JFF: Cute Stories of Your Kids Dressing Themselves for School

With my youngest if I am taking him to school I will try to lay out his cloths the night before. And ask do you want to wear this or this. I don't always let him totally pick cause one day it was about 100 outside and he wanted to wear shorts with a long sleeved shirt. I told him no and he threw a fit. My husband on the other had lets him pick more often and then when I see him I am like I can not believe you let him out of the house in that. Or when I say that Dylan (Son) will say daddy picked it out.

My oldest's whole 3rd grade class got to go to hear a symphony one year. I had found the nicest sport coat (Christian Dior) at a resale shop for him and had a turtle neck for him. He was so excited that morning he got up and dressed before I even woke up. He came in and woke me up handing me the camera saying I know you will want to take my picture! Yeah, I did! But I would like to have been awake!
Same year they took clothes to school to dress like a famous person they had learned about and the parents came later to hear all the kids. He was doing one of the Mayo brothers and I had him a suit and button down shirt and tie. The tie was loosely tied so it could go over his head. When I got there he had the shirt halfway buttoned and the tie draped over it. I call those pictures "the drunk doctor pictures"!
Another friend had tucked his sport coat in his pants!

My son, 5, can dress himself easily provided there are no snaps or buttons. Needless to say he must wear uniform clothes for school. I had the clothing set on the table in the morning while helping my 9 year old pick out which headband to wear. I walk into the room to find my son is dressed alright but his shirt is on inside out and backwards(it was a polo with two buttons that he did undo), pants are on the correct way, feet are in his shoes but he has no socks and he somehow managed to put his backpack on over his head yet it was facing toward me in front of him. I should add that my son is autistic and dressing himself is not one of his abilities quite yet. I wish would've taken a picture that morning.

When left up to my son 9 time out of 10 he will put on his swim shorts and shirt. :)

I have wasted so much money on clothes for my daughter the last couple of years. Because 2.5 years ago at the end of 2nd grade, before 3rd grade I bought a turquoise colored tank top, the kind with print partly on the fabric, but not on the crease. She has worn it every single season since I bought. She only takes it off for washing, then on it goes again. Yes, I am reporting that she has literally worn the same shirt for over 2 years. We have so many pictures of her in the same shirt, it's hard to distinguish what year it is. We joke with her about her limited wardrobe choices, but she doesn't pay us any attention. Eventually, I will turn her shirt into a memory page, or frame a piece, or figure out some cute craft to memorialize it.

My GD goes to a uniform school, so nothing happening there. But you should see some of the outfits she puts on to go shopping with me on the weekends! Stripes and poka-dots, all of the same color of course. Or plaid with poka-dots! I just say okay, let's go. I NEVER ask her to change or criticize. She can wear what she wants as long as it doesn't get us arrested!

I always set my sons clothes out before bed. (he has to approve them) but one day he went to wear my slippers to school (pre k). They have big dinosours on them. It was so cute. But I had to say no to the slippers.

Our son (4 yo) has always had a very strong sense of style and will often go through 2-3 outfit changes during the day (including costumes). Last year (pre-uniforms) it was a challenge every morning because he was soooo picky. This year is uniforms and we thought it would be such a struggle but thus far (knock on wood) it hasn't been too bad. This morning, however, he decided to test the rule and insisted he no longer liked his uniform. I tried not to minimize those feelings and just said, 'well, you have lots of color options and sleeve options and it's what you have to wear, so let me know what you decide' and left to get dressed myself.

Then, in a moment of brilliance (he thought) he came up with a 'perfect plan' to wear a long sleeve white polo shirt under a short sleeve blue polo shirt with his khaki pants. He thought he was so cool and original, I loved it. He told me, "all my friends are gonna think I look really cool." I said, "yeah, maybe you'll start a whole new fashion at your school and your friends will want to wear their shirts the same way." Ahhhh, and so it starts already!