Speaking of uniforms

How do you convince an expressive little princess to wear clothes she hates? Meg always wears bright, colorful clothes. Sundresses, flowery skirts and bright pinks and purples. Her unifirm next year will be navy or khaki bottomes, and navy, light blue, yellow or white tops. I showed her a skirt that I bought her for school and she said there's no way she will ever wear it. I know she won't mind so much when she sees other girls dressing like her, but I really don't want that first day to be any more traumatic than it already will be... for her and me. My son will be fine because he wears those colors and styles anyway, but I am dreading the first day of making her wear those clothes.
I'm planning on getting her "build a bear" a uniform to match her, and maybe even try to convince her to wear it to daycare so she can get used to it. But I know my girl, and I know she will resist this new rule with all her might!

 

My girls go to an arts school and the way they express themselves is with their socks. I know it sounds weird, but they can wear any socks they want so when they wear skirts the knee socks are usually pretty bright and/or outrageous. If her school doesn't say anything about socks, you could let her pick out a couple pairs.

 

Does she like hair stuff? You could get her some really fun, funky hair bows or headbands to jazz up the uniform.

Most of all, don't let her whine and carry on about it. Sure, it sucks that she doesn't like the uniform, but neither one of you can change it. Just tell her this is what you're going to wear to school. When you get home, you can change into something more fun.

 

All of our schools K-8 require "uniforms" navy or khaki bottoms and the school shirts....so it is a NON issue, just simply don't battle it, let her choose the kind of bottoms she wants, pants, shorts or the cute little skorts but it isn't a choice on if she is or isn't going to wear them! give her the options that she does have to choose from.....hairbows, socks, shoes, Make it all about what she can choose!


Good luck, I survived with my older kids....they are a junior and senior this year!


Missy

 

My boys pretty much don't care (they are boys after all) but in our school, the socks need to be white. the girls technically are supposed to wear hair items that 'match' the uniform, but they seem to let a ton of non matching items slide. the only way my boys can 'express' themselves is by picking their shoes (approved ones of course like no crocs, no flashing lights shoes) and their undie wear!
so son, which character do you want to wear tomorrow???
I say go out to buy some great undies! A backpack she'll be proud to 'show off', matching lunch kit, appropriate hair stuff, etc...
the matching build a bear is a great idea!

 

My girls have just started Kindergarten and have similar uniforms with the navy or Khaki bottoms and they are very girly. I bought skirts and dresses along with shorts and have put them in another closet (in a spare room) so they know they go in there and can mix and match and pick out what they want to wear for school because it only has uniform stuff in there. They are excited about having the whole closet to choose from. This helped steer them away from the other clothes that they love to wear.