Go without shoes, so kids don't have to ... Watching the barefoot marchers make their way down the Avenue, passerby Barbara Rash, of Ocean City, said it's a cool thing they are doing.

(Data Points, FT Weekend, August 3): have them run barefoot! Athletes ran barefoot at the Ancient Olympic Games, didn’t they? And didn’t Zola Budd, who ran barefoot, break the world record in ...

Walking barefoot in the grass has always soothed me ... which grew thick yellow toenails reminiscent of my grandmother's. I loved the city but secretly longed for a backyard.

But unlike most parents, mum-of-four, Mara Doemland, 29, lets her kids do whatever they like - be it enjoying coffee, shaving their heads or eating sand. Mara spends a lot of the time barefoot and ...