The horror of shoe shopping with children

Taking children shopping is something that many parents dread, especially when it is for children’s shoes or school shoes.

At first glance it might not seem so bad; all you have to do is go into the shop, find something that your child likes, get them to try the shoes on, pay and leave.

If only!
Children are notoriously impatient when it comes to shopping. You only have to go into a shopping centre on a busy weekend afternoon to listen to the soundtrack of wailing and screaming from bored children who are being told off for misbehaving because they are bored and so on.

The alternative to having a bored, misbehaving child in a shop isn’t that much of an improvement. Having a child who is interested and who does have an opinion brings its own set of problems: you want your child to choose a sensible pair of school shoes, and the school insists that your child wears a sensible pair of shoes to school, but your child wants pink sequin-encrusted Barbie princess ballet slippers.

You have a problem.
There are ways of making shopping for children’s shoes easier for yourself and for your child. For starters, choose a shoe shop that specialises in children’s shoes. Not only will there be other frustrated parents around who will sympathise with you and be less likely to get annoyed at your screaming child, but the staff will be trained in dealing with the younger customer, and there will be less unsuitable footwear for them to be tempted with.

Don’t draw out the experience. Go into the shop with a clear idea of what you are buying and leave when it is done. Don’t try to kill two birds with one stone and choose this shopping trip to begin the Christmas shopping.

It might seem like a good idea to keep your child quiet with some chocolate or sweets but the sugar will encourage bad behaviour and they are likely to get sticky marks on everything.

Try to deal with the shopping trip as quickly, calmly and efficiently as possible, and then reward both you and your child afterwards. Anyone for the pub?

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