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> >Of course, forcing them to be barefoot or allowing >them to risk frostbite in the name of competition >would be wrong, and I didn't mean to suggest that. >What I meant to ask was whether you plan to buy them >shoes even if their toes stay rosy pink on all but the >coldest of winter days. > >My own children had been going barefoot deeper and >deeper into winter, until one year the only days that >were too cold for them were those bitterly frigid ones >when nobody ventures outside unless they have to. And >even then, they would be fine for fifteen or twenty >minutes at a time. The following year, we decided to >let them live totally without footwear, as they had >both made it very clear it was something they wanted >to do. One of their christmas presents was getting to >donate their last pairs of shoes (which they had never >actually worn), and they couldn't have been happier >about it. > >As far as skiing goes, at that point my kids wouldn't >have wanted to do anything they couldn't do barefoot, >and probably would have been sad to pass over so much >fresh snow without feeling any of it underfoot.

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