We're All Crazy Mennonites

[siren_of_psych]

We went to Copper Falls State Park today (pictures coming soon.) While in the park, I noticed some very inbred-looking boys running around the main parking lot (I'm sorry, but they were totally inbred-looking and you all would have thought the same.) They seemed to be dressed unusually, also, but mostly, I just noticed how they looked like their

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Barefoot kids

[thryn]

If you go barefoot enough, your feet won't be cut by sharo rocks and whatnot unless they're REALLLLLLLLY sharp, and even those might not go deep enough to draw blood or anythign if your feet are rough enough.

Trust me, I was barefoot as often as possible as a kid -- my feet were very different back then.

Re: Barefoot kids

[siren_of_psych]

I doubt a ten-month old, who has been walking for a sum-total of one month, has developed callouses thick enough to protect her feet from sharp rocks. And that's about how old the youngest one was. The next-oldest was barely nine months older than this one, and with our short, short summers, it's not like they have a whole lot of time to be barefoot to begin with.

Our earliest walker began walking at nine months almost to the day, which is about as early as they come (ducks as suddenly as competitive parents everywhere come forth claiming their kids "walked" at six months, etc, not realizing cruising isn't actually considered walking. So, if this baby started walking then, she'd only been walking for a month. Have you ever seen/felt/thought about a ten-month-old's little feet? They're tender.

Oh, well, perhaps they had only been walking a couple feet and I caught them at a bad time.....

Nevermind...... You're walking 1.7mi through the forest, put shoes on your damned, inbred children!

Re: Barefoot kids

[thryn]

Eh, this is what I get for skim-reading, to some extent ... i basically just caught "barefoot kids/forest," not how young they were. And not that only a couple out of all the kids didn't have some sort of foot covering.

Still, I'm also convinced that I'm a better person now because I ate dirt, walked around barefoot, played in the mud, and did other potentially dangerous/unhealthy things as a kid. *shrug* I guess not being a mom keeps me from developing that "eek, that could hurt/kill you" instinct. ;)

But hey, if they *do* cut their feet on pointy rocks, not get treated from the subsequent infection and die, that'll be two less cousin-marrying folks to create more inbred babies in 16-18 years, right?

Re: Barefoot kids

[siren_of_psych]

Mwah-ha! My dad's (and in this case I'll stress step-dad brother married his first cousin. This was in CA where such a practice is (or at least was) a-okay. Go, California!

Re: Barefoot kids

[siren_of_psych]

Okay, I just noticed something, a good parent isn't going to want a rocking going in at all!! Who CARES whether or not it draws BLOOD!? This was an infant and a toddler. I said "toddlers" only because both were toddling, but one was, my best guess would be (and I'm a pretty educated guesser) ten months old. These were not teenagers, capable of making their own decisions about whether or not they wanted rock shards protruding from their extremities.

Re: Barefoot kids

[scifispice80]

I was the same way. I grew up on a farm (in Tennessee, no less) and I don't think I hardly ever had shoes on in the summertime, just because it's so nice outside. That was until I found that dead pincer beetle with pincers the size of my big toe in the front yard.... Yeah, I starte wearing shoes after that, lol