Raising Barefoot Children

yeah well im grown now so I dont have to hide anything from them (except pot lol) .... but no like i said I agreed with wearing shoes while riding my bike...i was laways doing some crazy shit on there and gettign hurt bad enough anyways....the only reason they wanted me to wear shoes anyways was cause my mom used to ride her bike barefoot when she was a kid and got her toe or something stuck in the chain...but yeah its all good.

 

I think its pretty easy not to get your foot caught in anything on the bike if youre careful when pedalling. I used to ride a bike *never barefoot* and I never got my toe caught in anything. It would probably be easier and more fun to ride a bike barefoot anyways.

 

Ok dude...Im sorry for riding my bike with shoes on as a child.

 

I'm not sure how you'd get a toe caught in the chain when you're just riding normally... and I'm from bicycle country here, *everyone* has a bicycle and rides it almost daily... no one wears a helmet either for normal traffic. On the other hand, when you're fooling around on it, it might be a good idea to wear some protective clothing

 

The only issue with kids going barefoot is... well athletes foot sucks.i used ot get sick through my feet all the time. strange as it sounds, i got bronchitis and they think i contracted it through ym feet. i go barefoot from about march/april until about november. well i did. this year i started getting bonchitis at least once a month. and my doctor said i might have contracted it from my feet.

I live in windsor ontario and we are incredibly filthy. my feet are stained black from march until december. since i got chronic bronchitis, it's alot easier for me to catch pneumonia and for it to be fatal.
letting your kids go barefoot is wonderful, but you have to think about the fact that it's very easy to get sick through your feet.
i suggest having them bring sandals with them to school to go into bathrooms at the very least.

 

When I was a kid I was forced to wear shoes. During that time, I caught colds all the time, and had episodes of athlete's foot. I also had bad posture and back pain. Since I stopped wearing shoes for the past 19 years, I have hardly ever caught a cold and *never* had athletes foot or any other health problems. My posture is very good now and I have no pain. Going barefoot prevents athletes foot- provided that the feet are consistently bare. The problem is that putting feet back into shoes causes the germs and fungus to grow and multiply. Then the germs can get transferred into the nose and lungs and cause bronchitis. But if you keep your feet dry, the germs never get a chance to multiply. The proof of this is in the smell. Dry bare feet are never smelly, even if they are dirty. But put shoes on and your feet may smell bad soon. The smell is caused by waste gases given off by large numbers of bacteria. They grow only in the warm moist environment provided by shoes.

 

There's also the myth that cold feet cause colds... especially since a recent research project where they chilled the *body* and the *method* they happened to be using was putting the test subjects' feet in cold water... unfortunately a lot of papers reported in error that the cold feet caused the increased chance of getting a cold... but on CNN, there was a more detailed article plus video, and there one of the researchers clearly explained you had an increased risk of getting a cold when your *core* temperature dropped, and that the feet just happened to be the method they used to make that happen. So if you keep the rest of your body warm enough, you should be fine. Perhaps you were pretty lightly dressed overal? I often wear legwarmers and the like when I go barefoot and it's chilly!

 

i wasn't getting cold. when i started getting bronchitis it was in the summer.
and since i go barefoot only in the house now, i don't get it anymore. or not as often at least. i've had it about twice since i started wearing shoes.
it's not shoes i have a huge problem with, it's socks.
i usuallly wear shoes without socks now.

 

There is no way going barefoot will drirectly give you bronchitis. Its possible you were barefoot in the cold and were not dressed warmly which would cause that.


bronchitis is caught from entering your mouth, nose, eyes not your skin, so unless you put your feet near those areas its not possible.

Also about athletes foot. Going barefoot actually gets rid of it and before I went barefoot I had a severe problem with athletes foot that no spray was working, my Doc told me to go barefoot for a month as much as possible out of school so thinking he was crazy at the time I did and it cleared out in 2 weeks. Yes you can catch it by going barefoot but only in wet places like pool or shower where someone else did and then slip into shoes with still damp feet, it will trap the fungas and cause it to grow.

If you look at this article:
http://health.discovery.com/encyclopedias/illnesses.html?article=2761

Its for fungal nail infection but its shows the cause it athletes foot and it lists one of the cures as going barefoot as much as possible (Says at home but thats just to protect them from any problems people have if they went barefoot outside their house.) You will also notice one of the causes is going barefoot in the shower or pool.