Kids are weird.
That’s the consensus among parents who have been asked by one concerned guardian who is worried about their daughter’s odd habit.
“My four year old will not put on her own underwear and it is becoming a huge issue,” Vai_Kisaiya told parents on Reddit on Wednesday.
The parent says their daughter is “very stubborn and headstrong”.
“For whatever reason, she cannot or will not put on her own underwear.”
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The kindergartner struggles with putting on her own underwear – especially when they are inside-out and will often end up wearing them backwards – or not at all.
“I’ve shown her multiple times different ways how to turn her underwear right side out. I don’t know how else to teach it to her,” Vai_Kisaiya wrote.
“She’ll sit on the floor of the bathroom and half-assedly move her undies around for ages until I either get frustrated and send her to timeout, which solves nothing, or I do it for her, which just pushes the problem back for another day.”
The parent asked for help figuring out a solution to the issue which had “become a point of contention”.
“This is EVERY time she gets dressed so it’s multiple times a day that we are having this fight and it is beginning to affect our relationship.
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Why does it even matter? By punishing her for it you will make it a much bigger problem. She is after all only 4.
As long as they're clean and on, who's going to know if they're inside out or back to front? I wonder if it's maybe a little bit of (possibly subconscious) rebellion from the daughter - a way of exerting control over something in her life. Maybe once mum stops making such a big deal about it, she'll get them on the 'right' way. But, you know, on is on, pick your battles!