I didn’t realize how important a good pair of shoes was until I got older. In grade school it was all about the colors, high school was the fad, and now….it’s all about comfort. Comfort not only feels good on the feet but the back, calves, and any other part of the anatomy from the waist down. Good shoes cost a little more, but they are worth it! I made the mistake of playing a tennis game in a cheap pair of shoes only once. I was so sore the next day I could hardly move.

This leads me to my next point; the importance of good children’s shoes. I didn’t really think a whole lot about what shoes my son wears as long as they are inexpensive; that wasn’t until a friend started talking to me about it. My son lives in sandals in the summer time. She commented to me one day how bad it is for kids to wear sandals, or any shoe for that matter, that don’t have good support. Children grow very fast. That is why it is important that your child wears good shoes with a lot of support. These are the times in their lives where their bones are developing. If a child wears shoes that have no arch support for the first ten years of their lives, it’s probably inevitable that the child will have flat feet. I don’t know that for a fact, but it does make sense. It is very difficult to buy good shoes because they are expensive and don’t last a child very long, believe me, I do understand. I just thought I’d pass that little bit of information along to my readers.