Shopping with 7 year old son

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Our family went shopping this morning.

The family was in the car when we set off.

We got to the shop. Our 7 year old son was walking holding onto the top of his shorts.

We asked him why. The elastic had gone and they would fall down if he didn't hold on.

Then I noticed a big hole in the back of the shorts.

I also noticed he wasn't wearing any underwear.

We bought him a new pair of shorts.

Last time I let him leave the house without an inspection from Mum!

Helen

I can totally picture that happening in my world! At least it was during shopping time, and not on the way to the theatre or church.

Thank you for the giggle.

I used to have to do the clothing inspections when my boys were that age. I thought when I had my daughter I would leave such things behind.....WRONG!!
She has an aversion to "clean" clothes. Apparently the longer you wear them before washing, the better they feel! After a few times of getting to our destination and realizing that my dear little angel looks like an orphan, we are back to inspections at the door.

I remember teaching toddlers at church and I noticed this little girl in her perfect dress,perfect socks, perfect shoes, perfect hair....ooops...no underware.Mom said, "I inspected everything, I didn't think to check her for underware." The funny thing is now, this little girl is now a grown woman with children of her own, and yes, from time to time I teasingly remind her to wear her underware to church, or she'll tell me she remembered to wear them. So Funny..........

That's so cute!
(BTW my hubbie once forgot to put his swimmers on after showering at the local pool... Didn't seem to bother him too much!)

Are your sure our son isn't at your place?

I read that one out aloud to my wife. She thought I was writing about our son. It's so familiar.

Our 7 year old sometimes gets ready for school but gets a few bits wrong (all at the same time).

1. no underpants.
2. pants on backwards
3. shirt on inside out.

Once we let him go like that.

It didn't make any difference to him, so there was no lesson learnt. That therapy didn't work.

Thank God!
Another kid who goes to school with his pants on back to front

As a kid I had a little issue telling the "front" from the "back" on shirts, sweaters and similar items of clothing. So on one occation she went ahead with what I saw as the coolest invention since the transistor, and knit a sweatshirt with identical front and back side for me!

At 7 he wouldn't be the only one in the classroom like that. From my experience, its not until the second half of second grade where that would be an oddity. Sometimes I look around at the kindergartners and frirst graders and pick out who dressed themselves and who has parents that dress them

My youngest son went to kindergarten every day for the entire school year with his underwear inside out and his pants on backward. He claimed they felt better that way and, I, not being able to tell him differently, went along with him. The teacher finally gave up griping at me about half way through the year.

my kids and hubby have left the house on numerous occasions with clothes on inside-out....

I never wanted to believe I'd outgrown favourite clothes or shoes so would still wear them when they were tight and uncomfortable because I thought mum would give them away to my cousins. She literally had to withdraw them from circulation after a while and that didn't stop me asking where they'd gone and getting upset about not having them any more.

I'd plead with her to buy the same things in a bigger size but usually the shops had run out of stock.

One morning mum took my little sister to church in beautiful clothes and shoes but when my little sister bent over, she had no panties on. She'd taken them off at some stage before we'd left home and mum didn't know because there were seven of us kids to organise.

My husband believes shoes to be an optional extra when going out.

I don't know if this is because he grew up in Africa.

When we were dating he rarely wore shoes - to dinner, movies etc.

My husband and the 3 boys go out bare foot with mismatched clothing. It doesn't bother me, but my MIL is horrified when she sees them in public.

My husband had very thick, unruly hair. He just puts a hat on rather than combing it.

He refuses to shave on weekends on holidays - that's only for work!

I've listened patiently to various friends over the years tell me I should buy my husband clothes, or make him change outfits if he's looking mismatched/shabby.

Little do they appreciate the stubborness of an Aspie.

It takes the pressure off me to look stylish!

Helen

I've never liked wearing shoes. I often tell my husband..."shoes are of the devil." but then when I step on something painful I hear a resounding..."I told you so."

We're a sandals kinda family. Actually the whole state is, they have to remind the kids to wear shoes on PE day. Back in California, sandals weren't allowed at school at all. I was figuring on writing that into his IEP once he got into grade school.

I remember being around 7 and going to the doctor and by the time we were in downtown (we lived out of town in the country), I told my mom I forgot my underwear. She was so mad. We had to stop in this variety/dept store that sold packs of underwear and I had to put them on in the car.
I couldn't imagine telling my son to put on underwear in the car . . . in downtown!