Buying new baby shoes are the most serious concern of the parents. If they fail to buy the right baby shoes, they might end up having serious consequences. To avoid such situations, there are a number of handy tips to get the perfect pair of shoes for your little one.

You often see parents go down on their knees and push on toes of their child and squeezing the sides of the shoes to ensure the best fit for their baby. This technique has become out dated and incorrect. If the correct fitting of the shoe needs to be determined, then while putting the shoe on just see how much space is there in the shoe which should be equal to the width of the child’s thumb and not the parent’s thumb. This is also known as the rule of the thumb. It is easy and very practical to achieve. By doing this, you would come to know that your child’s shoe needs ample space to accommodate his toes. The largest toe needs to be fit perfectly to determine the overall comfort of the shoe.

The baby shoes you are getting for your child should be comfortable the first time he wears it. Some parents often think that the shoe might get a little loose after wearing for a couple of times so a little tighter one would be just right but that is often not true. It would not only hurt the feet till the shoe gets loose but also make the child fussy. Similarly, getting a size or two larger is not a good idea. Parents often feel their child would grow more soon so they should get a larger size but it might make the child fall down on larger shoes. A very careful selection needs to be done when getting baby charm shoes.