to see a boy in shorts this morning and think...

[BillyBollyBandy]

I know how that conversation went this morning

2 boys, 1 mum. 1 boy in trousers and very wrapped up. 1 mum very wrapped up. 1 boy in shorts and a light coat.

I just bet there was a

"put your trousers on"
"I don't need them"
"you'll feeze"
"no I won't"

"do what you like but you will be cold all day"

Or I am projecting and that only happens in my house?

My uncle is 49 and only wears long trousers for work, nights out and on Christmas Day out of respect for my auntie whose in her 70's and like us to get fancy for Christmas lunch. The rest of the time he can be found in shorts and flip flops and usually cooking on a BBQ!

Disclaimer: we do not live in tropical climes but in fact in the north east of England!

Who's stupid bloody auto correct

Yesterday my 8yo DD had been wearing a fetching tights and shorts combo. Not my favourite look, but tolerable. However she had a swimming lesson in the evening and needed to get changed (can't face trying to get tights on to slightly damp skin).

Off she went and 5mins later appeared in a sundress.

She was most when I suggested that trousers and a long sleeve top might be in order.

My DS (nearly 13) has always been One of Those Children who refuse to put on warm clothes.
I had (a bit) of control when he was little.
Then when I use to see him in his classroom ,he'd be peeling off his jumper as soon as his coat is off [sigh]

Here they want to wear tights Under jeans and a scarf.. IN SUMMER!

My DD2 refuses to put on her coat. She feels the cold though and puts it on as soon as the cold air hits her.

DD went out today in a jumper, skirt and short stripy socks, worn with her school shoes. She looked like something out of Milly Molly Mandy and I got some strange looks in the shops, but she's like a little hot water bottle, she never feels the cold!

I got a call from the school on Tuesday to say that DD had turned up two days in a row with no socks on and was there a problem.
She's 11 and if she wants to have cold feet that's up to her, she has plenty of socks and tights.
TBH, I hadn't even noticed she wasn't wearing socks!

DS seemed proud that he was the only boy in school still wearing shorts on the last day of the half-term. And he always comes out in only the polo shirt. Perhaps the teacher also chooses her battles ?

Ds2 is that child. He's only 3 bit already the battle of will to get him to keep a hoodie/long sleeved top on is more than I can endure... Coat? No chance!

He wears shorts and t-shirt in the house... We have no central heating, the house is currently 10 degrees! He takes socks off as he's too hot, insists on showers so cool they might as well be cold water, cries if I put heaters on.

The looks I get when we're out with him dressed as if it's midsummer!

We moved froma very hot country to a very cold country during a January cold snap. It was a frosty -21. My DS who was two at the time would not wear a hat. His ears were bright red and I thought they were going to drop off. He got better over time but his default clothes have always been shorts and a teeshirt.

The problem with very cold countries is that shops, schools and houses are often very warm so you always seem to be peeling off layers of clothes. Sometimes it seemed easier to dash out underdressed.

I had 3 DC's under four and when we went out when it was vey cold it seemed to take forever to get ready and it seemed like every time we were just about to leave one of the DCs would a pee. Grrrrr

See, I have an unstoppable welly wearing boy, who looks out of the window, sees bright sunshine and gets his wellies.

The first drop of bloody rain, though, and out come the jelly shoes.

YANBU!
I once (aged 5) walked half way to school, through the snow in my bare feet after an argument like that.
My mum had my shoes in her hand and kept asking if I was cold and wanted them back. I was FREEZING but I was determined not to give in.

DS wore a short sleeved tshirt to go to Asda this morning. Got a couple of old ladies telling me he will be freezing without a jumper on. You know, the jumper I had in my hand that he had just taken off for the umpteenth time. Got a bit cross with it to be honest. I can't, and won't force my dc's to wear something they don't want to wear. It's not a fight I want, nor need.

I think you might have seen me and my DSs this morning!

DS1 will dress appropriately. DS2 this morning was, as usual, in shorts and T-shirt and today, although he did condescend to wear a fleece and his new RNLI hat, he chose to wear his trainers without socks!

I've given up as there is just no point forcing him to wear things he doesn't want to (there's a time and a place when I do insist).

I will know when it's cold (probably if we get snow!) and he wears trousers, otherwise he insists on wearing shorts to school too - it saves on washing and mending the knees of trousers though!

I just figure that it's no different from a girl wearing a skirt and socks!