CAN WE PUT OUR CHILD SHOES USED BY ANOTHER CHILD?

If two days ago we told you in an entry that the typical recommendation to leave the baby's foot well fixed in its first steps was a mistake today we continue with the issue of children's shoes to talk about borrowed shoes.

It is very common for children to wear borrowed clothes. In fact, it usually happens that when a woman has a baby, her relatives and / or friends offer her a lot of clothes already used by her children. Sometimes even they had previously lent it to them, which is why clothes tend to be in good condition because of how quickly children grow. However, shoes can be considered a different garment and many people have this doubt that we will talk about today: Can we put our child shoes used by another child?

Experts say no

With clothes there is no problem. For more children who have put it on, when it reaches your hands, only two things can happen that make you back down: that it is really very damaged, and then you probably prefer not to use it, or that it is so old-fashioned that you prefer to wear clothes A little more modern.

Mind you, it is not that the child has to go to the last one, much less, but the minimum is that the clothes you put on seem minimally beautiful. Removing this, the fact that you put on a newer or older garment does not alter its psychomotor development in any way (unless you wear very tight clothes, but I suppose that is not the case).

However, shoes or slippers are more rigid and have a different function from that of clothing, which is to get in touch with the floor. Experts say that it is recommended that children do not inherit the shoes of their siblings or those of other children because they can be made at the foot of the other child and, as each child has a foot in a different way, cause chafing or discomfort, or They are directly uncomfortable. Come on we should only accept other children's shoes if they were brand new.

However, I have done it

I, on the other hand, have passed shoes from older brothers to little ones and, in fact, also from some cousin. And the truth is that I don't think he's the only one that does it. And it is not that I do not agree with the recommendation that I just explained a few lines ago, it is that I think it is very treatable.

When children are young, just as their bodies grow a lot their feet do too. It all depends a little on each father and mother and each child, but my children have always moved with two or three pairs of shoes or shoes that could be worn at any time. A pair as sport, more casual and comfortable and another pair to dress, if we dress a little more "arranged". As sometimes it seems that one of the pairs is getting small, we buy a third that alternates with the other two until some pair no longer fits them.

In this game of buying and removing, it can happen, it usually happens, that some of the pairs are in good condition. They are not completely new, but they are fine. We have saved these pairs for the next one and reused them. What if they have no interior shape? Well, maybe if they were children with more weight or that they gave more use to the shoes themselves, but considering that they use them only a few months, that they alternate them with other pairs and that they are light weight, I do not think that the footprint that They leave it marked enough to disturb the next carrier. Come on, I look at the templates and I see them well.

As children grow, when they reach age 6, to say an age, the foot no longer grows so much and the shoes no longer change so much because suddenly they do not fit (that too), but because they are already quite deteriorated. So we don't keep them anymore, but go straight to the trash.

So in summary, if some shoes are really very well done at the foot of the other child it is better not to take advantage of it. Now, if they have been used for a few months, if they are in an acceptable state and if we see that the template is fine, I would reuse them. They are not cheap, they last for a short time and the human foot is actually made to adapt to different irregularities.

In fact, there is nothing more advisable for a child's feet than to go barefoot, precisely so that he is treading in different ways and with different positions and gestures and, in that way, strengthen all the muscles of the foot. I do not think anything happens because you put on some shoes that another child has worn for a season if, as I say, the template is not very made at the foot of the other child and if the shoe is in good condition.

Now, as I notice, it is my opinion and it is what we do at home because it seems common sense. If you prefer to follow the opinion of the experts, do not do it, don't share shoes unless they are new.