My 7 year old daughter wears her crocs all the time and it sucks to hear that it's an added danger but to tell the truth it could happen with ANY SHOE. When she was 5 years old she was rocking a pair of skater Vans, we're talking the super cushioned, bubble style ones, like Ethnies but even more cushioned inside and out with a two inch rubber sole to protect the foot when kids are learning to skate on a board. We were on an MTA escalator when she started screeching. Her entire foot went under and the escalator just kept going. We were lucky she was wearing those sneakers because other then bruising and scraping around the ball of her foot and two small scratches where the escalator teeth pierced the side of her shoe she was fine. Yes the more cushioned shoe saved her foot but how did it go under in the first place. Its not the croc, its the escalators that are not being built to meet safety standards, that are equipped with malfunctioning auto-stops. I was holding my daughter's hand and she wasn't being rowdy and I wasn't distracted. We were just going up the escalator like we did every day.