my kids are 4 and 6 and they have never wear anything other than Stride Rite and I always gave it 5 stars for the excellent condition; every pair of shoes have been passed from older one to younger one and even after that they were in excellent condition, almost like new so we passed them on to other kids when mine grew out of them; HOWEVER..... these Stride Rite SRT PS Jasper Sneaker fell apart, they cracked open on couple places on both shows; we tried to glue them thinking it will work but the front part is some sort of hard plastic which doesn't cooperate; I will still buy Stride Rite until they don't have my kids sizes anymore but this particular model, Stride Rite SRT PS Jasper Sneaker it's horrible bad.