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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^  sorry but most elementary school kids do not have unfettered access to electronics with the weather app (nor should they). [/quote]

Many have access to Alexa and can say "Alexa, what's the forecast today?"  I also have a cheap weather station type thing in my bedroom that has an image of a guy dressed for what the forecast is (like this: [img]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media/mg/f819bbd3-510e-4e06-aaa8-abbf1f3b223a.jpg[/img].

This thread is cracking me up though. I haven't gotten my kid dressed in the morning since K - he's in 2nd grade now. Clothes are not something I'm going to fight him on - if he is willing to dress himself without a struggle, more power to him. When it was cold, if he didn't want to wear a jacket, I rarely forced him unless it wasn't getting out of the 30s or 40s. (He goes from the car to outside for 30 seconds to SACC to the classroom.  I did remind him that his teacher may not let him go out for recess if it was too cold, that usually got him to the point where he'd at least put a jacket in his backpack). He was wearing long pants and a long sleeve t-shirt every day.  A couple weeks ago if he came down in long sleeves and the forecast was in the 80s, I would casually say, it's going to be hot today, you could probably wear shorts. Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't feel like changing. Last week or earlier this week, I told him I thought it was going to be pretty hot from here on out and he could probably wear shorts from now on, so that's what he's doing.

I totally agree with the PP that mentioned empowering your kids to make their own decisions. There are natural consequences and they'll figure it out. [/quote]

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