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I am not a podiatrist but i hope that you will oversee whith that and advice me in an important matter. The foot health site is hardly the right forum since it is not about some personal foot problem but a professional matter.
I am a Swedish nursery teacher, working whith children from fifteen months untill they go to school at the age of six.
The matter is shoes. I argue for letting the children go barefoot inside and in the playgarden (when its warm enough, of course) and that it will hurt their feet to allways be forced to wear shoes. In Sweden, the nurseries have very diversing policies about it. But I, having worked in many nurseries, find that the majority does not allow the children to go barefoot outside and very many tries to have the children use shoes all the time even inside. In some places, the shoes should be extremely ill-fitting before the children are allowed to take them of.
The reason they give is the risk of catching a cold if going barefoot inside and the risk of hurting their feet on sharp things outside. In my opinion, glass in the play garden should be cleaned away and not used as a reason to force the children to wear shoes a year or more later! In Sweden, all children are vaccinated for tetanus so I do not really see the reason for fearing some stick or sharp stone if the children don’t fear it.
In Sweden, most nursery-gardens have sand, grass, shrubbery, asphalt and, if lucky, some little piece of natural ground.
What are you professionals saying about it? Am I totally wrong and it does not really matter as long as the shoes are well-fitting? What should good shoes be like?
Or am I right and should go on pushing for letting the children go barefoot? Then I need some professional references. Is there any medical research that I could learn from?
I will be most grateful for your time.
larare
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