Why Parents Keep Posting For Sale Baby Shoes Never Worn Online
I'm currently sitting on the floor of Leoβs closet. Itβs Tuesday, somewhere around 11 AM, and I'm wearing a faded college t-shirt that smells vaguely of sour milk and desperation. I've an iced coffee next to me that was hot...
The brutal truth about buying baby boy shoes for early walkers
My mother-in-law showed up on a Tuesday with stiff leather high-tops because she said my son's ankles were going to collapse without support. An hour later, a mom influencer on my feed claimed that putting anything other than raw, unbleached...
Why I Took Kitchen Scissors to My Infant's First Pair of Sneakers
I was sweating through my shirt in a Target parking lot in late October, wrestling with a foot that looked exactly like a Hawaiian sweet roll. My oldest son was eight months old, and I was determined to get him...
A clueless dad's guide to buying Nike baby shoes and apparel
We're at Washington Park in Portland, and the temperature is exactly 62.4 degrees. The sky has that flat, gray, overcast quality that makes for decent smartphone photos, which is great, because I've dressed my 11-month-old son like a backup dancer...
Why the Nike Swoosh 1 Changed How I Think About Baby Shoes
It was a random Tuesday, maybe 9 AM, and I was wearing leggings that definitely hadnβt been washed since Sunday. I was hovering by the microwave, nursing my third cup of aggressively mediocre dark roast, when my mother-in-law dropped a...
Baby Shoes Never Worn: Why Barefoot Is Always The Smart Move
I'm currently sitting cross-legged on the floor of our hallway in Portland, staring at a plastic storage bin filled to the brim with tiny, immaculate, aggressively rigid footwear. Itβs raining outside, the house is hovering at exactly 68.4 degrees because...
The Truth About Baby Feet: Why Those Tiny Shoes Are a Scam
My mother-in-law held up a pair of hot pink, patent leather, miniature high heels at my baby shower like she had just extracted a rare diamond from a mine. I smiled, nodded, and immediately mentally categorized them as biohazard waste....
The Real Story Behind Those Unworn Infant Shoes on Resale Apps
I'm currently staring at six pairs of stiff, leather infant oxfords sitting in my donation pile. Hemingway supposedly wrote a famous six-word tragedy about unworn baby shoes, but honestly, any mom on a local buy-nothing group will tell you it's...
The Real Deal on Finding Walking Shoes for Babies
I was standing in the middle of the Target shoe aisle with my oldestβwho's now four and still an absolute terror, bless his heartβwhen I realized I had three completely different voices echoing in my head about what to put...