Hat and Mitt Season

 

My son Noah does not want to wear a hat or mitts.  I am a frustrated Mother.  Doesn’t he know I have a label for all of his hat’s and mitt’s.  My daughter is all wrapped up – new coat, hat, mitts, neck warmer, boots.  Noah will barely get his coat on, it is tough most days just to get his shirt and pants on in the morning.

He has developed a funny aversion to any cuffs on shirts, he refuses to wear anything but socks with plastic grippers on them.  He doesn’t like tight underwear and hats and mitts forget it.  He simply says, “No Thanks!”

With the upcoming change of seasons, and the colder weather and dare I say snow arriving on our doorsteps I hope Noah will follow in “Big Sis’s footsteps” and bundle up.  No I don’t think he will, a mother can only pull the apron strings back and say a few little prayers for the little man.

Talking with my girlfriend the other day, she laughed and shared a story about her daughter not wanting to wear her boots in the car, so finally out of frustration her mother put her in the snow with her bare feet.  Guess what she never took her boots off again.

I have recently purchased numerous new hats for Noah and get really excited he might walk out the door with one on, but he always seems to stop in his tracks just before he gets out the door and whips it into the air, and says “No Thanks!”

Like any other Mother I will keep packing those hats and mitts in his school bag, and hope that when he is shivering and turning into an icicle he will remember “Oh yeah … I think I will wear my hat and mitts today?”

 

 

 

 

Talk soon ~

 

Nancy