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[quote=Anonymous]This is a problem you have contributed to creating, OP, and now it’s going to be a lot more unpleasant to resolve than if you’d been insisting on appropriate dress all along.

Part of life is being uncomfortable. We wear pants, shoes, ties, nylons, etc because the occasion calls for it, not because they feel good. If you let him wear athletic clothes every waking moment, he will have a more difficult time sucking it up for events that require a higher degree of formality (like his uncle’s wedding). Start small - tell him Tuesdays (or whenever) are days he must dress appropriately for shool. Or start with family dinners at restaurants. But start somewhere and teach him to cope with real clothes before it’s too late and do it at times when there isn’t so much (like a wedding) at stake.

Disclaimer: my kids don’t wear athletic clothes to school. I wouldn’t allow it and never have. They all wear athletic clothes for actual athletics and to relax in at home. But when they go to school or out to dinner, etc, they wear what we call “real clothes.” It works because we started when they were young and never wavered; it was a fight ever so briefly in the upper elementary/lower ms grades for those who went to a school without a dress code, but it passed. [/quote]

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