Princess Costume..EVERYDAY !! Come on..

[Tricia's mom]

DD 2 1/2 insists on wearing her little mermaid costume ...everyday...everyday! Even to sleep in. If its not Ariel its someother princess costume from the bin. At times this seems to be the cutest thing ever...but its getting old. Anyone else have this similar problem ?? How long til this gets out of her system..DH and I are done with sitting next to DD and telling her what our name is and if we wanted to take a picture of her ??

 

[BiancaBernard&Penny]

DH and I are done with sitting next to DD and telling her what our name is and if we wanted to take a picture of her ??

I've heard of dress up obsessions but this is a new detail to me. Very smart little girl. I see where it can get old though. No real ideas here. My daughter only wears hers occasionally. Would she like princess themed tees or boutique dresses? What about non-princess party dresses? At least there would be variety and they wouldn't be costumes? I used to be a private nurse for a girl who insisted on dresses only, often party dresses. Somehow the party dress seemed more appropriate than a Cinderella dress. Our bigger argument was shoes. I insisted on rubber soles for safety- no party shoes or dress up shoes, even at home. She didn't like that rule! At least there was no role playing once she was dressed!

 

[MickeyHereWeCome!]

Although not the same situation, my ds4 spent months after our last trip pretending to be parade characters. He'd come into the room with his tongue hanging out to be the Big Bad Wolf. We'd have to stop and give him a hug or a high five. Then, he'd go out and come back with a hook hand to be Captain Hook...etc. This would go on most of the day. For a while, he would tell us who he was, and then he caught on that most of the characters didn't speak, so we would have to spend time guessing who he was if it wasn't obvious.

It really was cute, but day in and day out, it got old.

Luckily, he hasn't done that for a few months. I kind of miss it now

So, I don't have any suggestions for breaking the cycle, but I wanted you to know you aren't alone.

 

[momxx5]

Maybe not what you want to hear.....


Life is way too short, if a Princess dress is what she wants to wear, why not??? Asking her name and taking pictures.....she thinks she's at WDW and having her pic taken with all the guests.

Maybe giving her a few stuff animals to "play Disney Princess" with, letting them be the guests, etc. might let off some time for you & DH.\

I have two DDs and have been through the wear Princess dresses phases. Golly, I have 3 DSs and they often wore their superhero outfits (some actually being pajamas) to the store, etc.

Unless you are going somewhere that requires proper dress or where a Princess dress is not appropriate I'd let her be. Yes it is a phase, but there are worse phases to go through.

Maybe you can slowly wean her off the dress-up.....like have a daily calendar that shows hour by hour. Mark off the times that she can be dressed up and then show the other hours that she should wear other clothes.

Please, take some time to enjoy these moments & take pictures when you can. These times go so fast.

 

[Daddy_of_Princesses]

I went through it with my now 7 year oldd dd. She wanted to wear her Cinderella dress everyday. It finally started getting holes in it, and we had to buy her a new one. My 3 year old does the same thing, although right now she is into wearing her thick black stockings every day, so we need to wash them every night. It's something almost all toddlers do, and while it can get annoying after a while, it is only a phase, and she will grow out of it eventually.

 

[DCbride]

Sounds like she had a great time last time you were there! Did she wear her costume in the park? Who doesn't want it to be Disney World all the time?

Coming from someone who threw a blanket over her head last night at least 30 times so DD 2 1/2 could say "little pig little pig let me in" and then proceed to "blow off" the blanket....it's a phase, she will be out of it and on to the next slightly annoying one soon. Two is a tough age but once it ends so does lots of snuggle time that 2 year olds enjoy so much.

 

[Jenvenza]

Maybe not what you want to hear.....


Life is way too short, if a Princess dress is what she wants to wear, why not??? Asking her name and taking pictures.....she thinks she's at WDW and having her pic taken with all the guests.

Maybe giving her a few stuff animals to "play Disney Princess" with, letting them be the guests, etc. might let off some time for you & DH.\

I have two DDs and have been through the wear Princess dresses phases. Golly, I have 3 DSs and they often wore their superhero outfits (some actually being pajamas) to the store, etc.

Unless you are going somewhere that requires proper dress or where a Princess dress is not appropriate I'd let her be. Yes it is a phase, but there are worse phases to go through.

Maybe you can slowly wean her off the dress-up.....like have a daily calendar that shows hour by hour. Mark off the times that she can be dressed up and then show the other hours that she should wear other clothes.

Please, take some time to enjoy these moments & take pictures when you can. These times go so fast.

I agree with you 100%. We have a 2 1/2 year old daughter who loves to wear her princess dresses. I have a Snow White dress for Halloween and she makes ME wear it and she wants to sit on my lap and give "Snow White" hugs and kisses and have our picture taken. She even addresses me as Snow White when I wear it. Life is too short and those are precious moments for me. Why would I want it to end?

OP - I say enjoy it. It wont always be like this and I bet one day you will be looking back wishing for those moments again.

 

[snoopy5386]

My DD is 3.5 and wears her princess dresses (usually many different ones) almost every day. We also must then address her as said princess. She wears them everywhere - at home, the store, preschool, etc. I love it and think it is cute. After all, how often can you get away with wearing a princess dress?

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

My DS, now 10, went through a phase like that. He would wear a cape which was actually a bandana tied around his neck EVERY DAY. It got to where I would just lay it out with his clothes the night before. He had several, he was obsessed with batman, but made up his own character, he was "Strongman". He was hospitalized for a long time with leukemia and wore it every day there as well.

I did draw the line with sleeping in it, I was afraid it would choke him so I made a "no sleeping in capes" rule.

Our Disney trip is actually what broke him of it, for some reason he just didn't want to wear his capes to the parks (which I was a little sad about because I had even bought him a Mickey Mouse one) and after we got home he hardly wore them anymore.

 

[ktlm]

Ah yes, I remember that phase well. DD has always been extremely stong willed, stubborn, independent and opinionated. DD became obsessed with Cinderella and fell in love with her Cinderella dress when she was one. She wore it every single day- FOR ALMOST A FULL YEAR- until it was ragged, torn, stained, and she could no longer fit in it. Our rule was she could only wear it in the house (or playing outside), not if we were going anywhere. Anytime we were home, and she wasn't in pajamas, she was in that dress. It was cute at first, but I got so sick of it! When it started to wear out, I tried to replace it with a new Cinderella dress. She wasn't having that at all. The Disney Store was no longer selling the exact style she had (and I couldn't find one on Ebay), and she completely rejected the non-identical dress. I tried other Princess dresses for some variety during the year, but no way- it had to be Cinderella and it had to be that specific dress. ( We never had to do meet and greets because she had not had her 1st visit to WDW yet at that time.) The phase will pass eventually.

 

[adoptionmomma4]

My DS at the same age wore a Lion costume from The Baby Gap everyday for over a year. The cute part it he called it his "puppy suit". He only responded to being called puppy and loved to be petted and to give puppy kisses. When someone would say "what a cute lion" or something of the like he would reply "I'm a puppy!" and bark. When the puppy suit no longer fit he traded it in for various costumes and eventually a pair of green frog rain boots. He wore them everyday. In the summer with shorts and in the winter with pants. Didn’t matter what the occasion my boy was wearing rain boots.

He is almost 9 now and would not wear those boots if I asked him too. I miss those days. I keep his boots in the top of his closet and sometimes get them down and look at them. One day I will give them to my grandson and hope he wants to wear them everyday too.

This time will pass all to quickly. Even though it seems old now, you will miss it. I miss it so much and would give anything for him to be 2 again wearing his puppy suit with green frog boots and giving me puppy kisses.

 

[turkeymama]

Maybe not what you want to hear.....


Life is way too short, if a Princess dress is what she wants to wear, why not??? Asking her name and taking pictures.....she thinks she's at WDW and having her pic taken with all the guests.

Maybe giving her a few stuff animals to "play Disney Princess" with, letting them be the guests, etc. might let off some time for you & DH.\

I have two DDs and have been through the wear Princess dresses phases. Golly, I have 3 DSs and they often wore their superhero outfits (some actually being pajamas) to the store, etc.

Unless you are going somewhere that requires proper dress or where a Princess dress is not appropriate I'd let her be. Yes it is a phase, but there are worse phases to go through.

Maybe you can slowly wean her off the dress-up.....like have a daily calendar that shows hour by hour. Mark off the times that she can be dressed up and then show the other hours that she should wear other clothes.

Please, take some time to enjoy these moments & take pictures when you can. These times go so fast.

Okay, this is as far as I've gotten with responses, but I agree with this post. My son went through this phase and he was Batman. He wore the full costume everywhere for a few months. I want to say it started around 2 1/2 and lasted for about 6 months at the most. DS is 5 now and every now and then he wants to wear the mask OR the cape when we go somewhere. Pick your battles.

 

[momofrrr]

My DD who is now 13 was a preschool speech student at our elementary school. I took her twice a week for 1/2 hour. At first I made her change from her "dress up" to something more appropriate and soon realized that it really did not matter whether she thought she was Snow White or Cinderella or Dorothy but that she got out of the class what she was supposed to. The teachers still talke about her coming to speech all dressed up and how it made their day. The point I am trying to make is that you should pick your battles, she will out grow it. My daughter is now a beautiful ballerina and still plays dress up in a way. Enjoy it while you can.

 

[Kat77]

DS9 was Harry Potter for quite some time around age 4. Wore black glasses and carried a wand everywhere! He even insisted we call him Harry. It was frustrating back then... but now it is an adorable memory. It will be over way too soon Try to enjoy it while you can.

 

[holden]

Our DD7 did this when she was about 3. Every single day. It lasted about 6mos. I didn't like the idea of wearing the costumes to bed, so we bought lots of princess pjs.

 

[puffkin]

When the puppy suit no longer fit he traded it in for various costumes and eventually a pair of green frog rain boots. He wore them everyday. In the summer with shorts and in the winter with pants. Didn’t matter what the occasion my boy was wearing rain boots.

DS3 has green frog rain boots. He wore them everyday for about a month, then moved on. He wore his snow boots almost everyday last winter, funny thing is we never really got any snow Right now he has a Miami Dolphins football outfit (complete with pads and helmet) that he puts on as soon as he gets home from school. The problem is, he thinks he is a football player and will tackle you at the most unexpected times He has been in this faze since he got the outfit for his birthday in March. And yes, the green frog boots overlapped with the Football outfit faze, so he looked pretty interesting at times

 

[adoptionmomma4]

DS3 has green frog rain boots. He wore them everyday for about a month, then moved on. He wore his snow boots almost everyday last winter, funny thing is we never really got any snow Right now he has a Miami Dolphins football outfit (complete with pads and helmet) that he puts on as soon as he gets home from school. The problem is, he thinks he is a football player and will tackle you at the most unexpected times He has been in this faze since he got the outfit for his birthday in March. And yes, the green frog boots overlapped with the Football outfit faze, so he looked pretty interesting at times

Awww. That is so adorable. I love it! I miss the old green frog boots. Why do they have to grow up so fast?

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

DS3 has green frog rain boots. He wore them everyday for about a month, then moved on. He wore his snow boots almost everyday last winter, funny thing is we never really got any snow Right now he has a Miami Dolphins football outfit (complete with pads and helmet) that he puts on as soon as he gets home from school. The problem is, he thinks he is a football player and will tackle you at the most unexpected times He has been in this faze since he got the outfit for his birthday in March. And yes, the green frog boots overlapped with the Football outfit faze, so he looked pretty interesting at times

My DS's best friend wore her green frog boots every day, too, until she outgrew them. Her Mom turned them into a planter and helped her DD put flowers in them.

 

[AKADrea]

not a day goes by that my DD doesn't have on one dress up outfit for another - her Christmas wish was to get more Princess costumes - Mulan and Pocahontas to be exact I let her do it - she's only a child once and it helps her imagination

 

[MSSANDRA]

This is so a "Pick your Battle" deal. As long as it is clean, safe, and weather ok, let her choose. I wish I had let go of more control with DS. With DGS, those things matter so little. I choose for chuch and have a few guildlines for preschool but other than that those PJ's that he loves and that football shirt he loves is pretty much ok!!!