Where?
Just about everywhere:

• Home
  Includes front and back yards and the street where you live.

• Stores.
  Of all kinds including grocery stores and convenience stores. A few will occasionally gripe at you (particularly Malls) and they may even ask you to leave, but remember, you are not breaking any law and you are the customer. Don't worry about any "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" signs you may see. They are rarely enforced. See here for a full discussion on stores.

• Parks
  Excellent places for the kids to run around

• Playgrounds
  Ones with sand are better. Sadly, many are now being filled with bark or wood chips. Not so nice on the feet. If you ever get a chance to oppose such a decision, please do so.

• Museums and Libraries.
  Cool marble floors or soft carpet ... and the kids make much less noise.

• Visiting friends houses
  You wouldn't put your kids in formal attire to visit friends, would you? Just treat shoes as an optional fashion item. This will often start some related conversations, but not any that you won't be able to handle after reading this site.

• Restaurants
  First, understand that there are actually no health codes that specify footwear (or any specific manner of dress) for patrons of restaurants. For a complete explosion of this pervasive myth follow this link. Restaurants exist to provide us comfort and service. If we and our kids are more comfortable in bare feet ... so be it!!. In practice you will have very little trouble at fast-food restaurants and (surprisingly) upscale restaurants. There is hardly ever any problem at "ethnic" type restaurants (Chinese, Thai, Indian etc.) See here for a full discussion of this issue.

• School
  Pre-school and daycare should not be a problem. After that it will get more problematic. Talk to the principal and explain your views. One family alone is unlikely to achieve change in this area. Get leaflets to other parents. Tell them about this website. Tell them about the schools that do allow bare feet. It will be uphill work getting any relaxation of entrenched compulsory shoe policies. Oh well ... as an alternative ... there is always Homeschooling and the Democratic schools. In these cases, you will have no problem at all. See here for  full discussion of the school issue.

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