Picky six year old, really gets to me!!!!

[crazydazy]

DD is complaining every single day now about clothes she wears. At the weekend we bought her 3 new summer dresses for school, first day back she refused to wear one as she said she didn't like them, as it was her first day back I let this go....she then came home and told me her best friend was wearing a summer dress and so she wanted to wear hers tomorrow.

This morning gets out the dress, she said she hated it because it wasn't straight at the bottom (the style is like a wavey edging). I told her she looked lovely in it but then she started taking it off, I shouted at her and said she was going to wear it because that was the one we had bought. She went to school in a bad mood and I am here upset that she has gone to school like that.

Does anyone else make their kids wear what they have bought or do they try and make them happy and go and change the dress?

We also took her for some school shoes at the weekend and every single pair she hated. She just seems to have turned into a teenager overnight and its driving me mad.

[Bozza]

Tricky - I think you maybe need to find some middle ground in future. With the dresses allow her to help you choose when you buy them, but then after that stick to your guns. Not sure with the shoes because you were obviously doing that already and it didn't get you far.

[gothicmama]

I know how you feel, dd is a mini teenager dreading it when she is one altho hope she will ahve got it all out of her system by then if she there when I buy she has to keep if I buy without her there then I change them ( tbh i 'm not brave enough to buy without her being there)

[milward]

Could try a choice of 2 items only - this has worked for me sometimes. Good luck xxx

[crazydazy]

I just feel like I have been hard on her making her wear something she didn't want to but I just get so fed up of her complaining about everything but when we take her shopping she just refuses to look at anything and says she hates everything.

She just acts so horribly spoilt and we have made her that way because she has always had everything she has ever wanted.

DS is so easygoing, he will wear anything really and never complains, mind you he's only 3 (4 next month).

[foxinsocks]

I'm afraid I just insist she wears what I've bought. We had to get dd some new school shoes recently and she tried on about 3 pairs (they never seem to have much in her size anyway grrr) and she hated every single pair she tried on. So I said, fine, we'll leave the shoes - your brother can have some lovely new trainers and you can carry on wearing your old, scuffed shoes - at which point, she reluctantly chose a pair!

It's horrible when you have to send them off to school in a mood but I bet she was fine once she'd been there a few minutes.

[scoobytwo]

she sounds like my dd and she is 4,she will only wear what she wants to wear