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From: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response, Shoes
Message-ID: <1316@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 15:19:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 15:19:23 1986
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Reply-To: jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere)
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In article <14900015@ada-uts.UUCP> cindy@ada-uts.UUCP writes:
>
>     I recently went to Stride Rite to buy shoes for my 10 mo. old.  She
>from stubbing his toes( toddlers don't watch their feet!).  Flat leather
>soles were recommended over sneakers for several reasons.  The flat soles
>offer more stability over curved rubber soles.  Rubber soles tend to be
>stiffer, not allowing the toes to curve.  Rubber soles tend to 'stick'
>on the floor causing the child to tumble. And sneakers tend to come in
>only a medium width, so they don't fit well.  Megan has a EE width so
>this was important to me.
>
 I also bought Stride Rite shoes for son when he was younger. But now
 I question if they really are as good as sneakers. The leather soles
 are very slippery, and even when I used sand paper to roughen them up
 he still fell down about 20 times more often then when he was
 barefoot. I have the opposite problem with my sons foot,at 2 and a half
 he wares a 10 A ,but I went to an otherpedic shoe store that advertised
 childrens shoes and found that they carried 2 or 3 national brands
 of sneakers in all widths. They really do seem to be more confortable.
                         Jean McSpadden
-- 
J. Kenneth Riviere   (JoKeR)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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