Three pairs of ripped school trousers in as many days...

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My 4 year old DS has come home from school on Thursday, Friday and today with ripped trousers just below the knee (Monday he was in someone elses trousers coming home - typical PE day!). We've had plenty of ripped trousers over the years but three in a row?! I had ordered him two new pairs at the weekend (he needs M&S skinny fit, nothing else will fit him). So our three pairs are now back down to two. He ruined three relatively new pairs (bought in December as he went up a size) in three bloody days! Would it be unreasonable to ask school to check if there is something at child knee height that may be broken, causing this? Two damaged pairs I would have brushed off, but the 3rd has tipped me over the mad woman edge!

Can he wear shorts?

Cut up the small trousers and use the patches for the three fitting pairs - use repair glue to strengthen the knees.

Those rips are from him sliding in school or on the playground.

He’s four, why not just stick a black patch on them?

I think it’s fine to mention it to the teacher in a casual way.

Sew them up?

It looked like he’s poked a hole with something and pushed it out the other side.

Could he be sliding around on his knees being silly? Hard wearing carpet could wear through them quickly. Or climbing through outdoor play apparatus?

There’s also a chance they’re just from a weak batch of trousers- being school trousers and M&S I’d expect them to be more hard wearing!

Actually, looking at the picture, it definitely looks like they have worn through rather than ripped. It's probably just bad luck with the timing.

Mend them! And if they're too damaged then patch them.

I used to do this to trousers all the time. As someone commented above, it could be carpet shuffle damage. Is he on the floor a lot with toy cars or whatever?

My son wears m&s skinny, hes 4 and a half and has only just grown out of the size 2-3. They all got holes in the knee too. I wonder if because they're tight around the knee they wear through quicker. He looks a little silly in the non skinny styles but we haven't had issues with holes in them.

Definitely patch them. Looks like he's sliding around on his knees.

They will be sliding on something at school when they play (it was artificial grass at our school) - awesome fun but so expensive! Tried talking to my son and the teacher but in the end they found another game and the wrecked trousers stopped!

They look worn through.. he's probably crawling and sliding along on the floor.
My son was the same...even came home with friction burns on his knees from all the crawling playing cars/dogs/cats/whatever.

We even tried trousers with reinforced knees and they wore through quicker than his normal ones.

Maybe this is the new fashion

Looks like my son’s shirts when he put a pencil through them (he was around 4 or 5 as well!)

Shorts in February!

this is why little boys in the past wore shorts - so use iron on patches or sew trousers - after the first months I looked on the market - cheap trousers came up skinny with longer legs by the by - eventually I got so fed up I didn't sew them up - if he tore trousers he went with them torn - little boys are more active they play ball climb things they shouldn't don't look where they are going - yep I know girls can be active too - but little boys do seem more accident prone (mum of 2 dd & 1 ds & childminder of lots of both) as ds asthma nurse use to say when he came in with bruised grazed knees - ah good his lungs are working well

@MrsGrindah little boys use to wear woollen shorts all year with thick woollen knee high socks
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@MrsGrindah little boys use to wear woollen shorts all year with thick woollen knee high socks

They still do in the modern, forward thinking royal family- oh wait.

That's fairly normal for my dc.

My ds wore cord shorts with long socks to school; had he stayed there he wouldn't have gone into trousers til he was 11.

MrsGrindah Lots of the kids at his international school wore shorts all year round, and these were hulking great teenagers. They thought it was cool...I thought they'd get frostbite where they didn't want it, especially in some some of the cold winters with heavy snow that we had.

My ds does it regularly to joggers. Usually falling down but also scrimming around on floor, climbing and skidding.

Patch them up if you can. If you don't still have the smaller trousers use the worse of the 3 knackered ones to make patches from.

Sainburys Tu do slim fit school trousers with reinforced knees. Mchb cheaper than M&S.

Asda also do a slim fit school trouser.

I feel your pain, my 9yr old football playing ds had gone through the toes on 3 pairs of school shoes by October break.

DS is 7 and used to go through the knees of his trousers quite quickly. We swapped to regular fit (don't care if they are baggy on his skinny legs, it definitely saves the knees), I sew a patch on the inside of the trousers to reinforce them a bit (by hand so stitching is invisible from the outside, or you could probably glue them with wonderweb or fabric glue?), or I let him wear shorts on all except the most freezing days. .

Now if only I could find a solution to white shirts being ruined with black pen marks day after day....

My youngest wears shorts all year round with knee high socks to keep his legs warm. M and S sell boys long socks.