High-heeled shoes are a universal symbol of adulthood, which is why most little girls tend to sneak into such shoes. Unfortunately, wearing high heels too young can trigger a variety of health problems.
Heels - pros and cons
Many podiatrists say that children's shoes should be supplied with a low heel, as this helps prevent flat feet. A different heel height is recommended for each age. Very young children who have just started to walk need to buy shoes with heels up to one centimeter high. Preschool girls feel most comfortable in heels with a height of a centimeter and a half. Girls between the ages of eight and ten can buy shoes with heels up to two centimeters high. And only after thirteen or fourteen years old young ladies can sometimes wear shoes with heels up to four centimeters high.
Failure to comply with these norms can cause problems with posture, lead to curvature of the spine and the appearance of flat feet, malformed feet and other troubles.
The stability of the heel is of great importance. It must be remembered that just two centimeters of a heel can increase the load on the spinal column by twenty-five percent. The safest heel is considered to be four to seven centimeters high, wide and stable enough.
Influence of heels on gait formation
It is best to explain to your daughter what the risk of wearing too high heels is. This is a challenging task as teenagers rarely listen to the opinions of adults. If your daughter wants to wear heels, offer her wedge or platform models, since these shoes support the foot without changing her gait too much. Shoes with wide, stable heels can be recommended for teenagers. They do not injure the foot as much as the narrow and unstable ones, but at the same time they allow you to master the basics of a beautiful gait in high-heeled shoes.
It should be noted that too thin and high heels radically change the not yet fully formed gait of a teenager. Try to explain this to your daughter, tell her that to wear stiletto heels you need to have a healthy spine, well-formed feet, developed pelvic bones. Doctors recommend wearing stiletto heels only after twenty-one years, when the body is already fully formed.
Many women, knowing how difficult it is to walk in heels all day, severely restrict their daughters in the choice of shoes, forcing them to wear sneakers and flat shoes. This practice often leads to the fact that girls begin to wear high-heeled shoes in secret from their strict parents, thus expressing their protest.
