Forcing kids to wear uncomfortable items

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The plastic things in the ear muffs hurt my ears and the duffle coat was claustrophobic and stressed me out yet I was made out to be difficult

Not unreasonable at all. As long as my children are appropriately dressed for the event and weather I don't see any reason for them to be forced into something uncomfortable.

I clearly remember being forced to wear all these fussy dresses with like... net inside to make the skirt Puff out and hating how the netting felt on my legs. Or sequins rubbing on the underside of my arms until it felt like they were bleeding and for what? Who did it benefit?

Exactly, I saw a little girl playing in the park the other day with a huge fussy dress on. She couldn’t play properly - what’s wrong with leggings and a hoodie?

Some little kids love getting dressed up in big dresses and find it fun. Just because you didn’t like that when you were little, that doesn’t mean all kids are like you were. If my friend’s daughter gets to choose what to wear, she will always without fail come downstairs in a party dress or a Disney princess dress, regardless of the activity planned. I’ve seen her tearing round an adventure playground in princess dresses many a time.

I often see little boys in skinny tight jeans and trainers and think they could do with tracksuit bottoms and wellies.

Comfort was always the most important thing for me when choosing clothes for my DC. That said there is plenty of comfortable practical clothing to choose from. I'd have some sympathy for parents that had to make the best with hand me downstairs that weren't what the child would have chosen.

I often see babies in stiff uncomfortable jeans, i always wonder why?

One of the reasons I went initially LC with my mother is that she put my Ds in clothes she’d bought him that were way too small. Twice he apparently asked to change out of them because they hurt him and she refused telling him it would hurt her feelings if he did.

I can remember the stifling duffle coat and woollen jumpers that I have since found I am allergic to. But in fairness I am old enough that a lot of the light comfy clothes we wear now weren't available when I was a child.
I tried to dress my children in comfortable clothes, but they still sometimes complain I made them wear things they wore quite happily at the time.

I thought this would be about school uniforms! Primary school HT a few years ago admitted to parents that the more “uncomfortable” a uniform is the less fidgety the children seem to be. I think it’s ridiculous but here we are.

My 6 year old ds wears skinny jeans, they're not jeans they are jeggings because he doesn't like anything with a hard waistband and he's tall and very slim so joggers long enough fall off him, also much easier to climb in trainers than wellies, he only wears his wellies if we are in the woods/beach in the winter or he's dealing with PILs chickens.

I'm sooo careful when dressing my DD (18 months) because I have many memories of being made to wear itchy tights, jumpers, scratchy fabrics etc. Promised I would never make her do the same!

Uggh. I can't imagine that an uncomfortable uniform helps with learning. I myself don't work well when I'm uncomfortable. I am not against school uniforms but surely the most important thing is that they should be comfortable? Dd hates having to wear a tie and it's a daily battle in winter. I wish they could just wear their PE uniform to school every day or anything thst is as comfortable as joggers and a t shirt.

I think clothes even 20 years ago were more uncomfortable. New modeen fabrics have made a huge difference. They were also handed down as they were much more expensive so oftem didn't fit as well.

That makes sense. I had some raised eyebrows from my parents when I talked about dressing my babies in things like leggings or sweatshirts but it was always in a soft fabric.

I never understood why old ear muffs used to have those plastic rings in them. They hurt so much!