is there some intrinsic reason that children need to wear vests even if they do not wish to, claim not to be cold, and are healthy in every way I can see?

[FrannyandZooey]

row with my mother
please adjudicate

I am cold
I am wearing a vest
ds1 is NOT cold
he is an entirely different person to me
I was ill over Christmas
ds1 didn't get it

you know i think i should STOP wearing vests

Ah,Rev,maybe it is just a Yorkshire thingThe vest wearing.

I am in icy Yorkshire too.

(Goes off in flat cap to outside toilet and to check the whippets are OK.)

No. Stone-flagged floors are no reason! You just tip-toe across them, every now ans again wincing at the cold. And then sigh with relief when you reach the carpet.

at the stone-flagged Yorkshire kitchen. Do you also have an Aga or similar?

our house is chilly sometimes i am not denying it
but i do think a 5 year old is capable of regulating his own body temperature and asking for MORE CLOTHES if necessary

oh yes
when i pressed her some more she said it would make him "use up energy"

god help me

If I insisted ds wore a vest, he would just take off all his other top half garments and only wear the vest, therby defeating the purpose of it.

Both my dds wear vests in the winter though.
So do I
And i wear slippers

Oh my goodness! I saw the title but I never thought it would be you!! Wait, I shall read and judge

but vest wearing isn't BAD
it's just not COMPULSORY surely

(stands up) My name is chegirl and I am a vest addict.

I know there is no logic to it but my kids are practically sewn into theirs until they are about 5. When they are babies they wear them all year round unless there is an extream weather warning (heatwave that is)

pink it's me it's me
the witch has rallied from death's door and is plaging my life again

somuchtobits LOL
i could take a photo of him wearing just the vest? and say "is this better mum?"

Oh, no - if my ds wanted vests he could have them. I don't mind how many clothes he wears, but I'm quite happy for him not to wear them (and it saves me money not having to buy any!)

I would be the same with a baby out without a hat in winter conniedescending. As for vests I can remember them wearing them when small in winter but as they got older I cant remember but as this is Scotland they probably did. In saying that the coldest I have ever been is in London in winter.

I have never questioned vest wearing before. I have always assumed they need one on for indoor PE - underwear and vest - sessions?

But as I have never asked enquired as to what they wear in indoor PE, this may not be necessary and just a throw-back to the 70s when I grew up !

DH always teases me because I always put vests on my DC.
I wear strappy vest tops most of the time.

We don't use our central heating much, I find vests and cardies are cheaper in the long run!

My dd wears vests without fail

She wears them because they've got bows and frilly bits and some of them have flowers or fluffy wuffy ickle bunnies and all those things float her boat. If she gets too hot she takes everything else off

Old people are odd at times. My Mum has a vest thing too.

"it is your JOB to make him wear one!" I think the parenting role is not quite this specific. There are other (possibly even more important) aspects. You are not failing in your role as a mother.

"i haven't got the energy to argue" What she means is 'I haven't got a point, but I'm succeeding in winding you up'. She has a strange parenting manual which reads

1. make child wear vest
2. wind child up
3. pronounce grandchilds name wrong

She is a Very Good Parent. You would do well to learn from her

Revjusta - you are right about the slippers. I hadn't voluntarily worn slippers since I was 16, until we moved to scotland and winter set in. We have tiles in the kitchen and wood floor through the rest of the downstairs, and I was freezing from the feet upwards - until I got my wonderful slippers and now my feet are toasty warm - well, not at the moment, actually, but that's because I've forgotten to put them on.

'I haven't got a point, but I'm succeeding in winding you up'
LOLOL

too right

All my DCs wear vests daily, usually from when it starts to get cold (late Oct) until around Easter time - oldest is 12 (DD) and has graduated to vest tops!

Don't know why but it is an automatic thing for me to have them in vests all winter - and they have no problem wearing them - I think they would be underdressed without them .

DH would not be without one all through winter and has also been known to wear vests on breezy summer days - insists he will get a cold without one .

your mum is hilarious, Franny! could she have a word with my mum who put my dd to bed without cleaning her teeth last time she stayed over (I did not monitor with a hidden camera by the way, dd told me). She was also not wearing a vest when I picked her up

I like a vest myself and dd wears thermal vest and longjohns to school at the mo.. no doubt she will hate me for it soon!