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Mom•Logic's Julie: My daughter refused to take off her pink princess sweatshirt.
I read with interest this week about the 11-year-old boy in Wisconsin who wore the same Green Bay Packers jersey for 1,581 days in a row. I can so relate. When my daughter was two-and-a-half, she fell madly, deeply in love. With a sweatshirt. And not just any sweatshirt, mind you--a hideous pink Disney Princess sweatshirt that I couldn't stand. I had always prided myself on dressing my daughter in the latest, hippest fashions.
I shopped at Babystyle, Hot Topic and Kitson Kids for nontraditional baby clothes and rocker T's. But one day, I made the mistake of ordering her the damned pink sweatshirt from Disney.com. To say she loved it would be an understatement. She adored it, worshipped it, became obsessed with it.
Every morning, the only thing she would put on was the tacky pink sweatshirt. If I hadn't washed it the night before (and who the heck does laundry every night?--not me), I was in for a 30-minute full-on tantrum--kicking, screaming, the works. After a few months of waiting for her obsession to wane, her love for the shirt only grew stronger.
Finally, I caved. I ordered four more sweatshirts, one for every day of the week. I had a sit-down with all her teachers to explain that I really wasn't a bad mom who sent her child to school in the same dirty shirt every day. I was just the mother of a particularly stubborn 2-year-old who I was sick to death of fighting with every morning, that's all.
After about a year, without warning, the sweatshirt affair ended abruptly. She marched over to her drawer one morning and pulled out a purple tank top, and never wore the sweatshirt again. I guess you could say it was a clean breakup, and for me it couldn't have come sooner. I wanted to burn the damn things, I was so sick of looking at them. But I donated four to Goodwill and put one in the attic for safekeeping. I'm sure someday we'll both get a laugh looking at the sweatshirt she refused to take off for a year.
Has your child ever become obsessed with a piece of clothing? (Surely I'm not the only one!)
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I’m glad to know someone feels my pain.
My 3 year old daughter has fallen in love with her pretty pink princess costume from last halloween. It has gone from ball gown beautiful to looking like cinderella’s scrub dress.
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Kudos to you for picking your battles!! When my son (who is now 14!) was about four or five he decided the best shoes on the planet were his cowboy boots. It was fine when he wore pants, but when it became summer and he wanted to wear them with shorts and a sleeveless shirt, my fashion sense and the “what will everyone think of me?” fear took over. After all the battles that you are well acquainted with, I finally gave in and let him wear the shorts and boots out shopping. Of course we received all the looks that I had feared and I found myself explaining to everyone that caught my eye why my son was dressed that way. Then a little grandma came over to me and patted me on the back and said, “You are a great mom! You are not squelching his personality and you are more concerned with feeding his creativity than with what other people think!” From that day on I was just fine with whatever he wore, even when it was 95 degrees and he wore shorts, cowboy boots, and a big jacket that had tons of pockets to hold all of his treasure! :-)
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Apparently when I was about your daughter’s age, I became obsessed with a particular dress, which I, being the most stubborn child in the world, insisted on wearing every day.
So every day when I was home, my mom let me wear what I called my “fress.” I don’t think the obsession ended as much as I outgrew the thing, and it ended up on one of my dolls.
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Really people? Who wears the pants in these families?!?! My God! I have two boys under the age of 4 and Mom and I decide what they wear. They do have some say, BUT ultimately, we are the adults and we decide. It is utterly ridiculous to hear stories about kids wearing the same jersey for a year straight or the other mother buying 4 sweatshirts, all the same, so to not have to deal with a tantrum. Grow up parents and impose some discipline now so your kids grow up to be model citizens, not brats who know they can get their way by throwing a tantrum. I see them at the mall all the time and I’m proud that those aren’t my kids. Show some pride and don’t let them be yours either……
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My mom loves to remind me how much I loved a certain navy blue skirt when I was 3. Apparently she snuck it out of my room at night to wash it. I guess everything turned out ok in the end. I am now a grownup with a whole closet full of clothes and I am pretty good about rotating them.
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Parents are wimps today. They don’t know how to say no to their kids.
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