i just read this today on cnn - thought it might be of interest since there are so many of us here who happen to like crocs and have kids that might be wearing them too!

cnn article

Thanks for sharing the article, Tami! I just passed on to my sister - my niece won't leave the house in anything but her Crocs... although last week it rained and now she is on a rain boots everywhere even when it isn't raining kick. She's so cute.

Yet another reason to put some [damn] shoes on.

In our area (Northeast FL) it's like a stereotype -- the shoeless Southerner. I've seen people wearing flip-flops to non-beach weddings.

Who would have thought something so un-threatening would pose a danger?

On a side note - I swear my two boys could hurt themselves on a speck of dust sometimes.

Will the list of potential dangers to my children ever stop growing? I'm going to be in the looney bin by the time they're out of the house.

I had my foot caught in an escalator at about 3 years old. Thankfully, patent leather mary janes were the in thing for little girls back then, a lot sturdier than those silly crocs--I was unhurt, but extremely upset about the scrapes on my shoes.

Needless to say, I'm extremely careful about where my feet are placed on an escalator step, and I often let two or three steps go by before I step on.....just a little residual paranoia.

I don't get it with Crocs...they just seem soooo ugly to me. I'm sure they're comfy and all but here in Boulder...where they originally came from...everybody wears them and I just can't stand them! Give me leather or give me death! Wow, sounds like a dominatrix ad or something. Sorry, rant over.

haha. very eddie izzard!

But I guess a little latex now and then wouldn't be a bad thing either...hehe...ok ok tmi I know.

cake or death!

I don't think it's the crocs necessarily, kids get their feet stuck in the escalator wearing flip flops all the time and yet parents still let them wear them. In fact, I myself got my toe stuck in the escalator when I was 3 or 4 because of flip flops. I think it's the shuffling kids do when they walk, not their shoes.

I know..ban escalators! Make em walk! Wait, then they'd outlaw floors because they were too slippery. Is it just me or are we becoming a nation of huge wimps?! When I was young, we used to get hurt all the time, not once did my parents go out and complain to the lumber yards to stop making boards that we used to make bike jumps. Or to the road pavers to make softer blacktop when we hit our heads. IF you fell out of a tree and broke your arm you learned not to fall out of trees, we didn't blame the tree and cut it down...

Not sure why I'm arguing these things at this point in this forum...think I just need to leave work here...it makes me combative!

Give me cake!!!!

*breaks out the whip* You are being a naughty boy. You want to be punished, don't you?