Do Clark's do a certificate for babies first shoes?

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Can't see anything on the website about it but someone said they do?!

Honestly OP. Keep the shoes. That’s cute - a real memento - and one day you’ll stare at them and wonder at how small they are and where the time went.

A certificate will not be such a meaningful artefact:

Mine is 20 and these little certificates are in his memory box and I still like them.

How is your child learning to walk (thus needing shoes for the first time) some inconsequential thing? I thought everyone felt like their baby's first steps were an exciting milestone and it's fine to document that in whatever way suits you. God knows I've forgotten a lot of the little details of DC's babyhood and toddlerhood and they are still very small.

Also why are people being such absolutely needless dicks about what others do when it makes no difference to them? Pissing on someone else's chips doesn't make yours taste any sweeter!

@NeverGotMyPuppy I know, it's really awful. Some people must be really bored to have to come on a random thread and hurl abuse. It's weird & quite sad really.

Honestly OP. Keep the shoes. That’s cute - a real memento - and one day you’ll stare at them and wonder at how small they are and where the time went.

The rubber on my DS shoes rotted after about 15 years- my DDs are going strong after 25.

@ArriettyJones I lost one of DS's - we just have the one in his box (went to see Father Christmas with 2 shoes, came back with 1 ). Still, its sweet to keep it.

@NeverGotMyPuppy

Who knew Father Christmas was a shoe thief?

For some reason I have a lot of single tiny mittens and socks. But, hey, one is enough to look at the little glove, look at the enormous adult child, and remember. I’m getting a lump in my throat now!

Christ almighty.

Well, this is all very edgy.

I have certificates for two of my kids but the middle one didn't get one because the woman serving us said she didn't have time. The woman used to go to school with me and I guess that was her way of telling me she didn't like me. Thus are the sins of the mother visited on the children.

None of my children have had hysteroscopies.

@thistimeisshort I put ours in DD's scrapbook. There's a picture of me with "first X Y and Z" in scrapbooks my mum made when I was a baby and I love being able to look back on it now, it's harmless, and hardly the wankiest thing new parents do

I wouldn't use them to measure for kids shoes, a small independent shop is likely to have better trained staff. Clark's have always been awful at fitting my two.

My mum bought both DSs first shoes. We didn't keep the shoes as we had a Romanian friend who was taking stuff over and we donated most of their outgrown things. Quality footwear was hard to come by and as both DSs shoes were a 5 and a half, they weren't as cute as you might imagine :).

My point is that I don't have the shoes and only one photo, but it brings up memories of my lovely mum and her loving generosity now that she's no longer with us.

So, the sarky arse holes can bore off with their judgy shite. Honestly such sad lives they live. No doubt they'll be featuring on the teen board soon wondering why their DC have no respect for them.

We had Polaroid photos in a little cardboard mount with first shoes and the date on for both DC's first shoes at Clarke's.

@WaxOnFeckOff sorry about the loss of your mum. Milestones like that are lovely to share.

So, the sarky arse holes can bore off with their judgy shite. Honestly such sad lives they live. No doubt they'll be featuring on the teen board soon wondering why their DC have no respect for them.

Slight overreaction there. Shoe certificates are not necessary to gain your children’s respect.

I think parents put fat too much pressure on themselves to document, collect and record everything little thing.

We should all make the most of whatever reminders we have and treasure our memories.

Sorry about your Mum.

Some people are bloody miserable arent they! You get your child's first shoes because they've just learned to walk - most parents think that their child learning to walk is a pretty big milestone.

My DD is 20. I have a memory box with her Clark's certificate and photo, along with the shoes, plus loads of other stuff including my 20 week scan picture, the babygrow she wore home from hospital, her first ballet shoes, the first picture she did at nursery etc. I really don't think it's that unusual to keep mementos of your child being a child!

Some people are more sentimental than others, I certainly never wanted participation trophies or nursery graduations, I never had a PFB stage either. I definitely just 'got on with it' as a mother and didn't think I was the first new mum to exist ever. But I did document a lot of their childhoods, and kept a good deal of their random doodles, silly certificates from entering into colouring competitions at a bookshop, shells they gave me from the beach. When they're not so little anymore and your house feels very empty and quiet, their bedrooms turned into spare rooms and no dirty wellies by the front door, sometimes going through the (neatly stored so hardly 'lying around') childhood memories is a nice and comforting nostalgia trip.

Even if it is a marketing ploy, if you're going to be getting shoes there anyway why not. The world is a horrible miserable place let people enjoy their children and stop being so offended by people who feel like keeping a bit of paper that symbolises their child being able to walk for the first time.

Arrietty, thank you but that wasn't the point I was making. Some people like the mementos and some folk don't care, that's fine.

It's the attitude where people come on here judging people for having a different view and looking down their nose at them.

The point was that its the attitude of sneering and judging posters who are more than likely parents is quite nasty and that will rub off on the DC and then they wonder what they've done wrong. You see it on here all the time. Folk who wouldn't help their own child with things that they would happily do for a friend.

Anyway... :)

Aw - babies’ first shoes are so cute

My granddaughter got hers a week or so ago.

I've rang round lots of stores and they're all saying they don't do it anymore. I was gutted. My son got one in 2014 and I wanted another with my daughter but no.

That’s a bit sweet.

We have a tradition of the godparents buying the first shoes.

I’m not at all sure why anyone would be struggling to ‘understand’? Sure it’s not for you, but it’s hard to grasp? Really?