teenagers and rainwear

you ground your 15 year old for not wearing a raincoat?

Buy him/her a raincoat of their choosing, get them to take it with them - if they are daft enough not to wear it then it's their problem!

Choose your battles wisely!

At 15 I let my DDs choose what coat and footwear to wear to school. If they didn't wear a coat and got wet it was their fault. I certainly wouldn't make a 15 year old wear wellies and a see through £1 rain coat in fact I wouldn't even insist a 13 year old did that. Yes perhaps decent shoes and coat. But it's very embarrassing for a teenager to turn up to school in wellies and a cheap see through raincoat.

I'm already having 'disagreements' with my 10 yr old with getting him to put his hood up! Also, there's no way he'd want to go to school in wellies and tbh, I don't blame him, I wouldn't make him.

Standard school uniform for teenagers in the rain is a shirt (untucked) with coat or blazer slung over their arm isn't it?

Same uniform applies in freezing midwinter, except a pair of gloves may be added for comfort.

teenagers don't consider the weather ever I see them all around where we live in shirt sleeves in the tipping rain and they never look as wet as me!

My DD has a faux leather jacket that she claims is adequate on account of its waterproofness. Further than that no teenager of my acquaintance will go.

Sorry.

Still reeling at the words "teenager" and "rainwear" appearing in the same sentence.

my kids would have taken being grounded than wearing any form of coat in any weather ever

B4g - pls tell me where I can get a £1 raincoat from!!?

Even if teenagers wear raincoats, they have to wear them open and with the hoods down.
We just came back from a week in somerset where it rained almost nonstop. Anticipating this situation, I took my dd to blacks, where we had this huge row about what raincoat to buy. Her choice, a £160 short hipster raincoat and my choice a thigh length navy blue raincoat for £60. Fed up and exasperated, I called over a member of staff to 'discuss' the pros and cons of both selections, with me giving him the evil eye, just to make sure he said the right thing!
In the end, we bought the £60 one, with my dd vowing never to wear it, other than on walks in somerset. I needed a bottle of wine for the stress, anxiety and embarrassment that the trip had caused.
As soon as we got home, we were going out to eat, and my dd selected the coat she was never ever going to wear!

I agree with Back f g. Fashion conscious teenagers will only wear what they want. Mine wears a stylish jacket I got from T K Maxx.

Seriously ? You expected teenage dc to turn up at school in plastic £1 rain coats, and wellies
This is a wind up by a teenager isn't it ?
No parent of 2 actual teens would seriously try to embarass their dc like this. There are limits.

I will forever defend teenagers from this accusation.

Two weeks ago - in rain like we are getting now - I went to an outside concert. Everyone knew it was outside! No excuses. In front of us was a family of three and a family of four. They ALL wore clothes like they were off to the theatre. One group had coats but thin summer jackets only. The other group didn't have any coats! Some parents are just as bad! Unfortunately, it really did rain (we were cold in our foul weather gear until we started dancing) and they all left after only half an hour. At £60 a ticket they must have been wet!