How long before DD gives in and wears them?

[cottonwoolbrain]

DD has been complaining its cold in class because of open and even wore her jumper today (almost unheard of)

I've bought her a couple of thermal vests - you'd think I was suggesting she coats herself in slime she was so disgusted.

She's 14 in year 10... do you reckon she'll give in and wear them if the windows are still open in late November or just come home complaining she's cold at school?

I answered she'll come round.
But I am in Germany and "Du musst die Nieren warm halten, Kind!" (You need to keep your kidneys warm, child!) is a message that is handed down through the generations.

@SoupDragon

You've done your bit and have provided her with warm clothes. You can now sit back and smile smugly whenever she complains of being cold.

(My youngest is 14... This is not my first time round! 😂)

DS has Sensory Processing Disorder. We're not at the teenage years yet, but we've had enough years of him not getting hypothermia despite sledging in shorts.

He has access to what he needs. I advise him about what is appropriate. My maternal duty is fulfiled. Gave up that battle years ago.

Interestingly, when he's been on thermal imaging cameras, he glows white all over while DS2 and I glow red. He genuinely is very resistant to the cold.

I have a year 10. Not a hope in hell for my daughter! She’d rather freeze. My year 9 boy will though.

@Bluntness100 more fool the girls then. My ds' tell me that white shirts and thermal base layers (esp sports brands) are acceptable wear for boys.

They do say you know you’re properly grown up when you wrap up warm without your mother telling you to.

Recently we were in loco parentis to a teen niece who’d come here from SE Asia to boarding school.

I must have told her at least 947 times that it was NO USE COMPLAINING THAT YOU’RE COLD IF YOU WON’T WEAR ENOUGH WARM CLOTHES!!
She’s at uni here now and I dare say I’ll be saying it again soon.

I’ve just read this to DD15 and she is 🤣🤣🤣 unless she’s asked for her vests, why did you buy them?
I’m a bit 🙄🤣 unless you live somewhere bitterly cold I think she’ll be ok and stop dressing her, she’s 14, let her make her own choices.

@cottonwoolbrain

Plain base layers one black, one white

Then do yourself & her a favour & start calling them base layers, not bloody vests, like she's 4!!

If they're decent quality ones, like Merino, & LOOK like base layers,not vests, then she'll probably cave in once it's cold enough.

If she doesn't that's her look out.

DS does better on PE days as he can wear his cosy dark fluffy hoody. He hasn't worn a school jumper in years.

I didn't wear a coat for a few years as a teenager. DM bought me a coat that I never grew out of in y8 and the next winter it was hideously uncool and babyish. I refused to wear it for years. She refused to replace "a perfectly good coat" I didn't own a socially acceptable coat until my 16th birthday!
(I still use it for outdoors DIY )

My daughter just started secondary & they don't even have jumpers for their uniform. She has her shirt & a blazer. She said there's no point buying a new winter coat as they have to take off coats before going into school & put them in their bags, & a big coat won't fit in her bag. She has a 10 min walk to & from the bus stop & is already complaining of the cold. But she's turned up her nose at the suggestion of thermals.

DD got told today at school that the windows will stay open and they should look at thermals.

She is in Y9 as well.

She has several sets as she is a Scout and they camp in autumn/winter. Normally she loves all things cosy and warm so I could imagine I will find them in the wash.

It is up to them in the end, you can only offer and let them learn it the hard way,

Our blazers are absolutely useless, horrid fabric, gappy, gawd knows who they were designed for a cardboard box of some kind.

Doesn't she know that in the alps, sexy ski wear starts from a thermal vest ? Doesn't she want to be the first, the trendsetter, the gal who leads the crowd. She needs to get vested up ASAP and get those vests on social media....

I’m sorry but there is no way in hell I’d be wearing a thermal vest now or when I was a teen !!! Why don’t you get her a cute jumper ?

To add, my DD15 and pals are all wearing woollen tank tops, all very fashion conscious girls, maybe she’s wear that OP.

I recommend a thin merino sweater under her school jumper. It is basically an invisible extra layer if you get it in the right colour/fit. Uniqlo has some good stuff: www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/women/knitwear/jumpers-cardigans/extra-fine-merino-jumpers-cardigans

My son always hates the cold and since a small child he has always worn thermal long johns and a thermal T-shirt under his uniform in the winter !!! He probably is an exception though

Being keen skiers in our family, school trips etc. some sites are quite good as are mountain warehouse and sports direct. Aldi and Lidl do ski weeks as well.

Marks and Spencer do some good thermals that look like coloured long sleeved T shirts.
They aren’t as effective as the merino wool ones or the knitted type but are much better for teens as look like leggings and tight T shirts.
Son wears merino now- he wouldn’t have at 14😂

14 year old's know better

they will learn...when they are 18

fgs the op doesn't mean a vest like young children wear she means a base layer like this
base layer top

@spiderlight and @Justsocross : Your boys will make lovely husbands as they are clearly very sensible young chaps.
Rule number 1 for a happy life - be comfortable and sod fashion!

I suspect that, because every child will have this problem, wearing base layers, long johns, tights etc will become the cool thing to do and they'll all be clamouring for them. Maybe the manufacturers should put logos all over them so they become fashion items.

@TwizzledTurkey

Have you seen the teenagers who go out to clubs wearing the teeniest of dresses in thick snow in the winter? I’d say most teenagers would rather freeze than wear thermal vests

God, I remember those days

I don't think I felt the cold until I was in my 20's

She'll get over it. Half of ours are already wearing baselayers.

No bloody tights and skirts nearer their chins than their knees, but they've put their thermal t-shirts on.

@SBTLove

To add, my DD15 and pals are all wearing woollen tank tops, all very fashion conscious girls, maybe she’s wear that OP.

Shit. I've been wearing one of those today. With a duck-egg greenish blouse underneath.

Does that mean...I'm almost trendy?