To not understand why some people make their DC wear slippers?

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I've just never quite grasped why some parents make their dc wear slippers. Surely they're a matter of personal choice?

What's going to happen to a child's feet inside their own home?

My friend...she's all "X put your slippers on!" in a stern voice.

Why?

I asked her once and she looked and said "It's cold."

Her DS is like my DDs and likes being barefoot or socked...what's up with that?

It wasn't cold inside and even if it was it's not cold enough to get frostbite or anything!

Do you make your DC wear slippers and why?

Havent RTFT but Bulbasaur your comment at 02.14 is incredibly naive. May be worth seeking to understand other people's experiences before telling someone who is struggling to make ends because they are surviving on a pittance in a world which demands more than they have even to provide the basics that they are doing it all wrong.

Why do you think food banks are thriving? Because people are living in genuine poverty and there are limited options available.

My mother would make the DC wear them at her house used to drive to the asda that is 5 mins away from her house on the way to visit to buy some ( we only visted 2 or 3 times a year) plus vests even though her house was way warmer than ours

We don't have any. We are a barefoot family. I think slippers are a bit naff.

Running around in one's socks or tights makes the soles black and difficult.

Crikey, I have a mucky house but have never experienced that.

Primal no me neither!

I'm genuinely really surprised that people make their children wear them in the sense you wash hands, flush the toilet etc. I'd have thought it was one of those things they have personal choice over. Of course if they moan "my feet are cold" they can put their slippers on - not sure thats happened very often tbh. Our house isn't particularly warm and we have laminate floors. Sometimes they will choose to wear them, sometimes not.

I'd hate someone telling me whether to wear them or not (I sometimes wear them and sometimes just socks).

Other families are strange ;)

Ha this is hystrical! i live in France (but am English) and here, not forcing your children to wear slippers is seen as neglect! my mil has a heart attack if they're barefoot when she comes round. this is becasue french people (i'm generalising obvs but it does seem to be most french people) think that if you are cold, esp if you have cold feet, you will get ill.

once at creche drop off, we couldn't find my son's slippers so i said to the head of the creche, it's ok he can just have socks or barefeet. and she was like barefeet!!!!! but madame if he doesn't have his feet covered he'll be ill by this evening!

Big obsession of my DH and PILs slippers, they were constantly tell DD, I've given up on it as I'm not that fussed, they even bought me slippers last Xmas. If they are near my feet I put them on if I they are not I do go bare foot. Our house are tiles so it is cold. They don't like the fact you get into bed with dirty feet.

Not sure if France is like Italy, in that over here it's all tile or parquet floors. I don't Ming walking barefoot on carpet.

I don't buy the kids slippers anymore, they don't wear them and I end up with random odd slippers everywhere. I would never force them to wear them. We have underfloor heating anyway so no issue with cold floors, sometimes they'll put on slipper socks.

France sounds a bit like Poland then.
According to my Polish outlaws I am a terrible mother due to my kids never having worn slippers.
I honestly find them a bit naff but then I grew up with central heating while the outlaws did not.

yeah France has tiles or parquet. we have parquet and I sometimes wear slippers, sometimes don't. i have nothing against them but it's the implication that my children will get ill if i don't force them to wear slippers which i find a bit difficult!

incidentally, the creche has underfloor heating....

I put carpets in in the end because it felt ridiculous to me to have to wear something on my feet in my own home as I love walking around barefoot. My feet were always cold on my sanded and varnished floor plus it's hard underfoot. I like the way the wooden floors looked but hated how they felt so covered them up with warm soft carpet :)

So the answer to OP question is no we don't wear slippers as none of us like wearing them.

We had a friend's children here while they were at a parent teacher meeting. We have wooden floors and the children were playing a sliding around game in the sitting room (my own children have never played this game before or since). One of them fell and cut his eyebrow on the glass coffee table, he had to have butterfly stitches. My children have slippers but are naturally very cautious children.

Stone floors.
Bashing your toes on things and hurting them and distracting my Mumsnetting with your wails.

To be fair though, I don't MAKE them, I just strongly advise it.

I'm in France and live in a very old place with stone floors throughout. We all wear slippers in winter as they are essential to avoid frostbite. Also wear about 5 jumpers. Scarves and coats have been known too. My DC don't complain about being told to put slippers on!

Agree with French paranoia about being cold = getting ill. It used to amuse me greatly that the teachers at primary make the DCs wear their coats to play sport!

I live in a very cold stone house with wooden floors. Dd wears a fleece inside most of the time but will happilly run around in bare feet. I have tried explaining that all of her would be a lot warmer if she wore slippers but she just does not like the feel of them.

Eventually, I realised that the solution was to buy "slipper socks" - fleecey ones with rubber blobs on the bottom to make them non-slip. She loves those.

I do make her wear them as otherwise she constantly wants the heating on and feels cold.

hhaha castles, the coat-wearing to play sport doesn't surprise me, mine aren't at school yet so i've got all that to come!

So we don't have another 8pm dash to the A&E (and subsequent 4 hour wait) to have a 2 inch sewing needle removed from the ball of the foot.

yes but your average slipper would not protect the foot from a sharp needle

I know someone who went to a private 6th form school in an old town house. They had to change into slippers at the front door to protect the floors. The old style pink kind with the fluffy band across the front. Pink for girls and blue for the boys. Naice!!!

We mostly insist - the DD's usually fall on their heads within seconds without them so it saves me the stress, and stops me sounding like a harridan shouting "don't run in the house" every 10 seconds. They are 2 & 4 though. I don't think I'll be so insistent when they are older and leave Lego lying around. That's their look out.
While I still have to wipe their noses and hold icepacks on bruised heads they'll have to live with wearing slippers.

I make my two (17 and 7) wear slippers or socks. Our 2 cats are very good mousers. I don't fancy have the kids traumatised after having trodden on a skinned dead mouse or worms etc....