Winter Clothes

Do your kids want to wear shorts all year? I see kids at the bus stop in December in shorts…craziness.  As a general rule, I tend to pick my battles about clothing.  My two lines in the sand are:

1.  Mikey is not allowed to wear the same exact clothing every day so the world knows he is cleaning his body and his clothing.
2. He is not allowed to wear sweatshirts in the heat of summer or go without a coat in the dead of winter.  He needs to stay within the bounds of safe clothing for the weather.

Aside from these two rules, he can choose what he’d like to wear.

That said, one year, he would not transition from his winter to summer clothes. He was insisting on wearing a sweatshirt, even though it was getting very hot. He refused to take it off even if the day got hotter when he was at school and I couldn’t figure out how to convince him.

What We Did

I removed the sweatshirts from his closet and I replaced them with a sign that said, “Sweatshirts not available.  Too hot outside. Use your list.” His list refers to Mikey’s dressing list which changes with the season. If your child is not a reader, your sign could be a picture of a sweatshirt with a circle and a line through it, the universal symbol for no. Plus, the sweatshirts will be gone so they can’t disregard the sign.

If You’re Struggling

If your child won’t choose the pants in his or her closet and the weather is getting too cold for that to be safe, you can remove the shorts for the winter and put them back in the spring.

Here’s my original post on the ongoing clothing battle.