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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never much cared for licensed characters on kids clothes, though each of my kids have one or two t-shirts that they received as gifts or hand me downs that they wear with licensed characters.  DS, who is not very "cool" by most standards, will be starting Kindergarten in the Fall.  Am I doing him a disservice if I keep dressing him in Mini Boden, Tea, and other clothes that I like and he happily accepts?  Or should I buy him character stuff or, worse in my opinion, athletic wear?  And is he even worse off if he is wearing stuff he really knows nothing about?  The other day he confused a minion for spongebob.  Please don't flame me.  This isn't about trying to make my kid cool.  It is just trying to avoid being the cause of him standing out.  FWIW, he is well liked, no real close friends, but everyone likes him, he is sweet, empathetic, smart as a whip, and funny, at least to adults.  He just doesn't have a lot of the same interested as other kids his age.  [/quote]

Like you, I want my children to be culturally literate. And, in K that means having an awareness of all the TV shows you mention. Not only to I not care for licensed characters on clothing (or sportswear), I don't expose them to things like Sponge Bob. It's asinine. I watch superhero shows with my children, and make choices based on what I see. There are some shows that have great stories, like Green Lantern, a great cartoon. But others are just violence or feature decidedly stupid characters.

They wear uniforms at school, but even outside of that we don't have any cartoon clothing. Their backpacks area also free of these images.

Being able to share in playground discussions is important, so they get enough of that to interact with their school friends easily.

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