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Originally Posted by UKking
For those of you who said you'd let him, how far would that extend? Just in the house, out to run errands, to school?
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I'm very thankful that, from a very early age, I learned not to give a damn what other people thought of me on a superficial level. Not sure why it happened, but I have always felt like I didn't fit in - in almost all situations, from my earliest memories - and after a period of intense self-consciousness and shyness, it evolved into a freedom from restrictions that I've always enjoyed. It's such an unnecessary and cowardly fear we have -
what will people think??!! And it's wholly different from wanting to attract attention - it's not caring if you do or not. That is the most significant factor of this hypothesis in my own estimation: what is the child saying about his self?
The only restriction I have ever put on the clothing my own children wear is that they not be too sexually provocative at an inappropriate age. Otherwise, they are free to express themselves however they want, whenever they want.