where and when do you let your children go without shoes

[butter16]

An earlier post got me wonder where and when do you let your children go without shoes.

My daughter is six and I spend a fortune on shoes for her, yet she takes every opportunity to take them off. She never wears her shoes around the house and garden or to go to her friends a few doors away and to the local shops. When we go to the park she will be running round in her socks in no time. Soon she grown out of the shoes she has and we are off shoe shopping again. We will stop off at McDonalds which has a little play area and she'll be running round the restaurant without them in minutes

The concept of just letting her go barefoot is appealing

I was meant to add to this post earlier but before I could register my newish computer gave up and I just got it back, well this morning. Then I was not receiving the confirmation mail for some reason

DS is sometime barefoot at home and in our garden. He wears shoes everywhere else. He's never been one to take his shoes off....I'm glad as personally I would be worried about injury. Have a friend whos DC are barefoot often outside like in parks and I just don't understand why you would want to put your child in danger but each to their own.

DD is always barefoot at home, as I am.

Occasionally she takes her shoes off at the park (for the sandpit) and she sometimes runs around barefoot in my parents' garden.

Dose your DD still go barefoot and did yu let your DD go bearfoot.