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gbcc 06:59 AM 10-17-2014
With rain and snow season coming I thought I would do a please remove your shoes sign . I find it absurd I need to remind adults it's rude to walk into someone house with your shoes on but I do lol! Anyone have a sign I can copy to hang up?
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AmyKidsCo 07:11 AM 10-17-2014
No, but we wear shoes in the house so it never occurs to me to take them off in other people's houses. I read something somewhere about wearing shoes in case you need to evacuate in a hurry, like if there's a fire.
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gbcc 07:23 AM 10-17-2014
I'm not worried about kids bc they get carried in. I'm worried about the parents that stand on my wood floor saying goodbye to ten minutes and making a mess. The floor is starting to get water damage now I have an enclosed porch they can stay in to do goodbyes if they want to leave their shoes on.
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AmyKidsCo 07:27 AM 10-17-2014
If you Google "please remove shoes sign" there's lots of signs that pop up. Some are really cute!

I personally would be OK making our home shoes-off buy my DH would never take his shoes off. I can't even get him to WIPE them off before tramping through.
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daycare 07:49 AM 10-17-2014
look on pinterest..

mine says something like

because small fingers crawl on our floor
you must remove your shoes at the door!!

I printed it on cool paper, laminated it and DONE!!!
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Crazy8 08:41 AM 10-17-2014
Maybe get a small area rug for the spot where parents stand??? We are a shoes on household and I wouldn't want to have to remove mine just to walk 2 feet in the door to drop my kid off at daycare. If that's your rule then obviously they should follow it but I really wouldn't think I was being rude by walking in with shoes on if I wasn't told not to.
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daycare 08:45 AM 10-17-2014
Originally Posted by Crazy8:
Maybe get a small area rug for the spot where parents stand??? We are a shoes on household and I wouldn't want to have to remove mine just to walk 2 feet in the door to drop my kid off at daycare. If that's your rule then obviously they should follow it but I really wouldn't think I was being rude by walking in with shoes on if I wasn't told not to.
we have this too.....you cant come past it with shoes on.

I did this thing for my parents to understand why.

I have Daily 14 kids, 4 staff (including me) 2 teenagers and 12 parents that walk in my home each day.

so I have 64 feet that make contact with my floor each day
Thats 320 feet a week
1280 feet a month..................

They understood after that
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Unregistered 08:55 AM 10-17-2014
When I first went "shoes-free" I bought a plain inexpensive door mat, traced two adult and two child sized shoes on it and painted with acrylic to look like athletic shoes. Painted: Take your shoes off here...
Made another set of each size feet from paper and drew on "sock lines" and a sign that said: ...so our feet stay warm and dry in here!
The doormat went right outside the door, on the porch. The sock feet and words went directly inside the door on a tile entryway, laminated down with contac paper.
Then I let the kids play on it, trying out foot sizes so that they would want their parents to do it too.
It only stayed nice for one fall to spring, but by then everyone was in the habit.
Ever since, I have only had a small sign on the door that says: Remove shoes here please.
And everyone does!
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mom2many 09:13 AM 10-17-2014
When we had carpet, I had a cute wooden sign that hung by my door. Parents and my food program lady never took issue with removing their shoes.

However, my LPA outright refused to & I was beside myself. She was on a power trip & was beyond horrible. I insisted on a meeting with the regional mgr & director to express my dismay at her disrespect in my home. They told her she must wear shoe covers & she abided by that, but was clearly annoyed.
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Annalee 09:22 AM 10-17-2014
Originally Posted by AmyKidsCo:
No, but we wear shoes in the house so it never occurs to me to take them off in other people's houses. I read something somewhere about wearing shoes in case you need to evacuate in a hurry, like if there's a fire.
I used to make kids go shoeless, but I have broken my pinky toe on my right foot twice in the last 4 years yep, the last time being this past spring and it took surgery for 2 pins to fix it....it was literally stuck out to the sideso now I wear shoes all the time cause I seem to hit the toe on everything... kinda hard to enforce the rule now but I do NOT want to pay the bone & joint clinic any more money. I told my dr to just cut it off and he said he would have to teach me how to walk then
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Josiegirl 10:04 AM 10-17-2014
When I first read your title first thought was 'what is that, like a kick me sign?'

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Annalee 10:09 AM 10-17-2014
Originally Posted by Josiegirl:
When I first read your title first thought was 'what is that, like a kick me sign?'
I would like some "here's your sign"s like the Bill Engvall song so I could hand them to parents when they ask silly questions...
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EntropyControlSpecialist 11:13 AM 10-17-2014
Mine reads, "We like to play on the floor, please leave your shoes by the door!"
I have a shoe rack for my DCK's shoes to go on and they all go take their shoes off and come on in. I tell the parents it is for GERM reasons and it keeps the kids healthier since they all crawl around on the floor. No one argues it! I have 11 children total here.
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Unregistered 06:58 AM 10-22-2014
I have a sign on both side of the glass front door
" Please take shoes off ..children lie on these floors"
no one seems to be able to read
so my daughter put a halloween bloody foot print on it from last year
and well they take thier shoes off ....
fo figure
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Hazel 07:14 AM 10-22-2014
I have a no shoes policy for the kids but the way my playroom is set up, it's the first room in the house by the front door, I have the playroom rug over more to the side of the room and a door mat and runner for the parents coming in... This way they don't have to walk on the playroom rug. I wear sneakers in my house when I'm working BUT they are for inside only. I never wear them outside except to maybe run something out to a parent that forgot something. I also have area rugs that I clean 2 times a year and replace (usually) every 2 years. They really aren't bad from shoes, they get stinky from diapers, accidents, kids coming in with a bottle or cup and drip milk, spit up, throw up... You know the drill. Cleaning only goes so far. I pay about $100 for 9 x 12 bound area rug. Nothing fancy.
No shoes for kids is more about safety AND bc 2 years ago one of the boys had his on all day.. I went to tie his shoe at the end of the day and saw he had dog poop and grass clumped into the treads of his sneakers! That was it for me! Rug was thrown out that night and new one purchased (it was time to replace anyway thank goodness!).
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Luvnmykidz 10:10 AM 10-22-2014
I have a sign that says kick off your shoes and rock your socks. My kids think its cute and cant wait to show me there colorful printed socks. My parents probably don't notice the sign but my foyer has a few steps to come into the main room/playroom and its gated. No one enters the other side of the gate until they have removed their shoes and washed their hands.
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