I Go Barefoot In The Summer

Do you allow maybe even encourage your kids to go barefoot in public places during the summer?

It's coming upto the UK school summer holidays and you can guarantee my three kids shoes will be tossed to the back of the cupboard and left their all summer long. I let them go anywhere and everywhere in bare feet and they love that. They all happily play games in the neighbourhood streets, park and each others gardens barefoot as well as hike to the shops or day trips to the beach all with bare feet.

Of course I do occasionally join in on the barefoot fun!!

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Wlloyd · 80-89, M

I was a young child in the mid 1940’s to mid 1950’s and spent the summers barefoot almost all of the time and that was normal for most children who lived in rural areas and smaller towns. The summers I was 7 and again when I was 8 I never wore shoes from the day school ended until a few day before school in September. I never had a serious injury from going barefoot as your feet adapt very quickly.