MrsKen33
We all do as a family. Always take slippers when visiting DD or DS. But I wouldn’t ask a visitor to do so. That would be rude and they might be embarrassed..
Us too. I automatically taught all the children to take their shoes off when they came indoors, and they all wore slippers. Even now in their 30s and 40s, they still automatically do, and they've taught their children the same way. I wouldn't ask anyone to remove their shoes though, even my ex-mother-in-law, who once traipsed through a pile of dog muck on the pavement, didn't even wipe her feet and just spread it the full length of our hall and lounge! My (2nd) husband wasn't brought up to remove his shoes, and I don't feel I can or should insist he does - it's his house too, after all! However, he does have a nasty habit sometimes, when he takes them off, of putting them on the soft furnishings, which maddens me, he just doesn't see the logic of keeping them on the floor. I've even thrown them out of the window when I've found them on the bed, but nothing ever changes. I do ensure we never have white bed linen!!! (and wash everything regularly, of course!!) But it's instilled in him as a child, so he's not going to change now!! Another of his learnt behaviours is using the tea-towel to wipe down mucky kitchen surfaces!! Words fail me! And understanding the idiocy of it seems to fail him. I'm just very vigilant, shall we say, both at home and at his mums!!!!!