AIBU to ask in-laws to remove shoes?

How do people navigate summer when one isn’t wearing socks? 🧦 feel uncomfortable walking around people’s house sim bare feet

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I know what you are getting at. Precautions taken here. 🫡

You’d be better off getting visitors to wear medical grade face masks and wash their hands.

Clearly you’ve never experienced a child who is struggling to breathe because they have a common cold.

Children who suffer from bronchiolitis / wheeze can get seriously ill from the common cold. The common child has kept my child in hospital for a week, where he was close to being put on a ventilator as he just couldn’t breathe.

OP has already explained what happened to her child. What makes you think you know any better on how OP should have handled it?

I’ve been there many times with both my children and it truly is a horrible experience. Don’t be so patronising, as a small child struggling to breathe and with low oxygen levels is very much a medical emergency.

Very weird that you would choose not to visit someone unless you could get their floors dirty.

Actually I have changed my opinion about the tacky Temu sign - but put it on the front door so that it’s clear and people can decide whether to bother.

Nothing says ‘welcome’ like telling people they are unhygienic and have to put on some manky used slippers to walk on a germy carpet.

I think it's unlikely that that kind of bug would live on shoes, the more normal way of passing those on is by breathing in something in the air. However you are fine to insist shoes off in your house if you want.

If you’re an ‘shoes off’ person, that’s your prerogative (we would never ask people to remove their shoes as we think it’s really inhospitable).

Asking visitors to remove shoes is not going to stop your child getting coughs and colds. Shoes are not a breeding ground for these viruses.

If you’re that worried, make sure people with colds don’t visit.

This is the easiest answer. For older people walking without shoes can be tricky and painful (I can't walk without shoes). Taking shoes on and off can also be a problem so shoe covers are a simple answer.

Actual nurseries with babies and young children spending time on the floor all remove their shoes. Workers have indoor crocs they change into and children have their shoes taken off and put in a basket, before 2 they are able to go to the basket and retrieve their own shoes when they are instructed to for outside play.

School children aren’t typically playing on the floor.

Op I'm a shoes on house , we are all alive and fine !

I also find people who are extremely anal about shoes off often are massivley unhygienic in other ways.

However on this occasion you have my support which is rare in shoes off and on threads.

You have a very valid reason to try and reduce germs right now !
And they should both respect that.

All outdoor shoes were banned at our childrens nursery, staff and students had to leave indoor shoes that stayed at nursery. Come to think of it, when choosing nurseries they all banned outdoor shoes.

Wait til you read how much fecal matter is on all the surfaces in your bathroom!

Do you realise that every nursery and school in the Uk has children and staff wearing their shoes ALL DAY and those same children spend lots of the time ON THE FLOOR! Some people are just plain daft.

Not one of my friends or family insist on shoes off. Except my DD, who stupidly had white carpets fitted 🤪

A common cold is not transferred by someone wearing shoes. The likelihood is that someone sneezed in very close proximity to your child and passed on the virus that way. Also, why on earth do you need to ring 999 for someone with a cold? If you’re anxious, put them in the car or call an Uber!
Get yourself a decent doormat for people to wipe their shoes on before they come in.

I rinse (light soapy water.) and wipe his feet (doggy wipes) at the door, so does the whole family and so does the dog walker.

he likes to dig in the ground after peeing and of course who knows what he’s stepping on.

can you get them slippers they can get changed into?

We’re a strict shoes off household, we have slippers people can borrow if we wish, we also provide shoe covers for people who refuse to remove their shoes.

I never understand this comment. Are most people going about their day wearing dirty socks unless asked otherwise?

i was shocked the amount of dirt on a LVT floored house, when just one person came in with shoes on. I could feel it under my bare feet. The house is hoovered daily and mopped very regularly- so the floors are extremely clean.

if I can feel it on my feet the babies would be putting their hands on it and sticking it in the mouths. Regardless of the germs that is pretty disgusting.

it’s utterly irrelevant what other posters think about @tirednhn‘s stance on shoe wearing in her own home.

The point being massively missed is she has a poorly baby and she has expressly asked her father in law to do something that he is utterly disregarding.

Op… you and your husband need to be blunt if he walks straight into the house… just tell him ‘FIL… SHOES!!!!’

He would have to be very hard faced to leave them on!

it’s your house, you can have whatever rules you want and it’s ok to tell people they can’t come if they won’t follow them.

It isn’t them wearing shoes in your house that’s caused that though.

But I’m assuming you don’t make your dog wear feet covers so your dog is bringing these awful germs onto your floors anyway?

Do people not use a mop on mumsnet?