to get annoyed with daft teenage daughter because she refuses to wear a coat

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I mean for crying out loud, look at the frost on the ground

EVERY MORNING

me: where's your coat
dd: oh muuuum it's OK
me: get your coat
dd: but i will have to carry it round with me and I can't be bothered
me: it is FREEZING I have just scraped ice of the windscreen you are NOT going to school with no coat
dd: it's not even COLD mum I will be FINE
me: you will catch your death of cold
dd: I have got a t shirt underneath my shirt that will keep me warm
me: oh for god's sake

EVERY morning. Why do I bother. NONE of the kids at her school ever wear a coat. Bloody teenagers.

Being cold makes you more susceptible to viruses.

Marginally.

Don't English high schools have lockers for the children to store their stuff in during the day?? I am sure I saw lockers at local high school during a tour a few weeks ago... but they were rather under-sized. First graders in the USA have bigger lockers than I saw the other day.

Most do, as far as I know - but often not enough for all the children to have one. Plus if a coat was wet, it would get pretty manky shut in a locker all day.

themral vest

trendy hat and gloves

dd;s school had a jumper AND a blazer, so she wore jumper under blazer

lockers HA i laugh at lockers with their tiny keys that get lost leaving vlauables inside and then you have to pay for another one from the school office repeat, repeat, repeat

GetOrf - you surprise me you really do. I thought you would let your DD make her own mind up - I always thought you were hip and with it....

I have learnt my lesson on this one. Let them be cold if that's what they want or buy the bloody Superdry coat like we did!!! Saves your blood pressure reaching boiling point

You don't have to spend £££££ on the coat - I got the DS's for £65 each. They are not the mega thick ones, but they will still keep them warm and dry.

dd2 [15] has only just started wearing a coat this year she only wore one in the depth of winter to school before.
When I was at school I would never of refused to wear a coat I would of got a backhander off my dad. I was bullied mercilessly because of the style of them they where the same sort as my sisters who are 8 and 9 years older wore but we also had cloakrooms for bags and coats, dd's school doesn't but they have a locker for books an bags from S3 onwards.

DS1 take his coat from lesson to lesson.

I wore my coat and my vest. I liked to be different. And warm..

Think I was oneof the few who did. Can remember friends shivering in their jumpers. The fools!

I grew up in the north east. When I went to Uni in Bristol I was shocked that people wore coats. I wouldn't have been seen dead in one, even in December and regularly went out in tiny dresses and that's about it.

Now I wear as many layers as will fit on!

My boys (15 and 12) travel a rural 7 miles a day on a service bus which regularly seems to breakdown or 'get stuck' or even not turn up at all.So in mid winter a coat is non negotiable.being stuck in the snow for 2 hours on a brokendown bus could be very dangerous, so 'let them be cold' doesn't cut it.
I don't think they are teased or bullied because of having a coat ,they just think its a pain to lug round with them!

Forgot to say my mum nagged me LOTS but it seemed to work. And I'm turning into her...

If i didn't wear a coat i wasn't allowed out or to school. By the time I got to rebellious age i think I was used to wrapping up.

DD3 only started to wear a coat last year and she was 17.

Read the other thread and get a "reflective vest", hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah snort! All the cool kids are wearing them!

I apologise, "reflective tabard".

DS1 would leave home if I suggested a reflective tabard...

And quite right too, IMO

My 9yr old would leave home if I suggested a reflective tabard.
Does anyone wear such a thing, or make their kids?

The man from Ocado was wearing one, does that count?

Oh my Asda man was wearing one last night too.
I must ask next time if it's social suicide.

Our binman wears one too, doesn't make it right for a teenager, though.

With Ocardo and Asda man. it's probably a condition of the job. Try paying your teen.

I asked DD if she'd wear one if I gave her 50p a day.
She pulled a face as if to say, 'get to fuck Mum', and said, nooooo way would I wear that even for 50p.

I feel you'd have to pay a teen rather more than that and they would just tell you to fuck off.

As a teen and early twenties type I well recall doing this. I thought my outfits looked pretty hot and that coats did not do my style any justice, lol. In hindsight I was a fool. But I did not catch my death, cold as I may sometimes have been. Perhaps you could let dd select and then you buy a funky coat she is willing to parade about in. It is all about 'the look' at that age, it is everything.