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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 502857" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I have always failed to understand why adults get so wrapped up in what kids are wearing. I have had people ranging from younger than I am to very elderly stop and tell me how awful a parent I am to let my child out of his room 'wearing that'. They are NEVER looking like prostitutes. They are always clothed and comfortable, they just don't always fit some sense of style. I remember days and days of tears with Jess when the ONLY tshirts you could find were so tight and skimpy a couple of years ago. NO ONE made them for a girl who developed early - and Jess has always said the Boob Fairy has alzheimers and visited her three time. So it was hard for her but we figured it out. I just NEVER CARED if they matched their shirt and pants. If it was overly obnoxious in color I might say something, and they DID have to dress for Gma, meaning don't go to Gma's looking awful. Mostly out of respect for Gma. They also learned to dress appropriately for church, for weddings, etc.... But mostly, it was not a battle I cared about.</p><p></p><p>Especially socks. People seem to freak out about socks. I will NOT mate socks. I don't wear them, cannot stand them, and consider all the hours I spent as a kid and a young mother mating socks to be a colossal waste of my time. Esp as my kids would unmate them to get 2 different socks to wear. You barely see socks, so WHY are they such a big deal? I had one little old lady SCREAM at me in a Krogers because my four year old was wearing one lime green sock and one purple one. I could have beaten Jess unconscious and not gotten such a response from her. My mother has wasted HOURS of her life nagging me and scolding me because I will not waste time mating socks or chasing htem out of my kids' rooms or anywhere else. If a sock bugs me because it is left somewhere, the owner gets a comment and then I throw it away. Period. </p><p></p><p>Trinity, in my opinion Tyrantina sounds adorable!! </p><p></p><p>I have a couple of friends who kept getting so worried about what people would think if their child was allowed to wear this or that and I found wonderful buttons for them - they said "I dressed myself. Don't blame Mommy." I thought they were cute.</p><p></p><p>I just love the commercial because it IS a funny costume and no one yells, the Dad seems so resigned, and the Mom has this blank, "Now what do I do?" look. </p><p></p><p>Of course the worry that they WOULD take it off was another thing. Jess had two periods of time when she was a toddler that almost ANY deep toned rhythmic music meant she took it off. ALL of it. Did not matter where she was. The look on husband's face when it happened at church was HILARIOUS!!!! Each spell lasted a month or two and was pretty funny, even at the time. We warned daycare so that they could be on alert, lol. They thought it was funny too, thankfully. I later figured out she had seen some fashion show on tv when husband was home and I wasn't. The models walked down the runway shedding their clothes to show off the lingerie they were wearing. They were so pretty that she wanted to do it too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 502857, member: 1233"] I have always failed to understand why adults get so wrapped up in what kids are wearing. I have had people ranging from younger than I am to very elderly stop and tell me how awful a parent I am to let my child out of his room 'wearing that'. They are NEVER looking like prostitutes. They are always clothed and comfortable, they just don't always fit some sense of style. I remember days and days of tears with Jess when the ONLY tshirts you could find were so tight and skimpy a couple of years ago. NO ONE made them for a girl who developed early - and Jess has always said the Boob Fairy has alzheimers and visited her three time. So it was hard for her but we figured it out. I just NEVER CARED if they matched their shirt and pants. If it was overly obnoxious in color I might say something, and they DID have to dress for Gma, meaning don't go to Gma's looking awful. Mostly out of respect for Gma. They also learned to dress appropriately for church, for weddings, etc.... But mostly, it was not a battle I cared about. Especially socks. People seem to freak out about socks. I will NOT mate socks. I don't wear them, cannot stand them, and consider all the hours I spent as a kid and a young mother mating socks to be a colossal waste of my time. Esp as my kids would unmate them to get 2 different socks to wear. You barely see socks, so WHY are they such a big deal? I had one little old lady SCREAM at me in a Krogers because my four year old was wearing one lime green sock and one purple one. I could have beaten Jess unconscious and not gotten such a response from her. My mother has wasted HOURS of her life nagging me and scolding me because I will not waste time mating socks or chasing htem out of my kids' rooms or anywhere else. If a sock bugs me because it is left somewhere, the owner gets a comment and then I throw it away. Period. Trinity, in my opinion Tyrantina sounds adorable!! I have a couple of friends who kept getting so worried about what people would think if their child was allowed to wear this or that and I found wonderful buttons for them - they said "I dressed myself. Don't blame Mommy." I thought they were cute. I just love the commercial because it IS a funny costume and no one yells, the Dad seems so resigned, and the Mom has this blank, "Now what do I do?" look. Of course the worry that they WOULD take it off was another thing. Jess had two periods of time when she was a toddler that almost ANY deep toned rhythmic music meant she took it off. ALL of it. Did not matter where she was. The look on husband's face when it happened at church was HILARIOUS!!!! Each spell lasted a month or two and was pretty funny, even at the time. We warned daycare so that they could be on alert, lol. They thought it was funny too, thankfully. I later figured out she had seen some fashion show on tv when husband was home and I wasn't. The models walked down the runway shedding their clothes to show off the lingerie they were wearing. They were so pretty that she wanted to do it too. [/QUOTE]
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