To think a (just) 5 yo boy wearing a skirt at home is fine?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

I have 5 yo DS 3yo DD. DD is very girly and she has an enormous dressing up box, she also refuses to wear trousers.

DS loves to put her sparkly things on when they are playing and I see no problem with that?

However I've just got a nasty email from exH saying he couldn't believe I'd let DS 'run around in girls clothes'

Is he on crack? Oh I am cross.

Nothing wrong with it imo

Yeah, s'fine.

My 9 yr old has a frilly, lacy, purple party dress that he loves. And he likes to wear my make up. No big deal.

Nothing wrong with it from my viewpoint

Nothing wrong at all.
Looking back at photos of ds now 10, he was always dresses as Little Mermaid or wearing hair clips.

No longer does it.

of course it's fine!

nothing wrong with a 5 year old but I'm totally surprised at a 9 year old wearing a "frilly, lacy, purple party dress"

still different strokes and all that

sorry I said 'on crack'

It's a normal exclamation with y friends, hope nobody if offended.

But otherwise, thanks. I know it is fine. I'm just annoyed at the 'from a distance' criticism I guess.

I think he'll be the next eddie izzard, activate.

He just likes it. it's fine.

er, what's with all the 8's?

I had a load of 11 on another thread

9 on here

Sorry TDWP to hijack your thread BTW!

(And no, it's fine he can wear what he likes and the X can go boil his head)

I've got 9s. All the threads are doing it. Nothing on tech boards about it.

Anyhoo, don't think it's a problem if your DS is coolwith it. My little bro used to love wearing my clothes. He turned out a strapping great rugby-playing hetrosexual.

As it happens, my DS is wearing a dress, lipstick and his hair up, courtesy of DD &her friend. Meh.

I really fancy Eddie Izzard

besides the point but pertinent at the same time I feel

I don't see a problem. When I was younger and having my nails painted my DB would insist on having his done too. The other day I was looking at facebook pics of him in girl's pyjamas on a uni night out. He's a bit of a Jack the Lad type and seems to do very well with the ladies.

heQet -- I think our sons were separated at birth.

Does he perchance also have a urge to play oversized wind instruments almost his own weight?

(Somone pointed out to me earlier that anyone obsessive enough to try to identify me on here could do it instantly by searching for a combination of DS2's instrument, DD1's hair and DS1's form of SEN, so I'm being a bit more elliptical. Till I forget, anyway.)

totally normal IMHO

DS is only 2 but he loves getting DD's (she 4) "bling" on & prancing round the room with a handbag on his arm.

DH was just a tiny bit about it until I pointed out he was just copying his big sis, so what...He's just having fun, it doesn't "mean" anything and we've got the photos to embarass him with when he's older

you exH is BU IMO

Along with giving boys dollies, pushchairs, ballet and anything else that is supposedly just for girls, if they like it and no one is getting hurt then what's the problem. Let him carry on dressing up in what ever he wants.

Lance - his brother's euphonium.

Ah -- clearly separated at birth from BOTH your sons, then.

Spooky.

It's only about 100 years ago that small boys stopped wearing skirts. I think it had something to do with potty training, etc, and boys wore skirts/dresses until the age of about 5 or 6. A lot of those old oil paintings with children might appear to be all girls but many are in fact boys. It was the done thing.

My DS (6 today, Happy Birthday!) loves messing with his older sister's stuff, but then, he knows it's "girl stuff" he just thinks it's funny. Not bothered in the slightest.

Darts, in fact as toddlers it was quite recently? I am thinking of a photo of my father aged about three in a frilly white dress - v conventional family so I guess this was the norm