I love the picture of her where her hair is cut and her bangs are short and out of her eyes so you can see her beautiful eyes!

Katie is clearly such a great mom……hands on not afraid to get dirty…like when she is holding Suri while she eats her cookie….Katie you can tell,….. puts her daughter on top of her priority list and that is so nice to see when most celebs use nannies most of the time……

Keep up the good work katie and Tom you truly set an example of how parents should treat their kids!

Clary

I don’t think parents should “force” kids to wear pants if they want to wear dresses. However, I do think it’s the parents’ role to “force” children to wear coats and tights when the weather is cold. I get the impression with little (adorable) Suri that whatever she wants, she gets. That might not be such a bad thing, but a 2.5 year old hardly knows what is best for herself so I think it becomes the parents’ job to step in and say, “Keep your jacket on.”

My daughter is EXACTLY the same. She’s 5 and she’s been like this for around 2 1/2 years. Only wants to wear dresses/skirts. I have to battle with her to wear pants when it’s cold.

I personally just don’t understand the idea or concept of a child much less a 2 1/2 year old telling her parents that she “won’t” wear pants.

My daughter is 8 and this is the first time she has told me she “won’t” wear something (Tights/leggings/panty hose – not sure what everyone calls them, we personally call them tights – she doesn’t like them – says there itchy). BUT if I tell her she’s going to wear them, she wears them period end of story no if’s and’s or but’s about it.

But as my mother-in-law tells me all the time you have to pick your “no’s”. So if they don’t see anything wrong with it then that’s them and their child.

I guess I’m just the mean mommy …….. idk

Lauren- Lately they HAVE been dressing her appropritley for the weather!

“The other difference in this area is the whole ‘fanny’ thing, because that doesn’t refer to the same area in the UK as the US! Does anyone know how the words came to mean different things?”

I have no idea, but my father’s former boss discovered that difference the hard way when he jokingly told an audience that he gave his employees “a pat on the fanny” to motivate them-in Scotland. Someone had to rush the stage to whisper to him what he had just said!

The dress thing doesn’t bother me at all. That said, it’s by no means an excuse for not dressing her appropriately for the weather.

Hey there, thanks to you guys who answered my trousers/pants question. Grandma, I think you got confused about who asked it, it was me, the name of the person making the comment is posted below, not above. Thanks again for answering!

We have sort of the same issue with our 5-year old. I have finally gotten her to understand that she can’t wear dresses to school. They have asked that the kids not wear dresses because they are involved in gymnastics, dance, and other activities that are not conducive to dress-wearing.

I pick out their outfits each week and put 8 choices in the organizer in the closet. They have to wear an outfit from there 5 days a week and are allowed to dress themselves on the weekends. Most mornings, I get up and feed the girls breakfast and get them dressed and fix their hair before heading out to work. Before I leave, I wake up my husband to get them off to school. I tell him that they are dressed, fed, lunches packed, etc. My 7-year old always asks me to pick out an outfit for her (from the pre-picked outfits). I have just recently discovered that my 5-year old waits until I leave the house, and then goes and changes into what she wants to wear for the day. Just last week I went to pick her up and found her dressed in yellow capris, a green turtleneck, purple socks, and her pink crocs (in 30 degree weather). I got after my husband for letting her go out dressed inappropriately for the weather. His response was that I was the one who dressed her. I turned and looked at our daughter, she smirked, and replied, “I lied to daddy, didn’t I?”

Nina;
Re: your US/UK question about trousers vs pants… I think it comes from a shortened version of the old word pantaloons (19th century), which are, essentially trousers, and the word has been shortened to pants over the years.

Not sure Phoebe, I’ve just always called them pants