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About Put on Your Own Shoes Day

United States
EVENT NAME:
Put on Your Own Shoes Day
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Civil Rights , Lifestyle
Children , Silly
United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Dec 06, 2022
Ends: Dec 06, 2022
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DESCRIPTION:

"Put on your own shoes" is a metaphor reminding us to maintain humility and a warning to avoid believing you are above all others and selfish in the extreme.

For example, Mariah Carey admitted to "The Record" in a November 25, 2016 article that Oprah Winfrey, warning her to avoid becoming too diva-like and inaccessible, told her: "Don't let anybody think that you don't put your own shoes on anymore."

Another possibility for this day involves a call to action for the child slaves in Haiti, referred to as restavek. A restavek is a child sent by his or her parents to work for a host household in Haiti because the parents cannot afford to care for the child. In essence, it is child slavery.

How does this apply to "Put your own shoes day?"

A missionary and educator posted this excellent piece on March 29, 2016, about a young restavek forced to put shoes on a woman and then carry her discarded flip-flops up the hill while the woman took a motorcycle.

The astounded educator, taken aback, thought, "What in the world did I just see? Could that lady NOT have put on her own shoes?"

She approached the child, learned her story, and immediately advocated to get her into the mission's school.

It's a wonderful, heartfelt blog post accessible here:

https://blessedwithaburden.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/put-on-your-own-shoes.

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