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If finding a good pair of kids’ shoes can be stressful, trying to find a pair of toddler shoes can be an outright nightmare. If you are like most moms you want shoes that are functional, cute, sturdy and fit your child’s foot well with a maybe a little room to grow. It certainly can’t hurt if your kids love them as much as you do. The trouble is that getting a kid, much less a toddler to relax and give you time to look for the right shoes and endure trying on several different pairs of them can be more trouble than it’s worth. Unfortunately, the sizes of children’s feet vary by height, weight and individual growth cycles, making it nearly impossible to avoid this trial and error process.
While patience is a virtue, it’s certainly not one that most kids are willing or interested in taking on when they re bored or tired. If you are not chasing them around the kids shoes store, they are fidgeting in the chair as you are having them try their shoes on or sulking about going on the trip in the first place. Toddlers are only worse on the matter, their attention spans totally incapable of toddler shoes shopping. How often have you settled for the last pair or even the first pair of shoes your child tried on to avoid the scene mothers dread when doing any sort of clothes shopping? The relief of getting it over with almost always negated by the overwhelming disappointment you felt afterwards.
If you want to save yourself a lot of time when shopping for kids shoes or toddler shoes the best thing you can do is to measure your child’s foot in your home. In order to get the most accurate size do this at the end of the day when the foot is at its largest and be sure to measure both feet. Using the length and width of the larger foot should get you the optimum kids shoes size. A ruler can be used to measure the size, but be sure that the child’s heel is set exactly on the zero and their toes aren’t curled when you take the measurement which should be at the tip of the big toe. The most accurate measure may be by using a home version of the fitting device found in most kids shoes stores, either method should help you find the right toddler shoes as well. A shoe fits best when there is a thumb’s width of toe room, the top of the shoe is neither too loose or too tight at the ball of the foot, and you can fit you are the top knuckle of your pinky between the heel and the shoe back. Using the inch measure of the foot will help you avoid the size differences between brands even in toddler shoes which seem to vary the most. This can be especially helpful when shopping online (what better way to evade the scene in the store, right?).