to put my son in tights?

[PavlovtheWitchesCat]

he is 11 months old, dislikes socks, other than to eat, and so it getting cold toes.

I mentioned the fact that DH and I are putting him in tights (today in fact when I pop out to shops to buy them) to several friends whose opinions ranged from scoffing at the idea to actively telling me it is 'wrong'!

wrong? wtf? surely it is wrong to let him have cold feet?!

It is not like I am going to put him in pink stripey tights, and even then, wtf not?! he is 11 months old.

And now you mention it, why on earth are there no nice masculine coloured tights in the shops? Surely this is not a new idea to me?

The main point is that the child is warm...it shouldn't matter what sex they are.

I have a bil who was an undertaker and he always wore tights under his uniform in the winter to keep warm especially at burials!

nope

the joke is that some people would question what children wear to keep warm

Croatia, DinosaurRumpus: a place where they are very homophobic, yet make "boy tights" because It Makes Sense.

True, Rannaldini, but so what if someone questions it? Some people's opinions aren't worth worrying about.

I think it would be hard to persaude my son to wear tights as he is eight years old.

However putting a baby boy in tights is fair enough. I wish I had done that with my son. It would have saved a few lost socks.

He will be warped.

And very possibly a danger to others.

lol hully

I've put all my Ds's in tights when they were babies/toddlers. DS3 has some fab ones from H&M that have cars on them. Last year H&M also did brown and black stripey ones and a few other darker colours.
It is soooo practical when it's cold that I wouldn't actually give a shi*t if anyone commented, not that anyone ever has.

Of course YANBU but your friends comments are the tip of the iceberg.

My DS (19months) was admiringly following a little girl around the park last week who had a canvas bag with an upsy daisy on it. I said to the mother of the little girl something like "oh he loves bags and he loves upsy daisy" and she said "well I hope he grows out of it soon, that would be very difficult!" with a completely straight face. Made me very !

If you go to ebay.de and search for Babystrumpfhose there are loads.

Hully, you trying to get on Matthew Wright again?

i am going to get some for ds2 aged 6 months. imo ok up to reception. ds1 still likes tights in the winter under school trousers but i told him he's now too big and will have to suffer with cold legs.

here's a good website

I just don't understand why the fuss - from anyone.

As posters have said - in colder countries, men wear tights.
It makes sense.
leggings and trousers, even long johns, don't vut it - because you always get that gap between leggings and socks.

cut it, not vut it...

MumNWLondon - that doesn't make any sense, though.
why should he suffer cold legs, when you wouldn't do that to a girl the same age?

YANBU. Wehn I worked in a nusery quite a few parents put there baby boys and toddlers in tights.

yanbu.i used to with both ds's.common sense imo.its cold,they dont keep socks on etc.

I would have put DS in tights if he did'nt like socks but luckily we never had that with him.

Now he's 4 and we put thermal long john's on him in colder weather and layer them up as I think DP would take a freaky :o.

mine is 6 mo, i'll do the same if he starts pulling his socks.

maybe we should start a mn campaing: let the boys be warmed!

I know doesn't make sense.

I have loads of 6-12 month tights from DD but am now buying DS2 new tights as all the ones i have are too girlie BTW John Lewis do plain navy tights for all ages including babies.

DD wears tights and leggings (and skirt) to school in the winter, they are not allowed to wear trousers. Last year DS1 was in nursery he wore DD's too small navy school tights under his trousers. But not sure now he is at school not nursery, worried he'll get teased.

If you look at baby photos from the 70s/80s you can't often tell the sex of babies and toddlers from the clothes they are wearing. They just had 'baby clothes' a lot of the time.

Tights are fine on girls and boys.

Fab idea. Don't know why it hadn't occured to me. And I think I'll also get some pink stripy ones for my DS for shits & giggles.

i don't think there is anything wrong with it, i might just copy your idea as it is quite cold these days, so could be worth getting some tights in for my 10 months boy, im sure i have seen colours like navy and cream tights around??

You are all ignoring a very important medical risk. Boys are physically not the same as girls and by putting them in tights you are exposing them to the very serious disease known as The Gay.

Rough-house with your baby immediately to reduce risk of infection. You will only have Yourself to Blame otherwise.

Boys here (Germany) wear tights as a rule. Not sure I understand why someone would object.