Barefoot homeschooling

Your very lucky to have a school that accommodates that. The dirtiest my boys feet get are in school shoes, we are in Australia so you can only imagine how hot the summers can be. Sandals aren't much better as the sweat just builds under their feet,

 

That's sad. It's true though. There are so many germs in shoes that just grow there and thrive, and then people have the illusion that their feet are clean. Since we homeschool them, they aren't made to wear shoes but they don't even own any, except for winter boots for when it's snowy cold.

My boys feet do get extremely dirty obviously. Running in a muddy garden barefoot or walking around in a supermarket turns their feet their feet dirty pretty quickly but they haven't faced anything super bad for their feet yet. Delaware is pretty nice.

 

I think one of the nicest sensations you can feel when you are barefoot is to walk across a warm parking lot then onto the cool smooth floors of a store. I have found there is a vast difference is the way some stores keep their floors. After walking in some your soles will still be fairly clean - with others it is a completely different story!

 

That's true, it really depends on the store usually. Walmart is always dreadful while others (small stores) are nicer.

 

Think this is my third favourite barefoot thing to do!

 

yes down here in New Zealand absolutely no issue for my kids to go barefoot to school.....I'd hate them wearing shoes and socks, getting all sweaty. They go on school trips in bare feet, I've even been "mummy helper" in bare feet, no problems. The kids were involved in a end of term school concert, and again they were barefoot, as were quite a few other kids. Of course, I was barefoot at the concert too!

 

Sounds great! I just posted when I was in school bare feet were strongly encouraged for all PE and I was occasionally barefoot in other lessons but I never went to school barefoot. That would have been amazing! Sometimes I would walk home from school barefoot and that was my beginning of becoming a barefooter.

 

That's why you should encourage them to take them off while seated at the desk so that their soles could breathe and not to contact with the sweaty insoles of shoes all the time