Soft soled shoes for infants

aetg · October 2012

I'm not sure if I've ever seen this on here, but soft soled shoes for infants seems to be an AP thing so I'll ask. I've been using socks, slippers, and now Skidders with my son who is now 15 months. How long have you all used soft soles shoes with your kids? Is there an age or developmental thing for it?

I know that they make five finger shoes for kindergarteners because I had a kid last year in class who had the so I guess it could go on indefinitely? Just wondering what the norm is.

nosoup4u · October 2012

My older son went to PT when he was younger, and his PT said to make sure they have very flexible-soled shoes until they can walk really well. If you can fold the shoe in half, the sole is flexible enough.

I found these shoes for my younger son when he was an early walker, and they're great. They're Robeez, but have a plastic sole, so they hold up better:

https://www.zappos.com/shoez?zfcTest=pd%3A1

My kids primarily wear sneakers after about 18-24 months. hth!

Emerald27 · October 2012

DS is always barefoot at home, but with the weather getting cooler we just bought him these for going out:

https://www.striderite.com/store/SiteController/striderite/productdetails?catId=cat1530400SR&subCatId=cat1530743SR&&viewall=&subCatId=cat1530743SR&productId=prod1830008&stockNumber=BB41372&catId=cat1530400SR&productdisplayName=Stride+Rite+SRT+Soft+Motion+Chase&skuId=***8********BB41372*M040&pageIdentifier=productdetail&catdisplayName=Baby+Boy&showDefaultOption=true

Hmmm...can't make it clicky. They're stage 2 stride rite's...he's cruising and wanting to walk on his own, but hasn't taken his first step yet!

ncbelle · October 2012

If by soft-sole you mean the "robeez" type shoes...once kiddos could walk well, we switched to "regular" shoes (mostly keens and chucks) for outside. Inside they go barefoot. If they were in daycare where shoes were required indoors, I might still stick them in knock-off robeez (we used the shoe zoo brand off ebay) because I think those are more comfortable.

aetg · October 2012

Thanks for the help, I'll check for the knock off Robeez. For some reason the stores around here have a bunch of Robeez socks, but not any of the actual shoes so I hadn't known there were many varieties of them.

pixieprincss · October 2012

We do barefoot inside and Robeez outside unless it is wet out. We have some hand-me-down hard-soled shoes for those days. DS1 is 21 months old. I think that Robeez are wonderful quality, so we buy ours on consignment to save money but get the quality. With knockoffs, beware of non-leather. Leather is really the way you want to go for kids who walk in terms of protection, breathability, and duration.

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