OK, I'll get up on my soap box now and would like to start a "dads against useless clutter in the house" campaign. First one on my list is shoes for newborns. Is it possible that these fashion items are the most useless things in the world?

Just to clarify my point here - I'm taking about proper shoes (with laces and all), NOT socks or knitted shoes. So I'm proud to say we didn't buy a single pair of newborn shoes but we got given about 30 pairs (I'm not kidding). Naturally we tried them and I found some obvious problems ...

1. Can't get them on because our baby moves his legs a lot and trying to tie the laces is hard work
2. They fall off (even with laces tied)
3. They never have the right size and our baby outgrew most of them in a matter of weeks.

Oh and I nearly forgot ... NEWBORNS CAN'T WALK!

Honestly, what's the point? Obviously we need to keep babies feets warm - so socks (knitted / woollen) seem to do the trick just fine. Why bother with socks AND shoes? Because it's just SOOO cute???

Maybe it's me but a newborn baby with shoes just somehow doesn't look right. To me it's like trying to make them look like little adults ... with proper shoes. Not sure what it does to their feet either (i.e. wearing something relatively rigid at an age when all the bones are still very soft).

And finally what do you do with them after the relatively short period newborns can wear them? It's already difficult enough to keep the house clutter free with all the additional baby gear and.
I say - stop the madness. Don't buy them in the first place.

-Stef

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