In this very material world that we find ourselves living in there is pressure put upon children more and more to rise to and maintain the appearance of a socio-economic level of existence via the fashions that they wear. Fortunately in this modern day society our children are gauged by other children solely upon the clothes they are wearing, the hats that they're wearing, and the shoes upon their feet. Some parents find that they have their hands full and tried to deal with their children situation.
Some parents have opted to transfer their children to schools that have a uniform dress code. In so doing parents can frequently avoid many thousands of dollars in clothing cost that they would have spent on their children in order for them to the properly attired for their school peers. Many parents believe that this is the way that schools should be set up because it takes the focus off of clothing and places the focus of children upon academics.
Schools that have a uniform dress code traditionally do not allow the wearing of hats in the school facility proper. Usually caps are allowed to be worn outside in athletic areas and in outdoor green spaces where students normally take their breaks and lunch. Even in this high tech modern age, it is still considered inappropriate and rude behavior to wear a hat indoors.
In an effort to save on the cost of clothing for their children many people have found innovative ways to save a couple of bucks while still maintaining their child's wardrobe in a good manner. Some people find discount shopping stores to be an ideal place to pick a shirts skirts shoes pants for their school age child. With a little diligence and consistency one can easily find good quality shirts, skirts, and pants for their child and the foreign products.
When it comes to having a child that participates in the school athletics department, the cost of just footwear can be unbelievably expensive. When you consider that many school aged children are growing at a rate so quickly that some may even require a new set of shoes every three months depending on what part of the growth spurt they are currently in. Parents are putting their heads together and coming up with more innovative ways to keep their children in a proper set of footwear while also keeping their budget on track.
One of these ways is to provide their children with a very inexpensive pair of shoes when they are starting out in a particular athletic program. As they progress then parents will spend a little more money on better shoes. This protects the parent economically from children that thought they want to be the next Michael Jordan but it turns out they would rather be the next David Beckham.
Some parents even go as far as to borrow older shoes from someone who's children are starting out in a Jr. athletic programs. This seems to be the intelligent way to go because it allows the parent and child time to determine whether or not the child is interested in a long-term commitment of time and money in a particular athletic pursuit. More and more children are saying that they prefer this as well because it takes some of the pressure off of them to be a superstar athlete in the very beginning because their parents spent $150 on their shoes.
As the child begins to improve in their perspective sport and gains more and more confidence and achieves more and more, then the parents are more inclined to go out and spend more money for a shoe that will assist their child in performing better in the sport that they're growing to love. This makes practical economic sense for the average American family that is carefully budgeting their money to try to make ends meet all still maintaining a reasonable quality of life for the children and the rest of the family.
This practice of starting out children in new athletic pursuits with used shoes also sends a message to the child and encourages them that their success is not so strongly vested in a pair of brand new $150 shoes, but rather their success is totally vested in their own focus, drive, and determination.
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Jermain Grenville is a fashion writer and urban culture expert with over a decade of experience in the urban fashion world. Find out more at era caps or base ball caps
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