My kid dresses herself, she looks worse than this most days. I’ve given up battling with her, especially if we are only messing. If we are going for a meal or something fancy I will insist, but why can’t kids just be kids?
I don't think people are saying that they should be pristine and unable to play and act like children. It's just that time and time again she shows how little she cares about their appearance in comparison to her own.
- She doesn't buy them anything new, if she does it's a £1.80 T-shirt from Primark (amongst a £100 haul for herself.
- Their clothes are ill fitting (Alfie's are usually too small and Woody's are usually too big)
- She mixes her colours when washing and tumble dries when it's hot outside, so the clothes are always shrunken, faded, sludgy grey.
- She never irons their clothes
- She puts the same clothes on them multiple days in a row even after it's been boiling hot and they've been outside all day.
- She never matches colours or styles. It's literally like she's grabbed the first thing she's found in the bottom of their wardrobe.