Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Holidays

Use our Travel forum for recommendations on everything from day trips to the best family-friendly holiday destinations.

Flip

Original poster

just out of interest, do you let your toddler walk with bare feet in the sea abroad?

24 replies

lizandlulu · 29/04/2008 10:27

just wondering if i am being over protective. we are going to benidorm on monday and am going to get her some shoes for in the sea as the thought of her walking bare foot sendsc shivers down my spine!
am i being ott??

OP posts:

hanaflower · 29/04/2008 10:27

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster

lizandlulu · 29/04/2008 10:34

i have got her some peppa pig croc type things from asda, and they would be fine in water, i just dont think they will be secure enough and have visions of one floating away!

there are some like surfy shoes in a shop in town for £3, they do up with a toggle. think i will get some of those.

just wanted to know if others wore shoes in the sea or let their children walk bare foot.

OP posts:

ROSEgarden · 29/04/2008 10:36

dd has some crocs or previously wore jelly shoes (both with strap at back to stop them slipping off)

FYIAD · 29/04/2008 10:37

we have beach shoes with a toggle fastening

good for rock climbing too

FYIAD · 29/04/2008 10:37

mind you dd1 (8) refuses anything except bare feet

cornsilk · 29/04/2008 10:38

We usually have beach shoes. Last year ds2 wouldn't wear them and was stung by a jellyfish. Ds1 came to the rescue with a bucket of piss.

Brangelina · 29/04/2008 10:39

Mine walks barefoot. I only make her wear jelly sandals in the lake as the rocks are sharp, but in the see always barefoot so she can move freely and is less likely to fall over.

SSSandy2 · 29/04/2008 10:40

dd never had those beach shoes

cupcakesinthesnow · 29/04/2008 10:40

Not bare foot in this country even as weaver fish are agony. Only barefoot if swimming off boat/pontoon where there is no chance of their feet touching the sandy bottom. When you have heard a 5 year old scream with the pain of a weaver fish stong you don't for get it in a hurry.

cupcakesinthesnow · 29/04/2008 10:41

sting not stong

SSSandy2 · 29/04/2008 10:42

what country is this cupcakes? And I'm wondering just what a weaver fish is, doesn't sound liek anyhting good though

bellavita · 29/04/2008 10:43

yep, barefoot

hanaflower · 29/04/2008 10:47

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

cupcakesinthesnow · 29/04/2008 12:07

You ger weaver fish in the UK. They are nasty little buggers and very ugly looking. They bury themselves shallowly in sand and when a foor comes along and treads on them their spikes stick in the foot and sting. On the beaches in the UK the lifeguards will give you a bucket of hot as you can bear water to try and ease the pain but I know grown adults who have had to go to A&E with the swelling and pain. I got stung on the hand a few years ago when I stupidly went to take a stray weaver fish (that I mistook for a bleeny) out of a prawn pot it had got into. We were a mile from land on a small boat with no hot water.

Original poster

lizandlulu · 29/04/2008 12:16

i think she will definately be wearing some type of shoe then. i didnt want to force my fears on dd but will do to stop her from getting stung.

OP posts:

belgo · 29/04/2008 12:21

As long as the sand looks clean, I let my children go barefoot. Or rather it would be impossible keeping jelly shoes on them- and I don't blmae them, they are ridiculously uncomfortable and often leave red marks.

Far healthier to walk in barefeet on sand. Very good for the development of the foot.

Yes they could in theory stand on a weaver fish, but I've never ever seen one and don't know anyone who has ever stood on one, so I figure the chances of that happening are pretty low.

Rosa · 29/04/2008 13:32

IN Spain in the sand dd barefoot- When paddling the beach shoes with a toggle. In the Uk ( Cornwall ) beach shoes most of the time - in and out of rock pools, paddling etc. Have seen weaver fish stings and I would like to avoid them...I wear some kind of shoes as well esp in shallow water.

McDreamy · 29/04/2008 13:34

I don't here in Cyprus as we have weaver fish - they hurt big time!!!!! I buy water shoes every year.

Ellbell · 29/04/2008 13:37

Weaver fish very common in West Cornwall, belgo. We got an annual lecture about them at school.

probablyaslytherin · 29/04/2008 22:24

Weevers here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weever

Though I have to say I have been in and out of the sea in bare feet for decades -in Britain and the Med- and have never met one.

Part of the fun of being at the beach is the feel of your bare feet in the sand/water. Rubber shoes/jellies feel horrible. The only time my children have worn rubber shoes have been on stony beaches.

SSSandy2 · 30/04/2008 07:08

That's interesting I had never heard of those fish before

SofiaAmes · 30/04/2008 07:23

I grew up going into the sea and ocean with bare feet all over the world. And my 2 children have gone with bare feet into the sea and ocean all over the world. And we live to tell the tale. I think the worst I've had is a sea urchin spike or two. Probably less painful than the blisters I've gotten from walking with hot and sweaty feet in jellies.

McDreamy · 02/05/2008 08:46

Maybe it depends where you are, very common here, DH has had to deal with alot of stings.

MrsMattie · 04/05/2008 10:45

yes, I've let him, but usually he wears his crocs.

Flip