shoes and toddlers help!

[Sabbey]

I never had any problems getting DS to wear shoes, although when he was in the car he would always take them off as he liked playing with the velcro. He always wore socks to keep his feet warm since he was a baby so he is use to them too. Although he did go through a time where pulling them off was lots of fun. He has only ever worn shoes outside, but I have never had any major drama. Now he knows to put shoes on to go out and takes them off when he comes inside (he's 18mths). Getting them use to it early I think is the key.

But that doesn't help you now. However, I bought him squeaky shoes for his first shoes. They are light weight and soft-ish. He was about 11 mths old when I got them for him.


The squeaky noise when he walks might be enough to encourage him to keep them on. The noise isn't overly annoying, well I didn't think so, but you can actually take the squeaky piece out and he can wear them without noise. I found it did encourage my DS to walk. He did scrunch his toes up whenever I put shoes on him but only for the first few times, and as soon as I'd put them on and he walked a few steps he un-scrunched his toes. He does it with every new pair of shoes I buy for him. Its a normal reaction in kids so I wouldn't worry about that.

Anyway, maybe something like this would help to keep shoes on him. Just a thought.