Stores and Baby Complaint

[Belle5]

Honestly, that is just pathetic. I think I would write a letter to WDW just to see what kind of a canned response you might get. Who knows, maybe they could shed some light as to why this was done to you.

 

[crisi]

I'm sort of wondering what the boundries are. Just theorectically, what makes this a bad rule? Is it the age of the child and would it be OK if it were a six year old asleep in the stroller? Is it a mobility thing? (not likely, at 19 months most kids walk.) Is it the stroller, in which case is it ok if my 75 year old grandmother in a wheelchair goes barefoot? Is it the sleeping, in which case is it ok if I leave my husband barefoot on a bench outside the shop napping? Is it some combination?

This isn't a flame, I'm just wondering where the line is crossed. For me, I think its mobility - once you walk, you need to wear shoes in most public places, so enforcement of this seems reasonable to me.

 

[KimWDW]

That is so odd.

I never even bought shoes for my son until he was old enough to walk.

That's crazy. You'd think they would make a common sense exception for a sleeping child.

 

[Belle5]

I'm sort of wondering what the boundries are. Just theorectically, what makes this a bad rule? Is it the age of the child and would it be OK if it were a six year old asleep in the stroller? Is it a mobility thing? (not likely, at 19 months most kids walk.) Is it the stroller, in which case is it ok if my 75 year old grandmother in a wheelchair goes barefoot? Is it the sleeping, in which case is it ok if I leave my husband barefoot on a bench outside the shop napping? Is it some combination?

This isn't a flame, I'm just wondering where the line is crossed. For me, I think its mobility - once you walk, you need to wear shoes in most public places, so enforcement of this seems reasonable to me.

I understand what you are saying, Crisi, but a 19 month old is certainly within the realm of age not to be walking. How does the CM even know that a 19 month old is not just a large 12 month old who is not walking? It's all very subjective... I think we make lots of exceptions for babies in our society. At most WDW restaurants you can wheel a sleeping baby up to your table so as not to wake him, for example. Some of my babies had such rolls of fat on their feet I couldn't even find shoes for them.

 

[the kabuki]

I'm sort of wondering what the boundries are. Just theorectically, what makes this a bad rule? Is it the age of the child and would it be OK if it were a six year old asleep in the stroller? Is it a mobility thing? (not likely, at 19 months most kids walk.) Is it the stroller, in which case is it ok if my 75 year old grandmother in a wheelchair goes barefoot? Is it the sleeping, in which case is it ok if I leave my husband barefoot on a bench outside the shop napping? Is it some combination?

This isn't a flame, I'm just wondering where the line is crossed. For me, I think its mobility - once you walk, you need to wear shoes in most public places, so enforcement of this seems reasonable to me.

I don't think that this is a matter of enforcing the rules and under what circumstances specifically that they should be applied, but falls more under the realm of Common Sense. The child was sleeping. Surely in this case it wouldn't be that big of a deal to let him enter without shoes. I do understand what you're trying to say though, but still think that in this instance, common sense should've prevailed .

 

[Karalynn]

We were on vacation at Ocean City one yr, and we were told my dd who was an infant at the time she could not go on the carousel with me (on the bench of course) because she wasn't wearing shoes. Safety issues they said. Ok, I can understand that, but it was ok if she had socks on. ????? How are socks going to protect her feet any different than if they were bare? I was pretty mad at the time, but now its kindof comical how obsessive some people are about their rules. But, hey, its not my job at stake so who am I to argue!

 

[Ali]

Up until he was 3 my DS wouldn't wear shoes, he has Sensory issues and we just didn't push it. He wore socks and the soft unstructured shoes that were stretchy with a bit of a soled bottom (like robeez, etc). Well, the Disney CMs had a big problem with those "shoes" and wouldn't let him walk anywhere near the characters explaiing his feet would get hurt if they were stepped on in those "shoes". Well, if Goofy stepped on my Ds's feet in any shoes it would hurt! So we had to carry him around any characters.

And I do know they are very strict about wearing shoes at the smal fountain at dinoland digsite - constantly hearing people being told to put on your shoes. reminds me to have slip ons for next trip.

Alicia

 

[Cllong75]

I'm sort of wondering what the boundries are. Just theorectically, what makes this a bad rule? Is it the age of the child and would it be OK if it were a six year old asleep in the stroller? Is it a mobility thing? (not likely, at 19 months most kids walk.) Is it the stroller, in which case is it ok if my 75 year old grandmother in a wheelchair goes barefoot? Is it the sleeping, in which case is it ok if I leave my husband barefoot on a bench outside the shop napping? Is it some combination?

This isn't a flame, I'm just wondering where the line is crossed. For me, I think its mobility - once you walk, you need to wear shoes in most public places, so enforcement of this seems reasonable to me.

I think some of these are a little far fetched, but still, DS has been walking since he was 7 1/2 mos old, so does that mean since it's possible any 7 or 8 month old should have too wear shoes? I'm not trying to be rude, I don't know maybe because I consider myself a good parent and can't fathom the things that other parents may do or let there children do that give Disney the reason to make these rules.