I'm not sure if this is a problem or not.
DS is almost 4. For quite a while he's been very interested in what clothes he wears. He is very particular about certain things like having all buttons done up, looking "smart", likes to wear shirts etc. Recently though he's becoming obsessed with only wearing short sleeve t shirts. He hates jumpers and coats, if we put one on he is asking the whole time when he can take it off again and repeating and repeating back what I say "so I can take it off when I get to the car? Yes? I'll take it off in the car Mummy? I can't wait to get to the car...." He literally cannot focus on anything else or be distracted until he's removed the coat or jumper. He really tearfully protests any jumper at all, as people "won't be able to see my short sleeves". Coat he will begrudgingly put on until a pre arranged time for removal.
I feel like this is dominating his waking life a lot of the time. The night before he wants to know what t shirt he's wearing and tearfully asking me if he'll need a jumper. He often declines going out/to park because he knows he'll have to wear a coat or jumper. If we talk about plans at all he'll ask what he'll be wearing and feel upset if he doesn't want to wear that. He has free rein over his clothes within limits for the weather and I've tried buying special jumpers etc but it just doesn't wash. This feels like it's making him unhappy.
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4yr old DS seems constantly anxious about what he's wearing.
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Boysclothes · 22/10/2015 14:00
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