That's like the old Chinese assumption that burnt ashes and boy's pee will stop bleeding. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 6:56 | answer | added | Dariusz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 6:11 | comment | added | user13219 | I wonder what would happen if we bound our hands in equivalent wraps for as many hours in the day as we do our feet, especially when the bones are soft and growing. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 5:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackParenting/status/454122740900175872 | ||
| Apr 9, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | dotVezz | Oh, no! Not at all! It's an excellent question and I have no problems - I just figured that one line was redundant since authoritative answers are essentially the point of the SE network. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 1:33 | vote | accept | Aquarius_Girl | ||
| Apr 8, 2014 at 19:09 | answer | added | Chrys | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 18:31 | answer | added | Shawn C | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 16:40 | answer | added | Don | timeline score: 17 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 15:53 | comment | added | dotVezz | This may not be the case over here on Parenting so much as other SO sites, but isn't requesting an authoritative answer a bit redundant? | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 14:06 | answer | added | Tony | timeline score: -2 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 7:35 | history | asked | Aquarius_Girl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |