Choosing the Footwear of a Child Who Starts Walking

Choose the footwear of a child who starts walking. Shoes that fit your child's first steps. To choose the shoes for a child who begins to walk there are 4 fundamental aspects:

Material: The most used in the manufacture of footwear are fabric, leather and plastic. The best to start walking is the fabric. The leather one may be the worst one for your baby because the leather has the disadvantage of bring of aggressive chemical substances which will harm your baby. In addition the fabric is more flexible.

Sole : It is the essential part of any shoe . There are boots, shoes, cheap baby sneakers, sandals or flip-flops. They all vary in what we use to hold the sole at the foot. But they all have soles. The function of footwear is to protect the foot when we support it on the ground. The sole should therefore be protective, without limiting the natural movement of the foot. That is, the sole of a shoe for children should be flexible and somewhat thick (at least half gum cm thick).

Height : It is very often recommended that young children wear boots that protect the ankle, so that it does not twist and avoid flat feet. The reality is that the arch of the foot does not form until about 3 years. Until that age all children have flat feet. And that does not change by wearing one kind of shoe or another. The flat foot obeys a genetic scheme that one has or does not have. With and without orthopedic treatment, the one with a flat foot will have it. Limiting the mobility of a joint is meaningless. By the same reasoning that boots are intended, it could be argued that these boots reached the hip to protect the knee, preventing their movement. But it is that the joints are to move and it is these free movements that regulate and model the ligaments that protect the joint. Footwear should limit as little as possible the normal mobility of the foot. Therefore shoe or shoe that free the ankle. 

Design : One of the most obvious failures of quality in the design of children's shoes . There are children's shoes with bow in the template. As I said, children have no bow until about 3 years. But there are designers who simply reduce the size of a design for adult footwear . There is no denying that it is very close, but a child is not a small adult. It is the same with the jerseys that some make for children using the same pattern as an adult, but in small. The designer has not fallen in that the neck is thought to pass through the head of an adult, but that of a child is much larger in relation to the size of the body.

In short, the ideal shoe to start walking is:Fabric shoe, flexible sole at least half an inch thick, free the ankle and do not mark the template on the bow.