Dd is three and recently has become obsessed with princesses, fairies, pink, blah blah blah, I'm sure you get the picture. Except now she is point blank refusing to wear trousers; it has to be a skirt or dress. She won't even wear pyjamas; it has to be a nightie.
Up to last week I was sometimes being very forceful and making her wear trousers/pjs and she was moaning for the first 10 mins and then was ok. For the last 2 or 3 days though she has been a nightmare. I made her wear pjs the other night and was quite pleased with myself for getting 'my' way but this was followed by her crying for half an hour and kept asking 'can i have a nightie, can i have a nightie' non-stop. The first thing she said on waking was 'can i have my nightie on now?' !
This morning dh and I tried to talk to her about wearing trousers and as soon as she heard where the conversation was going she got very upset and kept saying 'i don't want trousers' over and over. We said that we'd have to put a sad face on her chart if she wore a skirt after we'd said no, and she cheered up no end and said 'can i have my skirt on now please?' (the sad face threat does the trick for everything else apart from this!)
is it really that big a deal? I'm annoyed that she has some lovely trousers just sitting there in the drawer and think on one hand that she's ruling the roost and getting her own way by tantrumming. Dh has also pointed out, however, that she's a generally very good girl and she's not being deliberately naughty; she actually said that she needed to be a princess and couldn't do that if she had trousers on, so in her 3 years old reasoning, that's a good enough reason.
Any thoughts?
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Dd WON'T wear trousers
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Moomin · 28/11/2004 11:48
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28/11/2004 14:12
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