I spent a good part of yesterday morning with Kiki shopping for school clothes. In this case that meant pulling boxes out of storage and sorting through to figure out what fits and what she likes. Over the past 10 months I’d accumulated quite a lot from garage sales and as hand-me-downs from friends & family. It was really fun to have a huge pile of clothes for her to try on. I had more clothes than she needed which meant that if she didn’t like something she didn’t have to keep it. She liked almost everything. She would try on an item and rather than just saying “I like it.” she would describe exactly what it was about the item that she liked. “this shirt is so soft!” or “I like the way it flares on the sleeves!” or “This one has a really good pattern on it, I don’t have one like this.” It was almost as if she felt like she had to talk me into letting her keep the clothes. She was even able to give me a reason why she wanted to keep two identical sweaters even though she already had more than would fit into her drawer. Going school shopping with my mom and trying on piles of clothes is something I remember fondly. I’m so glad I managed to provide that for Kiki this year. Now I just need to figure out how to keep her from wearing all her clothes before school starts.
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Why? School starts soon and they won’t be hurt by one washing before then. That’s one battle that I choose not to even try to fight this year.
Good point. I think I’ll follow your example.
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YOU always wore your new clothes before school started. Why should Kiki be any different? I decided that having a new outfit for first day of school was a parent philosophy. Kids should be allowed to choose.
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Yes I know. I remember arguing about it. And I remember being glad to have a special outfit to wear on the first day of school even though waiting was hard. As I got older I actually enforced that on myself. Which is probably why I had it on my assumed “good mommy behavior” list. Kiki has worn pretty much all of the clothes over the past two weeks. She’s still excited to go to school tomorrow, so no harm done.