At what age is it truly inappropriate for panties to show?

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Anonymous wrote:Whose 3 year old is potty trained?!

Most of them are in my experience. No advice, OP, other than keep trying to push bike shorts.

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Anonymous wrote:Whose 3 year old is potty trained?!

lol whose isn't!? My 2.5 year old is now 90% potty trained, even at night and naps.

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Anonymous wrote:Whose 3 year old is potty trained?!

Why is this an issue? My son "trained" himself by 2.5 years.

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Anonymous wrote:What about boys? My boys are 6 and 3 and are skinny-minnies. Their shorts and pants slide down so the band of their underwear shows. How bad is this? Should I tighten the elastic adjusters on their pants more tightly, or get them a belt? Or just not worry about it?

I've been there. My boy is straight up and down with nothing to keep the shorts up -- or the undies, for that matter! My best solution is to keep his shirts long and covering up his waistline.

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Big difference between a brief flash ( no big deal) and a kid with her dress wrapped around her head.

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At what age do you tell your daughter to sit with her knees together? I am not a prude but remember being told to do so all the time by my mom. I don't want to shame my daughter. She's only an infant now but I'm thinking ahead.

We had a family friend come over and the girl (8, going into 3rd grade) sat on the couch spread eagle: sitting up, feet planted on cushions about shoulder width, knees spread. She was wearing shorts.

I definitely would've been corrected to not sit like that. The mother said nothing. What do you do say?

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Anonymous wrote:Whose 3 year old is potty trained?!

Mine. She turned three in May and is toilet trained.

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It was a joke, folks. But mark my words, in 10-20 years, it will be unironic. Just like a couple generations ago, people would be shocked at a 2 year old who was not potty trained.

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Who calls little girl underwear panties?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Who calls little girl underwear panties?!?

A lot of people. Also, "undies".

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Anonymous wrote:Who calls little girl underwear panties?!?

I do. From reading here I've gathered there are some who hate that word, but I use it.

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Anonymous wrote:Who calls little girl underwear panties?!?

Very weird.

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Yesterday my almost 4 year old was frustrated and for some reason her response was to pull the skirt of her dress up over her head and stomp her foot. I said "sweet pea, please don't show your undies" but no one in the grocery store seemed to care at all.

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Anonymous wrote:At what age do you tell your daughter to sit with her knees together? I am not a prude but remember being told to do so all the time by my mom. I don't want to shame my daughter. She's only an infant now but I'm thinking ahead.

We had a family friend come over and the girl (8, going into 3rd grade) sat on the couch spread eagle: sitting up, feet planted on cushions about shoulder width, knees spread. She was wearing shorts.

I definitely would've been corrected to not sit like that. The mother said nothing. What do you do say?

If you wouldn't tell your son not to sit with his feet planted shoulder width, etc, don't tell your daughter to, either. Let her take up space in the world!

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Kindergarten.
My girls didn't like shorts under dresses either, so we switched to skorts. They got used to them and now that they are schoolage are mostly into shorts/jeans.