jkr@gitpyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere) (01/31/86)
I am a guest on this account, please do not send mail. 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 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!jkr "I'd rather be conservative than bigoted, but I'd rather be *dead* than conservative!" -Kate from _Kate_and_Allie_