Kids Barefoot With Parents

I SO hope you are right. Grimy, dirty feet should be the norm, and the health benefits of being barefoot are many. Bare feet are free feet!

 

Definitely. There really are no benefits to wearing shoes everywhere you go, unless you work for a shoe company like Nike or something. But yeah, I do genuinely think that in the future, there could be a movement for barefeet. Eventually, footwear will be a thing that you will only wear if you are doing something formal or if the weather is stupendously hot or cold. Or maybe I'm a loon. Maybe a lot of the latter.

 

Being sensible makes you a "loon" in this world. Don't be dissuaded.

 

That's when I remember being barefooted was a thing - when I was little. I wanted to be barefooted all the time. Eventually, I learned that it'd be cooler to wear shoes.

 

Being different makes you a loon here, even if you are right.

 

NOOOOO

you were meant to resist them, not join them! Please tell me you went back to the good ways!!?

 

Huh? Ok. Whatever makes you comfortable .

 

I’ve been hoping for barefeet to go mainstream for decades. It was for a short time when I was growing up but where I live it seemed to be far and few between. I have seen a couple of avid barefooters here in years past but basically I’m the only one.

 

I mostly fly under the radar around my area. I bet if more people started going barefoot in stores, some would put up signs. Sure, if we reached critical mass, stores would be dumb to turn away that many customers. But it's more likely it would go from the occasional lone barefooter like myself to a few a day, or just enough such that management might take notice and get concerned about liability, real or imagined. Dunno, maybe it's an unrealistic concern on my part.

 

spring down here in NZ, summer just round the corner. There are literally people in bare feet everywhere, including me and my kids. We went to a outdoor market and farm day on sunday here in Auckland. There were dozens of parents and children in bare feet, no sign of any shoes anywhere!

 

its not like strolling around with your dick out..

 

You may be correct . Liability is a concern.

 

Wear the tops of chopped of black shoes, problem solved. After a while, your soles will get black enough that if anybody is looking at your feet, they won't notice that you are barefoot.

 

I did this with a pair of hide moccasins. Removed the bottoms and tied a piece of heavy black nylon thread across the center bottom to hold them on my feet. I use these in those problem places that absolutely do not allow bare feet. They work great for keeping your soles tough and dirty,but can’t substitute for actually being barefoot.

 

Certainly liability is a concern but is only an imaginary risk on the part of the proprietor. Any defense attorney worth hiring would immediately plea "presumed risk" on the part of the barefooter. The theory is that the barefooter presumed the risk of his/her own behavior since the option to wear footwear was available.

 

OOPS! Meant to say "on the part of the proprietor".

 

That would take a revolution in the mindset of "mainstream". People tends to grow ever more weak, cowardly and dependent from their stuff, drugs, ingrained beliefs and safe zones. It is hard to imagine the public shedding the protective shells they're desperately trying to build all around themselves. Because boy are they scared.

 

Hopefully it'll happen one day. People will eventually choose the healthy option.

 

I think that their is a perfectly logical explanation for what the OP opened this thread with.
The children were probably wearing new shoes for their day out, and after trudging around for a few hours, started getting blisters. In this situation, taking their shoes off would not seem at all odd, particularly if they lived in a rural environment and were visiting the city..

Their is a trendy nightclub in Wimbledon and we live a few miles away. Every Friday and Saturday night, their are girls walking past our house at 2'am in the morning carrying their 6 inch heels. Seeing the pained expression on their face, crossing the gravel verges is so funny, particularly when the temperature has dropped to minus figures and they are just wearing a boob tube and pelmet for a skirt.
One night a few years ago when I was putting the recycling out, I found a girl shivering on our garden wall. She looked in such a state that Jane invited her in for a hot drink and gave her a ride home.
How parents allow their young daughters to walk alone through the streets of London in the early hours of the morning half drunk and dressed like that amazes me. The girl told Jane that she was 16.

 

I know how that is I made a trip to Montana 2 months ago and the people at the rest stops from young and to old people gave me dirty looks and I could hear what they where saying.. It was not good but I don’t care what other’s say it my lifestyle and I would not change it for anything. Yes it’s hard to find someone that is ok with me going barefoot all year around. But my friends are good with me going barefoot everywhere. The only good thing was I was barefoot my hole trip .