Anonymous wrote:Local shoe store employee here. You can convert sizes. A woman’s 7 is a kids 5-5.5. A kids 3 is a women’s 5. She is not “too big” she is just right and lots of kids are her size.

Still big for an 8yo.

12yo dd wears a kids 4
8yo dd wears a kids 13/1

I’m 5’6” and wear a women’s 7.

My 10 year old boy is size 5 or 6. Different brands make it differently. So he has shoes in size 5 and 6. Most of the time, i can't find size 6 in the boys section and it's too small for the men's section.
So, most of his shoes are bought online where there are more options in size. And I hate shopping online. I prefer to go to the store but they rarely have size 6. I'm not picky with shoes and neither is my son. He just wants a comfortable pair of shoes to wear.

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Anonymous wrote:8yo DD--size 4/4.5
6yo DD--size 2.5/3
2.5yo DD-- size 9

I wear women's 9.5 and DH is a 13.

You didn't have huge feet at her age and neither does she. They're just feet, likely proportionate to the rest of her.

Size 7 for an 8 year old is very big... why say it isn't.

A kids size 5 is the same as a woman’s size 7. So no. It isn’t unusual.

7.5 year old in 90th percentile wears a 13/1. One of her BFF's is in a kids 2/3.

My 11.5 year old wears a kid's 3. She's also very short for her age, so I guess it's proportionate.

My 8yo (fall bday). Is about 80th percentile for height, 60lbs, wears a size 2. However she has skinny feet; I myself have wide feet, 7.5-8.

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Anonymous wrote:8yo DD--size 4/4.5
6yo DD--size 2.5/3
2.5yo DD-- size 9

I wear women's 9.5 and DH is a 13.

You didn't have huge feet at her age and neither does she. They're just feet, likely proportionate to the rest of her.

Size 7 for an 8 year old is very big... why say it isn't.

Because it may not be "very big." There is a range of normal, and 5.5 kids can be in that range for an 8 year old. My 4th grade DS and I wear the same size. Women's sizes are also cut much narrower than youth/men's. Big kid shoe sizes go 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7 youth, then 7.5 men's. A 7 women's is a narrower 5.5 kids. Not that huge.

We are all different. I’m 5’9” and wear a size 9, but my parents both had small feet for their height. I was wearing my dad’s shoes by age 10 (my feet had stopped growing); I got my period at 11 and didn’t grow height-wise after that.

OP here... I'm 5'6" so not that tall for a caucasian woman. My 8 yo with the apparently big feet is at about 70% for height. She had been off the charts from birth to age 3 but then averaged out in height. We have female aunts/grandparents who are 5 feet tall and 6 feet tall with most being between 5'4" to 5'7" and that's what were expecting our daughters to be height wise.

My 10 yo DD just moved up to a 9.5 women’s. She has huge feet, objectively speaking. So do I! I’m an 11.5, which is basically a 12. I’ve never understood why people think it’s embarrassing to have big feet. I am 5’10” and my feet give me a solid foundation.

Anonymous wrote:It’s really not that big , a lot of kids wear that size. A 7 women’s is a 5.5 in kids. And her feet might slow down. At 8 , my 10 year old wore a 4 (which is 5.5 in women’s shoes). At 10 she wears 5.5 in kids(or 7 in women’s).

Ditto for my 10-year-old. And we're tall and both DH and I are big-footed.

Anonymous wrote:I just bought my 8 yo girl size 7 woman’s shoes. I wear a size 10 or 11 but didn’t have huge feet at her age. I’m curious, what size do 3rd grade girls typically wear? My K girl wears a size 1. Is that big too?

I was 4’8” in kinder, 5’3” in 5th. Don’t know k shoe size, but 5th was 6.5. I sat down on the bench behind my mom, and we ended up trying on the same shoe and switching. I only grew to 5’4” and size 8.5w, so it’s believable to me, especially since some brands run small.

My 9 yo wears a size 6.

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Anonymous wrote:I would expect someone with huge like you would have kids with giant feet, so yeah, normal.

The average US woman wears an 8.5-9. 10 is not huge unless you’re short.

But congratulations on having a foot that’s maybe a few centimeters smaller. Way to go.

10/11 is about average for someone 5’10 or so. So if you aren’t that tall yeah it’s pretty big. But not “specialty nordstrom order huge” I guess. I’m 5’8” and wear 8.5 and feel that’s pretty right on for my height. My girls feet are smaller than mine were at the same age, but my 5’11 husband is in a 9 which is really small for a guy so there you go.

I will also add that this doesn’t mean that age will be wearing a 13 as an adult. Often the foot grows first and then the rest of them - so she might be gearing up for her big puberty growth spurt, a little early.

Anonymous wrote:I just bought my 8 yo girl size 7 woman’s shoes. I wear a size 10 or 11 but didn’t have huge feet at her age. I’m curious, what size do 3rd grade girls typically wear? My K girl wears a size 1. Is that big too?

Are you sure about the size you wore at her age? It sounds like she on track to have similar sized feet.