Forgot to tell y'all...

When we took my stepson on vacation with us, he could barely get his shoes on. His mother had sent him with one pair of shoes and they were too small for him. We were out in the boonies when we realized this (after it took him about ten minutes to try to squeeze his feet into them when it was time for us to go outside) and we were stuck with what this small (but relaxing) rural town had to offer. So it was either Croc-like shoes or flip flops. Well, there were work boots too but who wants to wear those on a boat? Seeing how he hates Crocs, and thinks of them as women shoes, he got the flip flops. He wore them the entire time we were on vacation but put his tight shoes back on right when we got to the parking lot we were doing the exchange at before his mother got there (why I wonder?).

Is it that difficult to keep a kid in shoes that fit? She only has two children to manage; I have four and mange to keep their toes from being squashed just fine.