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>>Sounds like Rita is making great progress and learning >>the barefoot way of life. I found with my daughters >>that by going barefoot all the time they grew to >>instinctively know where to step and what to step on >>and what their feet can and cannot handle. > >Absolutely, Rita is an "everywhere-barefooter" now, by >her own choice, she's always refused footwear of any >kind and would like to go barefoot through winter if >she manages. > >>Hopefully when Rita starts kindergarten she will be >>able to remain barefoot. > >We have been there, she will start in september. Their >policy is to let children decide by themselves, which >is very much along our line of childraising: Enable >children as early as possible to take independent and >responsible decisions. To us that is more important >than learning and following rules. In that >kindergarten (close enough to reach on foot) they just >have the rule "no outdoor shoes" and in summer most >children are barefoot at least indoors. And they have >a real garden with grass, moss, flowers and shrubs, >much like our garden at home, so they don't have to >play in a desert of concrete and stone. There's even a >little swimming pool. She's very much looking forward >to that, a place of learning and socializing so we are >confident she won't have difficulties spending some >time away from us and making more friends there.

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