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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 13 year old DS hates and refuses to wear any sort of pants without drawstrings (jean, nice pants, khakis, etc). He pretty much wears athletic shorts all summer and sweats/running pants in the winter.

This is fine a lot of the time, but just this past weekend we went to a wedding and got in a huge fight over him wearing pants. He literally blew up in the middle of our hotel.

He says any type of buttoned/zippered pants are uncomfortable. We have tried different brands, fabrics, etc to no success.

[u]I am fine with him wearing sweats to school,[/u] if that's really what he wants, but obviously there are times when sweatpants are not at all appropriate, and we can't be letting a teen wear sweats to a wedding/funeral/formal dinner. Eventually for the wedding we told him he would either wear the suit or just stay in the hotel room and accept the consequences of his actions when we got back. It sucked because it was the wedding of my younger brother who DS is close with, but that is life.

I was just wondering if anyone else had any ideas for ways to help him get over this phobia of pants? All the pants we have bought for him fit and he will try pants on at the store with some light prodding, but when we ask him to wear them he gets angry and refuses to the point where when he was a bit younger we would have to try and physically force him to wear them. [/quote]

That's part of the problem.  We never let our boys wear sweatpants or athletic pants to school--nothing with drawstrings or elastic waist.  Jeans, khakis, shorts, some types of "joggers", etc.

As for changing it now, how to do that really depends on what the issue is.  "They're not comfortable" is really not a reason, especially for his uncle's wedding.  It's a power struggle of sorts, it sounds like, much in the way some people experience with certain food issues.[/quote]

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