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>>It is interesting to see how many kids go around >>barefoot, I never see any where I live. I wanted to >>ask if your kids also wear shorts all year? Our sone >>wears shoes but he has to stay in shorts year round. >>He is 16. > >Hi, Tamara! > >So far our children used to wear shorts in summer, >shoes in winter and bare feet with long pants in >spring and fall. >Meanwhile they're barefoot to the freezing point and >even a bit below, for limited times of outdoor >activity even in snow. >It seems like wearing long pants and legwarmers can >help with that: If only the feet are exposed and >everything else is kept warm from ankles up, it's >easier for the body to keep the toes warm from inside >since the bloodstream won't lose much of its warmth on >the way down. >On a sunny spring day with something like 12°C >outside in the morning they will go out in shorts and >a light jacket that they take off when it gets warmer. >So their "shorts limit" is higher than the "barefoot >limit" and they will still spend half the year in >shorts. They certainly wouldn't wear anything on their >feet during that period! >We have seen some children and adolescents around town >in shorts in near-freezing weather (wearing socks and >shoes though) and I read of a tradition on the British >isles (with maritime climate where temperatures don't >get extremely hot or cold) that children below a >certain age used to wear shorts or knee-long skirts >all year, with wool socks in winter, bare feet in >summer. >So in our family it's "feet first, knees second" when >looking at the order of what's bared when it warms up. >So you never got long pants for your son? How cold >does it get where you live?

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