Do you let your kids wear character shirts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand, ick. Character clothes are just frowned upon. Déclassé right?

On the other hand, this lego city shirt will make my son so, so happy.

What say you DCUM?

I can't tell if you are being serious with this post. It seems really, really ridiculous. But, I'll play along. If it makes my kids happy, then why not? I'm ok with it so long as its not offensive, or has foul language on it, or is too over priced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is something to keep in mind, your kids are going to get older. I taught my kids early about what was appropriate and what wasn't appropriate, tried pretty hard not to give in to tantrums over ugly character clothes and iron on Disney/videogame/tv show themed crap.

They are now in middle school and my daughter happily turns her nose up at half the shill they sell in Forever 21.

Here's the message, and here is why I was a "snob" about clothes when they were young: it's fine to have a few fun pieces that make you happy, but don't build your entire wardrobe on messaged/logoed/branded trash. Buy nice things that last and won't fill up the landfill. I'm happy your daughter chose a "save the earth" tee-shirt, but junk fashion is one of the reasons our planet is dying and humans are currently enslaved for their production.

Buy nice things that can be worn a long time.

Yes, I'm a kid's clothes snob.

Lol. But not the other half?

It’s fine to have clothes that make your kid happy. I have little kids, and they’re very active, and they play outside constantly in grass and dirt and streams. Their clothes get messed up, stained, and quickly outgrown. I don’t want to invest in expensive clothes that “can be worn a long time”, because they will not be worn a long time. So if Target has a bunch of relatively good quality shirts that are $10 and they have a Batman symbol on them...who cares?

My kids aren’t little dolls for me to accessorize in the exact way that I want because I’m anxious about what someone will think of me if they aren’t curated “just so”. They’re kids. They like what they like. And I think it’s unhealthy to prevent them from having at least some level of autonomy in how they dress.

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I never saw the point in "investing" in high-quality children's clothing. My kid plays outside and gets dirty. She draws and paints and does crafts and cooks and gets stains on her clothing. (She also gets bloody noses once a month or so.) I'm not going to buy high-end stuff to get mud and paint and bloodstains on. It's not like I stock her drawers with the most garish TV character-embellished clothes I can find, but an inexpensive Wonder Woman or Snoopy shirt? Not going to bother me. If the older kids I know are any indication, this phase will pass soon enough, but in the meantime, why shouldn't her clothes be fun? She likes colorful, happy, cheerful clothing, which, frankly, I think is delightful.

And my kid is not a doll or a status symbol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a big daycare that constantly uses a park near us and it almost seems like character shirts are the required, or at leas de facto, uniform to attend to the daycare. Maybe it's just a different mindset between parents who choose daycare and other forms of childcare, but I certainly don't want my kid looking like that.

Damn, this is some quality trolling. Well done!

Thanks, but I'm not trolling. Have you ever seen a daycare descend on a park? It is quite a scene.

The older kids are walking single file attached to a rope like a preschool chain gang. The younger kids are pushed along in these passive wagons that can hold around 12 toddlers. And they are all disheveled, dirty, and wearing a horrid mishmash of cartoon characters.

I'm sure it is hard to get kids up and out in the morning while the adults get ready for work. But, how can people not have even a modicum of pride in what their kids look like when out of the house?

People send kids to daycare in crappy clothing bc little kids are making messes, playing, eating, with other kids. Daycare is messy business. Nobody sends kids to daycare in their Sunday best. The clothes get trashed there.

+1

You send your kid to daycare in the clothes that you don't care about. Because, if it's any good, they will spend their days digging in the dirt, finger-painting, splashing in a water table, and otherwise making a mess. There is a decent chance that the outfit isn't going to survive the day, because of a potty accident or whatever, so they come home in a different shirt or pants. They are disheveled and dirty because that's what happens to kids when you let them play and eat and run around.

This PP is projecting SO HARD onto the situation of little kids at daycare walking to the park that it's funny. WFT is a "passive wagon"?

[Anonymous]

Such a short window of time. This seems like a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have got to be the most uptight pain in the ass to care about some kids characters on a tshirt. I’d worry less about the shirt than about the therapy your kids will need to deal with being raised by someone so ridiculous.

NP.

My kids have never worn character shirts or shirts with words on them. I think they are ugly and my kids never asked for them. They did have some Hanna Andersson pajamas that had Disney princesses on them but they weren't that into them.

I never dragged my kids away from the shirts while they cried - I just never offered them up and they never asked. It's a bit ridiculous (and rude, frankly) of you to make the kind of negative assumptions you did about people who might not like character shirts.

Also, there's nothing wrong with therapy.

Of course theres nothing wrong with therapy when you’ve got your head so far up your ass you look like you’re auditioning for cirque du soleil. Now unclench, and breathe a little, you’re gonna be just fine lady, Disney isn’t coming to corrupt your children.

Well, I guess I'm glad my kids have never worn character shirts since the moms of the kids who do are nasty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a big daycare that constantly uses a park near us and it almost seems like character shirts are the required, or at leas de facto, uniform to attend to the daycare. Maybe it's just a different mindset between parents who choose daycare and other forms of childcare, but I certainly don't want my kid looking like that.

Damn, this is some quality trolling. Well done!

Thanks, but I'm not trolling. Have you ever seen a daycare descend on a park? It is quite a scene.

The older kids are walking single file attached to a rope like a preschool chain gang. The younger kids are pushed along in these passive wagons that can hold around 12 toddlers. And they are all disheveled, dirty, and wearing a horrid mishmash of cartoon characters.

I'm sure it is hard to get kids up and out in the morning while the adults get ready for work. But, how can people not have even a modicum of pride in what their kids look like when out of the house?

Stop staring at children at playgrounds. Your level of disgust is seriously disturbing and you should not be near those children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a big daycare that constantly uses a park near us and it almost seems like character shirts are the required, or at leas de facto, uniform to attend to the daycare. Maybe it's just a different mindset between parents who choose daycare and other forms of childcare, but I certainly don't want my kid looking like that.

Damn, this is some quality trolling. Well done!

Thanks, but I'm not trolling. Have you ever seen a daycare descend on a park? It is quite a scene.

The older kids are walking single file attached to a rope like a preschool chain gang. The younger kids are pushed along in these passive wagons that can hold around 12 toddlers. And they are all disheveled, dirty, and wearing a horrid mishmash of cartoon characters.

I'm sure it is hard to get kids up and out in the morning while the adults get ready for work. But, how can people not have even a modicum of pride in what their kids look like when out of the house?

Stop staring at children at playgrounds. Your level of disgust is seriously disturbing and you should not be near those children.

She's clearly someone who doesn't have enough to do and is projecting her own insecurities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a big daycare that constantly uses a park near us and it almost seems like character shirts are the required, or at leas de facto, uniform to attend to the daycare. Maybe it's just a different mindset between parents who choose daycare and other forms of childcare, but I certainly don't want my kid looking like that.

Damn, this is some quality trolling. Well done!

Thanks, but I'm not trolling. Have you ever seen a daycare descend on a park? It is quite a scene.

The older kids are walking single file attached to a rope like a preschool chain gang. The younger kids are pushed along in these passive wagons that can hold around 12 toddlers. And they are all disheveled, dirty, and wearing a horrid mishmash of cartoon characters.

I'm sure it is hard to get kids up and out in the morning while the adults get ready for work. But, how can people not have even a modicum of pride in what their kids look like when out of the house?

People send kids to daycare in crappy clothing bc little kids are making messes, playing, eating, with other kids. Daycare is messy business. Nobody sends kids to daycare in their Sunday best. The clothes get trashed there.

+1

You send your kid to daycare in the clothes that you don't care about. Because, if it's any good, they will spend their days digging in the dirt, finger-painting, splashing in a water table, and otherwise making a mess. There is a decent chance that the outfit isn't going to survive the day, because of a potty accident or whatever, so they come home in a different shirt or pants. They are disheveled and dirty because that's what happens to kids when you let them play and eat and run around.

This PP is projecting SO HARD onto the situation of little kids at daycare walking to the park that it's funny. WFT is a "passive wagon"?

This! This is what will make a difference in their lives. Not a freaking t-shirt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a big daycare that constantly uses a park near us and it almost seems like character shirts are the required, or at leas de facto, uniform to attend to the daycare. Maybe it's just a different mindset between parents who choose daycare and other forms of childcare, but I certainly don't want my kid looking like that.

Damn, this is some quality trolling. Well done!

Thanks, but I'm not trolling. Have you ever seen a daycare descend on a park? It is quite a scene.

The older kids are walking single file attached to a rope like a preschool chain gang. The younger kids are pushed along in these passive wagons that can hold around 12 toddlers. And they are all disheveled, dirty, and wearing a horrid mishmash of cartoon characters.

I'm sure it is hard to get kids up and out in the morning while the adults get ready for work. But, how can people not have even a modicum of pride in what their kids look like when out of the house?

People send kids to daycare in crappy clothing bc little kids are making messes, playing, eating, with other kids. Daycare is messy business. Nobody sends kids to daycare in their Sunday best. The clothes get trashed there.

+1

You send your kid to daycare in the clothes that you don't care about. Because, if it's any good, they will spend their days digging in the dirt, finger-painting, splashing in a water table, and otherwise making a mess. There is a decent chance that the outfit isn't going to survive the day, because of a potty accident or whatever, so they come home in a different shirt or pants. They are disheveled and dirty because that's what happens to kids when you let them play and eat and run around.

This PP is projecting SO HARD onto the situation of little kids at daycare walking to the park that it's funny. WFT is a "passive wagon"?

This! This is what will make a difference in their lives. Not a freaking t-shirt.

Come on, everyone knows that character tshirts are the gateway to living in a trailer park and wearing cut offs with a wife beater as a cigarette dangles out of your mouth. Only the poors wear character tshirts. My Larla wears starched white frocks and just watches from the sidelines as nanny digs her holes in the ground for her.

[Anonymous]

Now I know the pandemic is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now I know the pandemic is over.

It feels good to argue about this type of nonsense again.

[Anonymous]

Character shirts are fine if they make your kid happy. I refuse to buy things that say things like "future heartbreaker" for my son. But characters/images he likes? No prob.

[Anonymous]

My cousin managed to keep her boys looking like little lord fauntleroy till they were about 8 and then transitioned them to business casual. I don’t live character shirts but that level of vigilance about children’s clothes is weird.

[Anonymous]

Yes. A lot of LOL, Simpsons, Harry Potter, Street Fighter, and Dragon Ball Z.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cousin managed to keep her boys looking like little lord fauntleroy till they were about 8 and then transitioned them to business casual. I don’t live character shirts but that level of vigilance about children’s clothes is weird.

What are those one piece romper things southern moms put their little boys in? I can't remember the name. I'm imagining them in these with baby boat shoes or something.