young kids dressing themselves

Both my girls (6,5) are pretty co-ordinated when it comes to choosing clothes so I tend to let them be. The only time I interfere is if they choose something inappropriate to the weather and suggest they choose something else. My boy(3) has to be generally encouraged to get dressed at all so I tend to pick his stuff for him - he doesn't seem to mind although his sister's do enjoy dressing him in skirts and making him a 'girly boy'

Oh yes what ever they pick out, on no school days that is, they get to wear when we are out of the house. I think it's cute and I want them to be proud of themselves no matter what other may think.

if we are just hanging around the house i will let her go, but if we are going out somewhere i will have her change. she does pretty good sometimes at picking out stuff that isn't terribly mismatched lol.

I always would let my daughter dress herself at that age. She would pick out the two items that mismatched the most, but always was so proud that she dressed herself. She is now 7 and still will pick out things that don't match. I will say, Kate, pink and red don't match and she will show me the tiniest bit of pink on her red shirt and say, see here is the pink. Who can fight with that. It makes her more of an individual when she picks out her own clothes.

I leave him that way. He's gone to school in some pretty strange combinations. I tried putting matching stuff together but that didn't work.

Hi, this is indeed such a loveable and cute age, to see them grow up like this. Yes my two daughters too have gone through this phase, though are grown up now, but when they were young they even used to raid my clothes and accessories and dress themselevs up. It was really a sight to see them do that, and seehow their minds run. Yes they used to mis-match their clothes, but we should always encourage them to do that, as its alright and thats how they willlearn to be perfect too i feel. But yes whenever we had to go out, and if they were not properly dressed, i always used to explain to them, what clours would match better than what they had chosen, just to make them learn, and soon they were doing a better mix and match than me!! They learn very fast, and its all a part of their growing up, enjoy them! :)

I would let her/him go they can put on what they like and if it makes them happy it makes me happy.

For the first time I wouldn't want to give any comments to her. Commenting too much will make her self esteem drop. I will just let her be this time. But after this I will make sure to have a conversation with her about how to match the color of dresses. I will try to make the conversation a great and fun topic to discuss, and even initiate a role play of matching this and that. And if I have the time I will ask her what she will wear tomorrow and if I found her choice is not suitable, I will give my opinion. I hope this helps. Thanks.

Oh my goodness...My daughter always used to do that ,I would just let her be, she was really proud of herself and I wouldnt cut her pride to pieces..I think thats its adorable..She was a child and its not a fashion show..

My son is just getting where he wants to dress himself now. Usually he will pick an outfit that matches, since I usually buy his clothes as on outfit, and he knows which pieces came together. Sometimes he will pick a shirt that didn't come with shorts, though. And then just pair it with whatever shorts he can find. Yesterday he picked out a bright orange shirt that had Tigger on it (he was part of an outift, but the pants are long) and matched it with a pair of blue camo shorts. It looked really funny, but he was so proud of himself when he showed me that he had got dressed all by himself! He had his shorts on backward, so I helped him put them the other way, and then let him wear that all day. I was pretty proud of my husband, too, when all he did was raise one eyebrow, and then ask my son if he picked his own clothes out. He told him "Great job Bubba!" and left it at that.

I've always taught my 5 year old to wear matching clothes. Young as she is, I wanted her to practice how to make good choices and coordinate her outfit. I know it seems too much for a little girl, but it's one of those things that I wanted her to get used to while growing up, and when the time comes that her own preferences manifest, she can just incorporate it with her own style. I dress her up in chic looking, but inexpensive clothes and I put together an outfit that isn't commonly seen in the stores. But as early as now I'm experiencing a slight setback when she refuses to wear unmatching colors of accessories like belt and socks. I am still in the process of teaching her that sometimes contrasting colors can be worn too. Anyways, I let her wear anything she wants inside the house. But sometimes she wears her clothes for going out, and even wears shoes rather than slippers. :)

Yes, I leave them that way, and make sure I take lots of pictures!!! I plan to use them as evidence that they didn't care how they looked when they were younger. Seriously, I do leave them alone. My 6 year old gets a little bit of a boost if she's terribly way off, but usually, I let it go. There are so many other things to fight with my kids about, I don't need to worry about their clothing. :)

I think its fun watching what they put on. I always let mine be. I found if i tried to change them, they would get upset. If they are happy, i am too. Best wishes to you

That's good, my son will be 6 on december, unfortunately he still need my assistance in almost all the things he do, if not me his father and when both of us are out he's nanny is their to dressed him up, but he did know how to wear his shorts already, and he get hard time of wearing his shirt with his own, maybe in other time he will learn to all things alone...

I began dressing myself at a young age because I did not want my mom dressing me. I was 3 or 4 when I began dressing myself. I knew how to dress myself, I knew how to match my clothes and everything, my parents did not have to teach me anything, a lot of things just came naturally to me. Even when I got my Goldie, being a mom came naturally to me. No one had to teach me how to hold her or feed her, I just did it.

When the 5 year old gets his own clothes and dresses himself, he usually gets either matching or coordinating colors. He even matches or coordinates his top and bottoms of his pajamas. The 8 year old isn't quite as good at color coordinating as his brother but, oh well. The 2 year old can't dress himself yet. We generally will let the kids go out in non-matching clothes though because there are bigger fights that we have to have with the kids. Now the fight over doing their homework is an all out war!!

what i used to do when my girls were little was put out a couple of outfits for them to choose from. they still felt older as they used to be able to pick out their outfits, but at least they matched!

Mine is now 14 and one of her nicknames is mix-match. I had the same issue with her when she was little. Still do. lol Now it's a fashion statement for her when she does that. Funny thing is, she likes to point it out when I don't match. I guess she things it's "cool" for teens to do it, but not parents. Anyway, I think it's a personality thing. When she was little I'd try to get her to match, but if she really had her heart set on it, I'd let her. It wasn't worth the battle. I figured, let kid be kids. There are more important things in life to worry about.

My sons started dressing themself's when they were about 5 of course I had to help them figure out what colors matched and which ones didn't.

I allow them to dress that way, but like you, when we go somewhere, they have to wear what I say until they can cordinate themselves..