It all depends on the climate! We moved from DC to Chicago and the winters are brutal here. So my son (age 8) wears regular jeans in late fall and spring and lined jeans in the winter. When the wind blows in the winter, it cuts through athletic clothes and leggings.

He likes athletic pants too but got over his dislike of hard pants our first winter here.

My prediction: jeans are about to go the way of khaki pants.

Neither of my kids wear them. My daughter prefers tights or leggings, my son wears sweats or athletic pants.

Both say jeans are for moms and dads.

My boys are in college and I bought jeans every year that eventually went to the donation bin with tags still on them. They went to a jacket and tie school, so it's not like they live in athletic wear, they just never liked jeans. One started to wear jeans in colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine do but I don't allow athletic clothing to school.

+1 my kids don’t wear sweatpants to school.

My kid isn’t allowed to leave the house without a jacket and necktie. (Indoors we permit removal of the tie other than on weekdays and at meal times.)

I feel like your sarcasm is missing a pretty massive spectrum of options between sweatpants and jacket/tie.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine do but I don't allow athletic clothing to school.

+1 my kids don’t wear sweatpants to school.

My kid isn’t allowed to leave the house without a jacket and necktie. (Indoors we permit removal of the tie other than on weekdays and at meal times.)

Anonymous wrote:Mine do but I don't allow athletic clothing to school.

+1 my kids don’t wear sweatpants to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine do but I don't allow athletic clothing to school.

I love you. Universe, please clone this person.

This was me. But by 7th grade, I gave up. It was t worth the morning back and forth. Plus they go right from school to sports practice every day now. They will still wear jeans on occasion, but instead of daily, more like a couple times per month

+1
By 7th, I simply noticed what every boy at my DS's school was wearing. DS wore several pairs of jeans in elementary but has now woken up and decided he wants to dress like his peers. We just focus on drilling into him when it's inappropriate to dress so casually. And for right now, school is very casual and we're okay with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine do but I don't allow athletic clothing to school.

I love you. Universe, please clone this person.

This was me. But by 7th grade, I gave up. It was t worth the morning back and forth. Plus they go right from school to sports practice every day now. They will still wear jeans on occasion, but instead of daily, more like a couple times per month

I’m going to stop buying them. I buy my DD 9 like one pair a season which she approves and then never wears. She wears leggings, joggers, and athletic wear