My daughter wont wear Granma dress?
It is tradition to dress the little girls super fancy for the christmas eve party. This is my husband’s side of the family and its always fun. The adults are casual,but the girls are dressed to the nines. My daughter is four and she loves dressing up. She insists on a mani/pedi, crazy tights, poofy dress and killer shoes. Idk where she get this, because I am not the super girly type. She is, so we indulge her "creative" fashion sense. Here lies the conflict, her cousin who is 3 will only wear a dress if it has some sort of large animal or creature plastered to it and is worn over a turtleneck, i.e. dog,bunny, snowman etc. My Mom n law likes to match theyre clothes for holidays. My daughter refused to wear the last easter dress and my husband and son threatened to spill something on it shoud I force the issue. Sure enough Mom n law was disappointed. I love my mother in law but how do i avoid the
xmas dress without hurt feelings? P.S. she bought a cute punky tutu outfit for theyre pictures once and my brother n law thought they were too old looking on the girls. so that ended that. At least she tried.
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Just sit down with your mother in law and explain that while you agree it’s cute, the two children just have very different tastes and it upsets your child to wear clothing like this and the holidays can be stressful enough for children with changes to their routines that you aren’t willing to force her to wear a dress she doesn’t like.
Actually, it’s your husband’s mother, so he should be the one to sit down with her.
4 is so little , the granma should avoid such conflicts with lil girls , i hate my granma for that too
I would thank her for the offer but let her know you’d like to be the one to dress your daughter for holidays. That’s one of the fun parts of parenting after all. If it were a dress YOU wanted her to wear I’d think just tell her she’s wearing it and that’s that, but since you don’t seem to care for the dress all that much either than I’d tell your mother in law you are choosing your daughters outfit. Maybe ask what colors she is going with for the cousins dress and match the colors but a different style.. The animal turtle neck sounds awful! Haha!
Tell her she can change it afterwards. Like in a fashion show.
Instead of the saem exect dress could you guys settle for the same color and style? I sound like a lot of fun. Put a different twist on it this year.