I picked my battle and won!

[purplelass]

14 year old DD has refused to wear any extra clothes in this cold weather and walks 30 mins to school in rolled up skirt, thin short sleeved blouse and open blazer. She's relented since the really cold weather & worn tights but that's her only concession.

Having had so many fights in the past with her over why she won't wear coat / hat / gloves / scarf (just a scarf FFS, how is that so hard?!!) I've given up. I'll tell her what the forecast and temperature is and it's up to her, I'm not the one getting cold.

However, this morning there's snow on the ground so I've insisted she wear her trainers to school and change into her dry school shoes once there. It took 2 rows but I decided this battle was worth having and I won! She also wore a jumper, but this had to be instead of the blazer so I'm not counting that as a win...

I just had to tell someone

I feel your pain, my 13 year old DD also refuses to wear hat, scarf or gloves although she does wear a warm jacket to school but never zips it up.

Schools closed today so she was out with friends sledging, agreed to zip up jacket but still no hat, scarf or gloves.

DS2 wore his coat 👍🏻

And his normal slippy soled shoes 👎🏻

Woop woop purplelass......its these little victories that count 🎉🎊🎉

Well done... I've been bugging dd to get boots for ages (we live in west Scotland so even if no snow almost permanent rain!) rather than wearing fabric trainers all the time.

The snow is really bad here now and she's getting some tomorrow (if she can find a shop open - it's THAT bad here!)

Someone pinch me - she's apologised for being grumpy this morning and agreed I did the right thing by insisting