Is it okay for children to be barefoot?

When children are very young, they always like to run barefoot because they feel that barefoot does not feel restrained, and their feet feel cool and comfortable when they step on the ground. However, parents will always chase after their children and ask them to put on shoes. Most parents worry that their children may catch a cold, have diarrhea, and their feet may get dirty if they run barefoot on the ground. So is it okay for children to run barefoot?

Compared with adults, babies are more prone to sweating, especially the soles of their feet, where the baby's sweat glands are most concentrated, so wearing socks is very uncomfortable.

Babies are afraid of heat to begin with, and they get even hotter after wearing socks. Many babies can’t wear socks. After adults help them put them on, they pull them off after a while.

Benefits of going barefoot:

1. It can speed up the blood circulation in the soles of the feet and promote metabolism

2. Promote foot development

3. Enhance resistance and cold tolerance

4. Helps to develop beautiful foot shape, reduce inward-turned feet, outward-turned feet, X-shaped legs, and O-shaped legs

5. Better balance

Things to note when going barefoot in summer:

The floor should be clean and free of water stains and foreign objects to prevent the baby from stepping on it and getting injured.

Also, don't walk barefoot on the floor for a long time, especially on tiles. People with poor physical condition should not walk barefoot.

Going barefoot can improve your physical fitness

Yes, letting children go barefoot is not only less likely to get sick, but it is also beneficial to the blood circulation of the feet, improves resistance and cold tolerance, and prevents colds or diseases such as diarrhea caused by cold.

In kindergartens abroad, it is common to see groups of babies, led by teachers, jogging barefoot around the playground or along the corridors in an organized manner. This is the famous "barefoot education."

Practice has shown that after a period of barefoot training, most babies’ physical fitness has improved, their height and weight have increased, and even colds are less common.

Bare feet stimulate the development of tactile senses

Sensory integration disorder is not a disease, but if it is not intervened in childhood, it cannot be changed when one grows up. 0-3 years old is the formation period of sensory integration, 3-6 years old is the best correction period, 6-13 years old is the compensatory period (maybe several times or even dozens of times the effort is spent in this stage, but the correction effect may still not be good), and sensory integration is basically formed at the age of 13 and difficult to correct.

This is why some children are very smart when they are young, but become average when they grow up.

Letting your baby walk barefoot is a good way to train his sense of touch.

This season, you can also let your baby play barefoot outdoors and feel the sand, grass, and water.

By touching objects of different textures, temperatures, softness and hardness, babies can stimulate the rich tactile nerves in their feet, promote sensory and brain development, enhance memory, and improve body coordination.