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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Send kid" 
OP, your words matter. Instead of how you view parenting, in other families, the kid is deciding. Or forgetting. Or is expected to take a coat and doesn't, because they don't want to. The kid may be getting-out-the-door on their own, more independently. Maybe all on their own, parent not home when the kid leaves for school. Greater independence may have a more significant positive result vs the poor decision re: a coat[/quote]

My parents required that I wear a skirt to school once a week, part of learning to dress as a professional. I wore my skirt and slipped my pants on while on the bus to school and put the skirt back on before I went home. DS has a jacket that he wears to school when it is cold. 90% of the time he puts it in his backpack for the way home and just wears his sweater. For all I know, he takes the jacket off before he gets to the bus stop.

I can tell him all that I want but he has plenty of opportunities to comply, wear the coat out of the house, and then do what he wants anyway. We did make him wear it to school in ES because his teachers told us that kids without coats and hats and gloves were not allowed to go out for recess. [/quote]

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