Six year old lives in Princess dress.

robpw2

crikey anyone would thik it was wrong for a 6 year old girl to wear a dress.. now if it was a 6 year old boy i could understand but even then i would say stuff what anyone elsee thinks

poppyolivia

aww bless her..my 6 year old boy is the same (but with boys dress up lol)...we even have to call him the name..ie Dr who!lol...I just roll with it..wheres the harm?..I've NEVER had anyone say anything though so I'm not bothered....I'm not sure what you should say.. just don't let it get to you. My son did claim a pink princess dress (his sisters) in December but would only wear it in the house but he loved it and he would twirl in it..we DIDN'T say anything apart from wow I love the frills and he was chuffed!..But for some reason he wouldn't wear it outside and he must have known he would get laughed at...I asked him if we could put it to the charity shop the other month and he said yes as its a girls dress and he doesn't like it...he must have just being going through a phase!lol

Molly41

Well at least she is a girl dressed in girls clothes. My youngest son insisted on dressing up in his sister's nurse's uniform at the same age and practically lived in it for the whole of the summer holiday. It was fine but finally my father passed comment and was told to shut up. DS3 does cringe at the photos now though and is a very macho 15 year old x

Lirin

My DSD wore Belle's dress from Beauty and the Beast when she was younger. Forever. She couldn't be persuaded out of it, not since we bought it initially and she had attention lavished on her in Eurodisney (very impressed, so many characters made a few mins to give her a special hello, or make her smile). Did get a few looks when she decided she was going to be a dragonslayer, then a policeman, and was running round in Belle's dress, a sword, and a Policeman's hat.
Now that she's older, her clothing choice is still bizarre! No odds- she likes it, and it harms no-one.

webitha

my 6yr also lives in her princess dress, alond with the stupid heel that came with them, she went to her swimming class in them (although in the end i did persuade her to wear a costume not the dress to swim) and then off to Mr T, she even rides her bike in them, hey who cares as long as she is happy right (and less washing for me lol)

Mojisola

gravitytolls wrote: »

During winter time, I just put trousers on under her frock, as she hated, and still does (6 yrs) trousers ~ 'boys wear trousers, girls wear frocks.'

Let your little one enjoy the freedom of childhood, when she doesn't care what others think and is free to wear what she likes without even considering the possibility of ridicule. All too soon an she'll be wanting to fit in.

I'm all in favour of children having the chance to express themselves - most go through phases on wanting to wear only specific things - and they have much more opportunity these days but I think the quoted bit is contradictory. She is already trying to fit in because she thinks that trousers are only for boys and, as a girl, she shouldn't wear them.

There are lots of subtle, as well as many blatant, influences around which affect the way we and our children think.

picnmix

My 3 year old chooses her own clothes (she is very stong minded and won't be swayed by any adult intervention). Sometimes it's dress up, but most of the time it is the worst combination of colours, patterns you could put together. When she was 2 someone bought her a lovely GAP skirt, this became her favourite and she wore it daily, I washed it daily, she grew - the skirt didn't, she still tried to wear it, it was a battle of the wills! She still has it and puts her dollies in it.

Today she has gone swimming with her grandparents wearing a bright yellow My Little Pont t-shirt, blue flowery leggins and a pink tutu!

I have to say I wouldn't have it any other way, I love this age and is much preferable to the pahse my DD7 is going through who wishes to be emblazened with the face of Justin Beiber for most of her waking hours:eek:

jamespir

ignore others if shes happy let her be

mrcow

Rachel021967 wrote: »

My little girl when not at school or Badgers loves to wear her princess dress. The problem is she's getting teased by others for doing so and some of the mums (who I suspect would see wrong in everything) down the park are damn right rude. However, most adults find it sweet and she gets great joy from wearing it.
Any ideas for rebuttals?

Rachel

If someone made a comment on one of my girls wearing a princess dress, I'd just embarrass them into not making a comment again using a selection of the following phrases.....

"What do you mean?"
"Sorry I don't get what you mean?"
"Sorry, I don't get it, what do you mean?"
"Sorry, she's a kid, I don't see the problem? Is there a problem?"

Ad naseum until they !!!!!!. They wouldn't make a comment in my earshot again.

If anyone made a comment to my daughter, I'd remind her that they are just jealous of her beautiful dress.

liney

"I see you don't let good manners get in the way of saying what you think!" Said with a big smile, usually gets the point across.

Depending on exactly how rude the Mothers are I might also add: "I hope your daughters don't hear you speaking about people like that: schools have very strict anti-bullying policies nowdays you know"