To descend to new levels of evil parenting ... and buy ds thermal underwear

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Ds refuses to wear a coat to school or a pullover. He has just started secondary school and most of his friends are equally as stupid when it comes to dressing for winter.

I have told him that in January he will either wear a coat or be sent to school in thermal underwear. If he "loses" his coat then he will wear thermal underwear under his school blazer.

Good luck with that OP

Do you not remember freezing in mid winter in the name of fashion? Leave him be!

DS wears a thermal vest under his shirt - sometimes he wears 2!

Get sporty base layers.

Calling them base layers make them socially acceptable for wear under school uniform

annoying that is exactly what I was going to say - base layers are cool my ds's are delighted with their stocking filler thermals base layers chortle

Thermals are really trendy in Y10/11/12 however YANU to decide whether he needs a coat or not.

My DS always wore a long sleeved t shirt under his school shirt instead of wearing a coat.

A thermal one is a good idea.

Unless there are lockers, coats are a major pita for dcs at high school. They aren't allowed to wear them inside at ours, and so the dcs will have to lug them around all day. Plus it's social suicide to be seen wearing one in our area..... sigh

I have bought ds a thermal vest and he seems up for the idea of wearing it.

If he wants it, fair enough, but at secondary school age, I think they are perfectly capable of deciding if they want to wear a coat or not. Their decision. If they get cold, they will work it out for themselves.

MYDC have a long rural journey on a very temperamental coach service.Over the last 8 years that I have had DC at secondary school many times the bus has got stuck in snow, or broken down and they have been stranded in an unheated bus for a long time before help has arrived.Therefore when it is really cold I insist they at least take a coat with them

ASDA do thermal white t-shirts which the DSes wear under school shirts (and, I've just asked, nearly everyone else wears a white Tshirt of some description).

DS1 will wear a vest but not a coat. It's only a normal vest.

DS2 wears shorts to school ..

If they get cold, they get cold

My boys all wear under armour under their uniforms in winter. I've noticed lots of boys wearing it

underarmour washes like a ribbon and acceptable to cool tweens

My two DD's were still going to Dance Festivals across Europe in November/December, still wearing short suits.

They wore tiny dresses at Christmas and will hit town at New Year wearing outfits that I would shiver on any beach, wearing (until I hit the Menopause).

Young things are not bothered by feeling cold, when they are in a social situation.

It's handy to have base layers in, though. They wear them if they do any Prince of Edinburgh type things.

DS1 loves his thermal tee shirts from M&S they are comfy to wear.

Buy the thermals by all means, but don't waste your breath by nagging him to wear them. He is old enough to know that cold weather means wearing extra layers, if he can't be bothered let him learn the hard way. Sounds harsh but in my experience the less of a fuss you make about something the more co-operative kids are.