Sam has a shoe fettish. No, he doesn't like womens shoes as much, or lots of pairs of shoes. He likes one style of shoe, in the same blue color. period. The last couple of times that we've gotten him shoes we've just bought the same pair of shoes a size bigger, but we knew that when he was big enough they wouldn't carry that style in his size. It happened.
We went to the store to buy him some new shoes... we told him that was what we were doing, and guess what. He threw a big ol tantrum as soon as his shoes were taken off. "No! Blue shoes on!" So Jer turned it into a game. We pulled out 10 different pairs of shoes and had him try them all on one at a time... by the time he'd fought him into trying on 4 of them he'd gotten the hang of it and wanted to keep trying on different ones... but then it took him a long time to get him to decide which ones he would be willing to wear without fighting him. Finally did. Now he doesn't want to wear his old shoes anymore. I guess we got him to expand his horizons.
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Rhees Family
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Hurray - score one for parents. Why do we have to resort to odd practices to get around our kid's fetishes? I thought it was pretty funny myself. Hurray for new shoes too.
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