For the last several months (ever since summer was over, really, and she stopped wearing shorts every day), Rachel's decided that she doesn't like jeans or any pants that aren't what she calls "soft pants." ("Soft pants" are either made of fleece or cotton knit.) So any morning that I try to get her to wear jeans or corduroys, there is a small battle of wills. Rachel doesn't usually win (unless it's a day we're staying at home and I don't really care what she's wearing), but it's a battle, nonetheless, and one I'm getting tired of.
This morning, for instance, I had a pair of jeans out for her to wear to school. "But I want to wear soft pants, Mom," she told me.
"You can't wear soft pants every day, Rachel," I told her.
"But jeans are for boys," she said.
"No they're not. Mommy wears jeans, Grandma wears jeans, your friends at school wear jeans," I replied.
"No, they wear soft pants," she assured me.
I honestly don't really pay attention to what her friends at school wear, and at that point I thought, "Why am I arguing with a three year old?" and told her "You're going to wear jeans today, Rachel. Some other day you can wear soft pants. (I honestly don't have enough pairs of "soft pants" for her to wear them every day, or I'd be doing laundry lots more than I already do! Plus certain shirts don't have soft pants that match them, so they'd never get worn! I'm all about the matching....and so is she, usually, but soft pants trump the matching, at least in her mind.)
She put them on without anymore complaint.
But today before she went to sleep for her nap she said, "I want to wear soft pants when I get up, okay Mom?" (She sleeps in just her shirt and a pull up....so when she gets up she has to put pants on again, and the battle could start all over again.)
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
I'm impressed that you're able to get her to wear pants at ALL. As I mentioned, Katy wants to wear dresses everyday, and after probably 3 months of daily fights and tears, I finally gave up and went and bought some more play-type dresses with leggings. NOW we battle over whether she can wear those or her fancy dresses hanging in her closet. UGH!
I bought her 4T clothes for next fall/winter and I bought hardly any pants, because they just sit in her drawer. But who knows what her favorite will be next year. And she says the same things about jeans, "But everyone will think I'm a boy! My teachers won't think that it's pretty!" Are you kidding me?
Funny! I think clothing must be something they're realizing they want to control at this age. Well, that and they are opinionated enough to make a BIG deal out of what is comfortable. At our house it's obviously not the pants vs. dress fight, but Kaden does prefer to wear "basketball clothes" (sweatsuits or wind pant outfits), and does NOT like to stay in his dressy clothes for nap time (or after). He also has his favorite types of socks and regularly changes them at least once a day!
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