What shoes does your Lo wear to daycare.

KateLouise · December 2010

So LO will start daycare in about 6 weeks, she'll be 12months.

She has never worn shoes, only socks when it has been cold.

I know that it's meant to be best for LOs to be barefoot for their feet to develop strength and balance.

I don't feel ok sending LO along barefoot, even though it's summer and very warm here, but I feel funny cramming her feet into shoes.

She's cruising furniture but not walking on her own yet.

Anyone send their LO to daycare barefoot?

starlingrose · December 2010

Im pretty sure your required to send them with shoes. You can buy soft soled leather ones oor booties if you want. I didnt start putting ds into hard soled shoes until 1-2 months ago but there was no point because he ripped them off allllll day. Now he wears fuzzy booties everywhere because he leaves them on lol.

nancyandnate · December 2010

It probably depends on the place--we sent our LO barefoot all summer when he was 10-13 months because he'd rip off all shoes and socks. Now he wears soft soled ones.

NHMountainBride · December 2010

How about just socks, or Robeez? DD went barefoot at the time at daycare. She goes to a small center. It didn't bother me.

KelliLynee · December 2010

We use an in home provider & they go out and about sometimes, so the babysitter requested some shoes for DD for the times when she insisted on standing (and eventually cruising or walking) on her own. I got some See Kai Run smaller soft soled shoes & told the sitter that I really wanted her barefoot in the house, and that these were just for when they are outside, since DD was pretty strongwilled about being able to stand and not be held in certain situations.

katiekate1974 · December 2010

Talk to the day care and see if you can send her barefoot. We didn't send AJ with shoes until he was walking alone and they were fine with that.

brideofscowboy · December 2010

He wore shoes/sandals, but now that it's winter, they wear slippers or Robeez-like shoes.

Blackvelvet · December 2010

DS has been walking since 11 months I sent softsoled shoes in his bag at first so they could put them on if they went outside. He didn't start wearing shoes regularly untill about a month ago he walks to the car now and its cold and snowy so he wears rubber soled shoes.

kelbrian · December 2010

You should at least send her in Robeez, which are leather soled booties. Target also sells a $12 kind called MiniStarz, and they work just as well.

You could also look into RileyRoos for outside shoes - they have a flexible sole and imitate barefoot walking. My DD wore those and Robeez/MiniStarz until she was about 18-20 months old.

emberlee3 · December 2010

Yes!

DS never wore shoes at DC (or anywhere else) until he moved to the toddler room. Then, it took a couple of weeks before he'd let us put shoes on him without a fit, so he was still going barefoot (it was summer) during that time. He was only crawling, and the teacher didn't care. Once he got used to the shoes and was pulling up/cruising, we sent him in soft-soled shoes.

Cityplanner · December 2010

Our center requires that they have shoes (while at the same time requires parents to take off their shoes. I never thought about that until now...). DD wears her Stride Rite sneakers. The little guys who are not walking yet wear Robeez or soft soled shoes.

smilelari · December 2010

Until recently we sent LO in socks only and most days he was barefoot by the time we picked him up. Now that it's cooler we're putting him in shoes, but mostly just to keep the socks on, LOL. He wears the target version of Robeez soft soled shoes.

thaira · December 2010

If shes not walking yet and they wont be playing outside...Id say robeez or the generic form from Target.

DD wears Target boots alot or her sketcher twinkle toes.

Id say tennis shoes would be good too.

I would send my child with shoes, but if you dont want dc wearing them all day just take them off when you get there along with her coat/hat.

makclair · December 2010

before he was walking well, he just wore some very soft soled shoes like robeez.

groovygrl · December 2010

Mine requires it too in the toddler (12 mo+) rooms, plus won't they be going outside to play? Mine have always worn sneakers (same ones every day...) - DS was walking about 6 weeks before going back to daycare after the summer so he went right into regular sneakers and DD was just starting to take steps when they went back so I got her some of Stride Rites early walker shoes which have a rubber sole & are really flexible (like you can fold them in half). At home they were (and are) always barefoot or in socks. Also I used pedipeds soft soled shoes in the early days- firm enough to protect from stepping on something hard but still super thin/flexible.

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