My 18 year old follow trends from Jordan dunks NB Yezzy and some other brands I laugh at her when she ask for designer I don't even wear it but my 6 year old just grabs pink shoes and hello kitty and whatever characters shoes she likes and she loves them light up twinkle toes
Being a parent really makes you understand how much we impact the youth without even knowing it... Most children are like your 6 year old at some point, all they want is their favorite colors and something that lights up
Eventually they get older and start noticing what their parents, siblings, friends wear etc and at that point they begin caring about what's deemed "cool." Being a parent is dope but also scary because it's only so much we can do to mold them, that's why instilling certain values at a young age is critical. Shoes are material items and shouldn't be thought much more than that in the grand scheme of things..I won't be mad if my boys turn out to be sneakerheads but if they do I want it to be because they're genuinely into shoes and not because they're just trying to keep up with trends.
This that's why I don't buy my youngest Jordans/Nike at the retail price points unless I catch them on sale cause they are beaters within a week
I swear my lil man can turn a new shoe into a beater within a single day at school.
Some years I got lucky and got two pairs a year, my feet grew like a chia pet when I was a kid. Been size 11-12 since like 8th grade. Used to get discount joints at modells, started going to the mall for footlocker and **** by age 9
They were $99 on snkrrroom yesterday and sitting
lol nah Nike, but I’m not a fan of long socks.You got adidas socks on huh fam?!
JK
That's a helluva way to raise a future bully. Teach him some other kids's shoes are lamer than his because his "stepdad says so," so he ends up pointing them out on the playground or in the cafeteria. I caught that **** when I was a 10-11 yo kid when Jordans first started getting big in '88-'89 and I was wearing whatever we got at Marshalls for 50 bucks that I liked. One year, musta been like 89 or 90 the biggest bully in school when I was in 6th grade showed up wearing Air Pressures which were, no lie, $190 at the time. He then picked on every kid who had shoes that weren't top-level Nikes for like 2 mos. Betcha his parents were just like your co-workersI was talking to a coworker a couple of days ago about sneakers. She wears a lot of AJ1's and knows a little bit about shoes, but it seems to be her fiancee who is the real sneaker fan. She was telling me her ex husband bought her son some True Flight type of Jordans over the weekend and he was all happy to show his future step-dad. Apparently the step-dad smiled in the kid's face, but then told my coworker "we can't have him walking around in those. It's embarrassing." It sounds like he's so embarrassed, they're gonna send the shoes back to kid's dad's place and be like "just wear those when your with dad, " like it reflects poorly on him that his stepson is wearing takedown J's. This is a whole other level of foolishness.
Yea I feel you. I wear long socks with any shoe but if it’s too hot out ankle socks are my go to.
Basically what happened to me. It was 1 pair a year uniess I grew out of them. Lots of Shoe Carnival specials in that time period. When I got to high school and got a job, that's when I started getting a couple of pairs a year because I was buying them with my own money. Even then, my mom still hated it.
The mother is at fault too, for letting the foolishness to occur in the first place. Putting his emotions over the kid smh, cmon now!!That's a helluva way to raise a future bully. Teach him some other kids's shoes are lamer than his because his "stepdad says so," so he ends up pointing them out on the playground or in the cafeteria. I caught that **** when I was a 10-11 yo kid when Jordans first started getting big in '88-'89 and I was wearing whatever we got at Marshalls for 50 bucks that I liked. One year, musta been like 89 or 90 the biggest bully in school when I was in 6th grade showed up wearing Air Pressures which were, no lie, $190 at the time. He then picked on every kid who had shoes that weren't top-level Nikes for like 2 mos. Betcha his parents were just like your co-workers
That's a helluva way to raise a future bully. Teach him some other kids's shoes are lamer than his because his "stepdad says so," so he ends up pointing them out on the playground or in the cafeteria. I caught that **** when I was a 10-11 yo kid when Jordans first started getting big in '88-'89 and I was wearing whatever we got at Marshalls for 50 bucks that I liked. One year, musta been like 89 or 90 the biggest bully in school when I was in 6th grade showed up wearing Air Pressures which were, no lie, $190 at the time. He then picked on every kid who had shoes that weren't top-level Nikes for like 2 mos. Betcha his parents were just like your co-workers
