Anyone else got a child who HATES buying new shoes?

[hunkermunker]

DS1 loves having his feet measured.

But when new shoes are mentioned, he runs away.

The only shoes he will even entertain going on his feet are "brown shoes" and even then, they're often "too tricky" for him.

He likes his old shoes. Ones we struggled to get him to put on, obv.

And they don't make them like that any more. Well, they make them in blue. And red. But he wants brown. And only brown.

"No, Mummy, I want my old shoes. Those new ones have a twisted strap" (it's a cross-over zig-zaggy one, so obv the work of Satan).

He won't believe me that his feet will one day soon be too big for his old shoes... He grinned and shook his head wryly at his fool mother for suggesting such a thing.

I think he'll be a chartered accountant or...an actuary! Brown shoes. Not red. No flashing lights. Brown shoes.

Your children all waltz into the shop and skip out again with their new shoes?

how old? ds is like this too until recently..

its shit...i had it with shoes, have it with clothes, bankbooks, yes ..
... i want the old not the other...

he howled bawled til red and blotchy in clarks, gently coaxed to midly restrained (didnt like measure either)..and i refused to do it alone anymore...taking reinforcements...but, recently he is fine and the shoe computer appeals more than the measure, just seems to have grown out of it..

you are not alone!

'Fraid so, but mine is a girl. Say no more.

DS moans and grumbles. DD's eyes light up and she runs round the shop finding the girliest, least practical pair to beg me for.

He's 3.6.

He does quite like pink shoes. Maybe I'll get him some sparkly ones next time. Actually, I think he'd squeak quite loudly if I put anything other than brown shoes on his feet, but he likes the idea of pink shoes...

My Izzy hates buying new shoes, or new anything for that matter. Like your ds, she doesn't mind having her feet measured but then either screams and refuses to stand up in the new shoes or walks about in them saying "hurt me, hurt me" (and I'm pretty sure they don't. We have extreme temper tantrums over new coats and she likes choosing her own clothes from the wardrobe. She's only 2.7 but us already a little fashion tyrant

DD is a nightmare. It took weeks to get her school shoes, as every pair in the South-West hurt her feet with the exception of 1 pair she liked, but I knew they were 2 sizes too small. It is hard as you can't call their bluff with shoes, and she knows it. In the end we got a Clarks girl on side, who fitted her and said there was no way they could hurt. Funny, they don't hurt at all now she has them. Trainers, we had to get boys, as she is anti pink, and there are no girls trainers without pink in the world, as far as I could tell!

The only shoes she tried on willingly were her Peppa Pig wellies and she'd go to bed in them if she could.

You mean there are some people here whose children DIDN'T go through a phase of hating buying shoes?

The nice ladies in Clarkes have seen it all before. The other mummies are just glad that its not theirs having the meltdown this time.

They grow out of it - if you're lucky, to just the extent my DD has now, whereby I know that if she says she needs new trainers, she needs new trainers.

Rachel - we had to get 'predominantly white' trainers for school PE when DD hit juniors. Clarkes CICA useless - have to go to sports shop for Reeboks. white with a little pink or (hurray) navy trim.

I've NEVER seen another child in a shoe shop complaining about new shoes.

And definitely not in the way DS1 does. He's very earnest about telling them exactly why he won't wear the new shoes and why he prefers his old ones. And he says thank you, nice lady.

Ahem. Not suggesting for one moment that DS1's the only child to ever complain about shoes, obv. Just that all the ones that do go at another time or to different shops!

we have frequently had to abandon a shoe-buying trip ... once we were asked to leave john lewis as ds1 was screaming so much

I still have to psych myself up for shoe-buying and they're now 10, 7 and 5 tomorrow ...

At least if all our children were playing up in the shoe shop at the same time, we wouldn't feel so alone! I would pity the poor shop assistant though, as one temper tantrum over not having the ones with the bloody toy in the heel is enough at any one time! LOL
And while I'm moaning, why do they make what I consider to be adult shoes in little sizes- she can't have them no matter how much she begs/cries/whinges- delete as appropriate.

DD is just a month younger than your DS hunker and she adores shoe shopping. I had to drag her from the shop when I got DS's school shoes and she wasn't allowed any. While I was sorting out DS, she had quietly taken off her shoes and found the appropriately sized measuring tool and was sat waiting even though I had already said that she couldn't have any shoes this time.

DD doesn't mind shoe shopping until I tell her she can't have any of the boys shoes she has picked out - and show her the girls shoes.

Then the screaming ensues!