No Shoes

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Is it weird or OK to let your children go out with no shoes on?

Neighbour's daughter goes everywhere with no shoes on, apart for school that is. Gave into pressure and allowed my seven year old daughter to go to a travelling fair at the park today barefoot but felt uneasy about letting her do so, although not sure why.

And feel a little silly asking this!

Was about to post on the commonplace nature of going barefoot in Australia, but someone got there first.

What is odd is the way teenagers routinely sit on the ground, waiting for a bus, eating lunch at school. Not just in the summer, either. Unless it's raining, they'll sit on the ground.

Very little dog shit here, though, and the red back spiders are in leaf litter, dustbins and letter boxes for the most part.

Oh, by the way I'm in England.