What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter

[Anonymous]

Is this a new "cool" thing to do?

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the 80s...and boys did this all the time...and even in college in the 90s there were quite a few that did it.

[Anonymous]

This is not new.

[Anonymous]

Last year my then-first grader hated being cold. He wore a huge heavy coat, ski gloves, balaclava, etc. every day- even when the temp was 55. This year he has become acutely aware that BOYS DON'T WEAR COATS and now dresses accordingly. In January, when the high didn't go above freezing for almost a week, he (and every other 7 + yo boy) stepped off the bus every day with all his cold weather gear stashed in his backpack. Wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket. I've seen older boys wearing shorts on cold days, and DS still thinks that is weird, but it's probably a matter of time before he wants to do the same.

[Anonymous]

I've seen the shorts thing on moderately cold days. Not super-cold days. But the no-coats is new to me. And so young! Great. Something else to look forward to.

[Anonymous]

I've known lots of boys who go from 6th to 9th grade without ever wearing long pants to school or ever getting a hair cut (and getting a sure short cut in 9th grade). Compared to what you could be dealing with, I welcome these issues.

[Anonymous]

It definitely seems to be a thing. I watch these boys at the bus stop in shorts and no coats and they look miserable. But cool, I suppose.

My 6th grade boy still wears a coat. A 4th grade boy at the bus stop asked him "why are you wearing that big puffy coat?" He replied, "ummm...because it's freezing cold." The younger boy said, "true, but it's not doing anything for your image." My ds responded, "I think you need to be more worried about your own image and less about mine." Btw, my ds is a very cool, well liked kid. The younger one is not so much but trying damn hard to be.

[Anonymous]

I teach ES and it is pretty common for the "cool" boys to wear lacrosse shorts almost all year. It is pretty ridiculous to me but my son will probably want to do it too in the near future. The "coolest" boys with the "cool" older brothers do this in the primary grades but most of the other boys start in 3rd or 4th grade. Sure beats their pants hanging off their butts!

[Anonymous]

Climate change. It does not get that cold here in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Climate change. It does not get that cold here in the winter.

The boys got off my son's bus coatless one day in January when the high was 18 degrees. Stubbornness knows no hypothermia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the 80s...and boys did this all the time...and even in college in the 90s there were quite a few that did it.

+1 - I'm 34 and that was a "trend" when I was in middle and high school too.

[Anonymous]

Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.

I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".

Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.

Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.

[Anonymous]

Have you noticed a lot of girls wearing flip flops in the winter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.

I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".

Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.

Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.

Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.

I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".

Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.

Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.

Get over yourself.

Do some parenting. Stop letting your children run the house.