Spotting a shoe fiend in her early years

A friend mentioned that her niece was behaving weirdly. All of 2 years old, she refused to remove her new pair of shoes before going to bed. I said, of course. That is probably the first few signs that she is going to be a shoe maniac.

Spot other symptoms in your children (compiled by my own behaviour as a child)..
1. the child refuses to go to sleep - the fear is that she may have to remove her shoes
2. the child, when agreeing to sleep, still refuses to remove her shoes
3. when the child agrees to sleep and remove her shoes before doing so, she insists that the shoes be placed under her pillow - and can be observed clutching them in her sleep

So there. Now you know. Don't ever misunderstand these early symptoms again.