What size shoes does your 9 year old wear?

[Anonymous]

My 9 year old is a boy, but wears a size 6 kid’s shoe, which I guess would be like a 7.5-8 in women’s. He is 4’9 and 73 pounds. He has always had big feet.

[Anonymous]

Op - when DD was born I actually commented on how big her feet looked compared to her size. I guess she always had flipper feet.

For a 9 year old I just can’t believe how expensive sneakers are when they have this big of feet! Little kid shoes are cheap compared to women’s sized shoes!

[Anonymous]

My 12 yo wears a kids size 2, and as a 5'8" adult I only wear a size 7. Those are some big feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea the women's sizes and kid's sizes had that relationship (I'm a dad). My kid wears a 3, which is apparently a women's five? That's wild to me.

It's beyond irritating that they have a different size scale for women's sizing. Kids sizing just blends into the men's sizing chart. But for women/girls? Here's an annoying conversion!

Women's shoes are generally more expensive so hold onto the kids sizes while you can.

[Anonymous]

When my daughter was 9, she also wore size 9! Good news, she’s almost 20 now, 5’8”, and her daily wear and dress shoes are 9.5!

I am also 5’8”, but have 11s!

[Anonymous]

Wow, my 12 year old only wears a 6.5 women's. My 9 year old wears a size 3.5 Youth.

[Anonymous]

I am a size 9 women's and only 5'3 so there isn't necessarily a correlation. My 9 YO has a size 5 foot.

[Anonymous]

My 9 year old has size 3 feet. He has a friend who is two weeks older than him who has size 6.5...so lots of normal, I think

[Anonymous]

Size 13, but she's tiny.

[Anonymous]

My 9 year old is also in 13s. But she's barely 49" and 50 lbs. I'm a totally average size 7.5.

[Anonymous]

When my DD was 9 she was also a size 8. Then a size 10 at 10, and now at 12 she is a size 11. It’s crazy. She’s currently 5’8”, but I think she’s about to have another growth spurt. I think she is following in my aunt’s footsteps (no pun intended). She wears an 11 shoe and is about 5’11”

[Anonymous]

Similar to PP - My 3 kids all have big feet and their feet grew way ahead of their growth spurts, as they are all late bloomers. (Just turned 11 DD wears women’s 10.5/11 at 5’2” with no signs of puberty yet.). Some kids/adults just have big feet. We are tall parents but not exceptionally tall - and assume kids will be similar. And rest assured, finding size 10/11/12 shoes for women is not that hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar to PP - My 3 kids all have big feet and their feet grew way ahead of their growth spurts, as they are all late bloomers. (Just turned 11 DD wears women’s 10.5/11 at 5’2” with no signs of puberty yet.). Some kids/adults just have big feet. We are tall parents but not exceptionally tall - and assume kids will be similar. And rest assured, finding size 10/11/12 shoes for women is not that hard.

+1. Size 11 is very easy to find and there are a decent amount of lines that carry 12. What *is* annoying is a lot of brands stop half sizes after size 10. It’s annoying if you are a 10.5!

Anyway, I had very large feet at a young age but my growth spurt was late. I was 5’4 in 9th grade and continued to grow about an inch per year through sophomore year of college. Most of my female friends stopped growing before I did.

[Anonymous]

For those of you with larger feet (size 9 or up) how tall are you as an adult?

[Anonymous]

I was at least a 9 at 9. I'm now 5'11" and about an 11.5 (so usually wear a 12). Despite my feet growing early, I was a late bloomer and went from somewhere around 5'4" to 5'8" in 8th grade and kept growing through 10th.

Finding shoes is a lot easier now than in the pre-internet days. I can't really shop in stores, but otherwise, it's not that bad.