Clarks Yo Toys shoes - grr

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Is anyone else facing horrendous pestering over these, courtesy of TV ads as well as peer pressure? I read today that some primary schools are telling parents to send the kids in without the hidden toys on health and safety grounds - good. I'm very angry that a firm with such a stranglehold over school footwear should have gone in for this - it's cynical to say the least. Trouble is DD (5) keeps on and on about them and won't look at any other school shoes at all. OK, it may be another Lally Kelly issue (i.e. we say NO until she forgets about it) but...

Shop elsewhere ? There are plenty of other school shoes out there.

That's the point - this is before you hit the shops and most shops have them in their school ranges - Mothercare, JLewis, etc.

I spotted dd limping to the car on Thursday last week.....

turns out she was feeling so hard done by, only having Start-Rits shoes, the poor mite, that she had put a wee dog from a Polly Pocket set in the toe of her shoe

After a fair amount of discussion she agreed to put it in the top of her sock, instead

Find an independent then - lots of stores don't stock them but have Startrite, Hush Puppies or European brands. There are other threads about them with various tactics to avoid them - tell the assistant to say they have none in the size for example.

I see yur point though it's crap that we should be put in a position where by we have to lie to our kids just to get them into a air of bloody shoes.
Lelly Kelly's annoy me too because i would buy and she would wear the shoes just because they are pretty, there's no need for the make up for my little girl.

My sister is very cross about these silly shoes. Niece is 11 but has tiny feet with babyish dolly stuck in sole and nephew who struggles to concentrate in school at the best of times has a very tempting little car. She would much prefer a fiver off the shoes and no pointless toy

pmsl Tissy!!

I had DD sobbing because bloody clarks never fit her feet so I have had to explain that it isn't just mummy being mean - they WON'T fit!

DD was in a bit of a huff when we bought her school shoes 2 weeks ago.

We went to an independent shoe shop that stocks various brands including Clarkes and Startrite. She, of course, wanted the Yo Toys ones but she has such skinny little feet that we just have to buy whatever fits her best and it wasn't a Yo Toys one.

Surely the toys must be a complete PITA at school -children playing with them in class instead of working, tears and " Miss I've lost my Yo Toy/ X has got my Yo Toy" etc

I have the same problem with the Lelli Kelli. DD2 would love a pair, but I'm blowed if I'm going to buy her a pair of shoes that gives away free make up. Highly inappropriate, and actually deters me from buying them.