The underwear wars

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The underwear wars
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Sun, 09-10-2006 - 10:08pm

Yes yes you may laugh and giggle at me when you're done reading this.


Liam has been pulling at his shorts a lot lately; I assumed it was due to the fact that we've regressed a little with toileting and he's not the greatest anymore at wiping (or flushing for that matter;(


The last few days getting Liam dressed has evoked WWIII.

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Sun, 09-10-2006 - 11:42pm

ROFL, yep. Have those "A -DUH" moments every now and again. Just did it with Dave's shoes. Kid was fighting me huge on a daily basis about putting his shoes on for school. Dave hates socks but his dad is big on having to wear socks cause some people are RIGID. Ya know, I will wash the darn sneakers and put odor eaters in them but it isn't worth the fight for me. We finally got Dave wearing socks and underwear at the end of last school year but I was darned if it was going to be the daily ritual of meltdown because the boy had worn sandals all summer.

So Dave, wanting to please dad was trying to put on his socks too and every morning was a meltdown. Kid was literally crawling out of his skin. I was telling him, dude don't worry bout the socks. It only took me about 2 weeks to figure out his shoes were too small. ROFL. Lo and behold, bought the boy new sneaks and he is wearing them no problem, socks and all.

Best moment was getting ready for school one AM and Cait's AS teacher calls. I am getting the kids ready but OF COURSE I want to talk to her. Last thing to do is Dave's shoes and I had started right before I got the call. Well Mrs. R got a very clear picture that David DOES NOT LIKE SOCKS. I had to explain that while I only had 2 AS children, every sticking one of them has sensory issues. lol. I must sound like a nut.

Renee

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 7:59am

actually we had underwear wars at about the same age! Weston now wears either boxer briefs or underarmor shorts. He prefers the underarmor shorts but at $18-20 a pop we don't have enough for every day of the week and he's much less insistant on them now.

Good Luck w/ the transportation office!

Betsy

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 11:12am

Look out, angry Irish preggo with a hint of bp on the way....step back!!!


running a mile in the other direction, calling over my shoulder:


Yep,

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 2:09pm

Speaking of underwear...

My (almost) 8 year old insists on wearing his "tight-whities" on backwards. As if they aren't uncomfortable enough to begin with, but Backwards!!! Going on 3 years now. I try to buy him the boxer brief's, he'll wear those the correct way. It freaked his step-dad out to no end the first time he was helping (well, standing by to help if needed... depends on the a.m.)... he made him put them on the right way, and after an hour of fussing called me and I told him, let him wear them backwards, that's the only way he can wear them!

Oh, these lovely children and their sensory issues!

Nicole
Mom to Dominic (7) and Nathan (4)
Step-Mom to Lauren (6)

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 2:31pm

Nichole,


Backwards underwear is better than no underwear. I think Wallace Simpson said that, too.


-Paula

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 5:58pm

Just coming off of 6 years of wars just to wear underwear, I have to say that backwards is pretty ok too.

When they go no undies you best hope they wipe REALLY well.

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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 6:47pm
Son 8.5 wears his boxer briefs inside out,on backwards and below his big belly. Will not wear tighty whiteys. Sometimes (as in just this afternoon going to library & drugstore) he informs me he is not wearing underwear. I told him to keep himself decent and covered. Sometimes his pants slide down- he has very little in the way of hips to hold up his pants. it's always an adventure...Now getting him to change them everyday is a different battle. He'll change shirts & pants several times a day. But sox and underwear I have to drag off him and put dirty clothes into the soap and waterfilled washing machine. he has been known to take dirty clothes out of washer "for one more wearing."
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Mon, 09-11-2006 - 8:23pm

This thread is making me think of two things. One, my "NT" five-year old has never even agreed to try on a pair of underwear. He says it's uncomfortable, but really he has no clue. He's never let me even slip a pair on him. Kind of like how he's never agreed to let a vegetable touch his lips. And yeah, he wipes pretty good. He has peeble-poops anyway, from not eating his veg, and he insists on using Wet Wipes.

The other thing it makes me think of is Jim, from Huckleberry Finn. There is a scene which is actually quite sad and moving, where he describes how he was yelling at his little daughter to "close da doh!" and he got all mad when she wouldn't do as he said, so he hit her real hard for being disobediant. Turns out the reason she didn't close the door was because she was deaf, and didn't hear him...and there was this moment when he realized what was going on, and how painful of a realization it was. That scene made me cry, because it was too close for comfort, if you know what I mean. Your underwear thing isn't on that level, of course, but it still makes me remember that part of the book.

Evelyn, who says, "Read a Banned Book Today!"