Barefoot child at Wal-Mart

[pomtzu]

And the reason it blew up is very simple.

The safety hazard isn't that great. (Boys and girls, IV drug users don't tend to dispose of their needles AT ALL, never mind in the parking lot, if they ditch it they're trying to hide it so the cops can't find it. A paved parking lot hardly fits that description)

People were judging based on one observer's 30 second look at the child.

I let my children go barefoot, sometimes, heaven forbid, in public areas.

People, including you, have determined that it's bad parenting to let the little darlings go barefoot like that.

Hence you are judging, by extension, my parenting, and frankly, you have no basis to do so to me or the person referenced in the original post.

If you're without sin, go ahead, cast that mutha.

Truce? No, sorry, isn't happening. Insulting someone's parenting is about as personal as you can get.

Well - you still don't see my point at all, and obviously you don't care to. Again - it made reference to folks that make this a common practice, and not the once in a blue moon incidents. The original post only opened up the subject to discussion and people's views on the subject in general. If you take those blinders off, you might see this too, thru your hard-headed, know it all, argumentative, I'm right/you're wrong, head. Sorry I even suggested a truce, since I'm obviously the big bad enemy, and I know nothing.


ETA: I offer the proverbial olive branch, and I'm told by implication, to stick it where the sun don't shine. Nice!