Monday, April 7, 2008

Matching or NOT



OK so Friday Zach was so excited to get ready for his mismatched day at school. He came running down asking me if the clothes in his hands would be good. Pretty funny that he brought down some very nice matching clothes yet on most days he doesn't match. It was so funny. Anyway we worked together to come up with something he liked and once he was dressed we got everyone in the car and out the door. Friday is carpool day for the kids. I take them to school and back and they LOVE it. They don't particularly like riding the bus but they look forward to Fridays. SO we pull up to the carpool lane and Zach is looking around and sees NO ONE dressed up. I asked him if he was sure that it was mismatch day and he nods hesitantly. I kissed him goodbye and watched as he walked to the door. I told him to leave all his clothes on because it didn't matter if no one else dressed up. He looked GOOD. But as he got closer to the door I could see that he slipped his tie off. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WE TOOK THAT MORNING TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING TO WEAR? I asked him about it as soon as I picked him up because he wasn't wearing his suit jacket or his mismatched shoes. He told me that he took everything off as soon as he noticed no one else dressed up. KIDS. But it WAS mismatch day. OH well. It was fun taking pictures and it was fun to see Zach help Ethan get all dressed up so he could be mismatched too.

1 comments:

Denise said...

It's so hard to teach them to have confidence in themselves!

My kids wanted to partcipate in mismatch day, but they didn't want to be TOO mismatched.

So they wore two different shoes and two different socks and they didn't match their top and their bottom...but nothing too crazy or out of the ordinary.

Which is fine.

But I feel badly that your kids felt like they had to take off what they were wearing to fit in.

I wish there was a way to help them feel okay with being different.

But I guess at that age we don't want to feel TOO different.

I guess we don't want to feel that way at this age either. (big sigh).