It’s gross, especially if you have carpets. I was raised in a shoeless home. My parents picked up the idea living in Canada for a while and started doing it in earnest when I started crawling as a baby. Nothing like seeing your child lolling all over and even licking the floor to make you consider what you’re tracking onto it.

One of the odd but pleasant coincidences about my husband is his family doesn’t wear shoes inside, either, so he didn’t think that was weird.