To put tights on my son?

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He is 4 and has been wearing tights during the winter since he was a baby because they dont to long johns in small ages and i was getting his older brother LJs and the tights were cheap in asda. They are plain black not pink and glittery.

A few weeks ago i was dressing him and asked him to grab himself some socks, he said "i want tights instead" so i started putting them on him when ds1 ( 8) shouted in "erm, X (their dad's partner) doesnt really like him wearing tights" i replied that if ds wanted to wear them then it wasnt really anyone's business and left it at that.

Dcs have come home from a weekend at their dad's and ds1 asks me "did you get ds2's tights in the girl aisle or the boy aisle?" I asked him if someone had been talking about ds2's tights and ds2 said that "daddy and X told me tights are for girlies"

Is this really an issue? AFAIC they're an extra layer to keep him warm til he is big enough for LJs and he likes wearing them. He will be big enough for his brothers now outgrown LJs next year and still fits in the tights at the minute so why would i not put them on him? I honestly cant believe two adults would tell a child this about his clothes and try and make him feel wrong for wearing them. He is 4 fgs.

My DS had lightening McQueen ones from HandM and he loves them. In lots of very cols countries boys wear tights. I don't see what the problem is tbh a pair of woolly tights isn't going to make your DS gay or a cross dresser and I would be furious if someone else told me what to put my DS in.

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I think it's a good idea actually...as long as your son is happy/warm that's all that matters

Oh and I get the thermals from HandM too and they are great. DS wears them to football x

I've got 5 boys and have never put tights on any of them. But you are totally NBU. Why did I never think of tights? What a great idea.

Where do they do long johns for boys? I've never seen them anywhere and my youngest feels the cold.

It always makes me sad to hear of people depriving boys of the chance to be warm, in a practical way, in the winter. And to try and enforce it with sneering, too!

Monumentally unkind.

I bought my son when younger boy tights from Germany. They do a variety of thicknesses in nice patterns, look at www.jako-o.com ship to uk

Will look at H&M

Ethel i got long johns in asda for ds1. I have been told they do them from age 2-3 but have only ever been able to find from age 5-6 upwards. Maybe the smaller size sell out quickly? Or maybe they dont sell at all?

My DSs never wore tights, I can't think of a time when it would have been cold enough around here for 2 layer on their legs. I can't wear tights under trousers, my legs itch.

When I was little boys wore shorts all winter. DS1 still does sometimes.

I used to look after 2 gorgeous little boys whose mum always put them in tights. She was European. Nothing cuter than a little baby boy crawling around in a top and tights.

I'm chuckling because my son was sneered at and told it was 'ugh' that he WASN'T wearing tights at 4 in the European (cold) country we were living in. I bought him some pretty quickly.

Penis still fully attached and I don't believe he or any of his little friends caught effeminacy. However he was much warmer.

In the country where I live all boys wear tights in winter. They sell boy tights with diggers, pirates etc. And - shock horror - on snow days when the kids wear snow trousers to nursery (up to age 6) they run around in their tights when inside.

I do have to wonder what the hell my ex and his partner would say if either of our dcs are gay or become cross dressers when older or heaven forbid be a bit "girly"

Yeah, why would it be ugh exactly!? Explanation needed!

I put ds (nearly 4) in them. I think anyone who thinks tights for boys is odd, are odd themselves. Why wouldn't you do that for your child in cold weather?

God, I'd HATE to wear tights under trousers, horribly sweaty, itchy and clingily uncomfortable. But I suppose with boys at least you wouldn't have the thrush worry that you'd have with girls.

A bouncer with tights! You dont get much more macho than bouncers do you? That has made me happy to hear.

It's also very common for builders and labourers to wear them too.

Completely sensible idea, it is one of the few things that girls have that are more practical. Annoyingly, I've given away most of the DDs clothes, including tights so I guess I'll have to get some specially for DS.

Fine if you would do it for a girl too, but to be honest it never occurred to me for either of mine and I don't think they have ever suffered with cold legs. Never come across it in real life at all I don't think. I've never done it for myself either.

I've just bought DS boys tights by a company called slugs and snails, good to keep him warm when he is in the carrier

DS would definitely be the only one not wearing tights here in winter (much colder than the UK). I've often thought I should start a business exporting 'boy' tights over there.

Like snowpink it's perfectly acceptable to take off your trousers and just be in tights if you get warm

Tell the pair of them to get a grip, the sexist fools. In my opinion, the best parents are the ones who make decisions based on whats best for the kids, not what other people or society thinks.

If giving your child an extra layer underneath their clothes helps keep them warm, then why on earth wouldn't you do it? Everyone knows lots of thin layers insulates better than one thick one.

My ds1 and ds2 wear tights, Black, navy or grey but last week ds2 wore a pink pair as it was freezing and his ones were not clean, he's only 19 months so didn't care.

Ds1 is 6 and he wears them under trousers as he likes being warm.

I don't see a problem with it at all.