text: These shoes look great and they seem to be very popular lately, but they are exceptionally uncomfortable to my child. This isn't a kid who has tender feet either. He runs on the asphalt with bare feet; the little nubs that make up the soles are exceptionally irritating. He even wore socks with them and they were still painful.<br />They run smallish...He normally wears a 12 and we had to get a 13.