PP here- I really didn’t care that he wanted leggings. I was just surprised when I realized why

My K son wanted leggings last year. I got him the girls version from target and he put shorts on over it. Turn out there was an older athletic kid who wore athletic type leggings with shorts and he wanted to dress like him!

DD has a male friend who is 6 and wears leggings almost every day, he wears the girls colors because he likes them. He also wears shirts with rainbows and unicorns on...its ok. Let them wear what they want.

Another vote for Primary.com. Their leggings are incredibly comfortable, as are their sweats. All of their clothes come in a full range of colors, including traditionally "boy" colors. And everything we have ordered from them is good quality and very soft.

My 7yo also went through a huge leggings phase as a kindergartener last year. We bought the Gap "girls" version, which are perfectly gender neutral. Probably would have done Primary had I known about them then, since I prefer their stuff to Gap. He wore them under short, which was the trend at his school because "that's what the pro basketball players wear." ?!?

But I will say that we finally had to nix this because the leggings (or perhaps the shorts-layered-on-leggings?) would irritate his private areas and he was constantly "adjusting" things. When we packed up the leggings that got much better--now he either wears shorts (even when it's way too cold out, but his school is admittedly overheated) or jogging pants that fit pretty snugly.

Hanna Andersson sells something very similar to leggings for boys.

Anonymous wrote:Ski base layer is another option. My 5 yo always wants to wear his, it’s comfy and warm so why not?

Adding to this, they’re not long john style with the seams but more like plain slim fleece joggers.

Anonymous wrote:OP he said pants that are like tights without feet. So to me, that means leggings. What is the difference between joggers and sweats? We have sweats from Primary, which he likes the texture of, and the colors.

There are several boys in my kids 4th grade class that wear leggings under shorts. It seems to be a winter trend.

Ski base layer is another option. My 5 yo always wants to wear his, it’s comfy and warm so why not?

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I got ridiculed on relationship forum for my long post about patriarchy conditioning all aspects of life and being enforced by men and women alike. I guess women are conditioned not to be able to read a long text without paragraphs or realize that legs are legs. Notice that kids thought nobody is teasing the boy in school wearing leggings? However OP has already influenced her DS and supporting patriarchal values in our society. Oh, wait, was that too long without paragraphs?!

How's your back doing?

Another reinforcement for it. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grade son wears leggings all the time! Jeez DC Urban Moms!!! Allow your child to express themselves as they want to. Period. Commentary like this is why our society is so backwards.

A parent's job is to guide their child. Depending on the type of leggings, it is ok to say no or guide him toward athletic leggings, joggers, etc. My 5 year old DS asked me why boys don't wear lipgloss when he saw me putting some on. Should I tell him boys can and then let him put him it on? They still need guidance/clarity/whatever you want to call it at this age.

If you would give the lip gloss if he was a girl, then yes, you should. There is nothing wrong with a boy who is curious about lip gloss or thinks leggings are comfortable. Just like there's nothing wrong with a girl who wants to wear track pants or play Fortnite.

*I mean, there's something wrong with ALL kids want to play Fortnite, haha.

A quarter of the boys in K-2nd wear slim fitting pajama pants to school. I think it’s just a trend in this area because nobody else has seen this when I’ve asked. It’s wildly popular at our school (along with mismatched socks for girls).

Anonymous wrote:My 2nd grade son wears leggings all the time! Jeez DC Urban Moms!!! Allow your child to express themselves as they want to. Period. Commentary like this is why our society is so backwards.

A parent's job is to guide their child. Depending on the type of leggings, it is ok to say no or guide him toward athletic leggings, joggers, etc. My 5 year old DS asked me why boys don't wear lipgloss when he saw me putting some on. Should I tell him boys can and then let him put him it on? They still need guidance/clarity/whatever you want to call it at this age.

Yup, my third grader wears leggings. Under shorts, to play soccer, when it's too cold to wear just shorts. Old Navy sells leggings for boys.

If he's slim, then the Primary.com leggings might be good. My DD is very skinny and the leggings look a little more pant-like on her than other leggings that she has, and she says they are some of the most comfortable pants she owns (she won't wear what she calls "hard pants" like jeans). The material is also thicker, so they don't have that skin-tight look that a lot of girls leggings have.