??? Kilt Embarrassing your kids ???

[Norbo]

Have you ever not don the cloth for a worry you may embarrass your children?


Knowing how kids are when it come to school stuff I don't put my kilt on as im worried that the children with give my lad a hard time about it . as lets face it a kilt is a dress as my son often points out to me.

My son is just moving up to the new school this year and I have a meeting at the school and I wont put my kilt on as I don't want him to start of on the wrong foot and have a hard time from the other kids because his dad wares a dress !! as this is what they will be saying.

Having said this I have put it on at his swimming meetings and his Bowls and so on and his friends have seen me with it on a few times but this being the big school and all I was conches of putting it on . This is the first time I have ever given it a second thought and its a bit strange.

Have any of you for the sake of kids or any one elce not put on the kilt as you think it may bother the person you are with ?

[Spartan Tartan]

children in school can be mean. My kilt is not more important than my son. If he would be reallly upset or mercilessly teased, then why would I force the issue? I prefer to be comfortable and knowing that I am setting my son up to be rediculed is not what I conaider comfortable.

Also, it is NOT a dress. It IS a kilt.

[BCAC]

Have you ever not don the cloth for a worry you may embarrass your children?


Knowing how kids are when it come to school stuff I don't put my kilt on as im worried that the children with give my lad a hard time about it . as lets face it a kilt is a dress as my son often points out to me.

My son is just moving up to the new school this year and I have a meeting at the school and I wont put my kilt on as I don't want him to start of on the wrong foot and have a hard time from the other kids because his dad wares a dress !! as this is what they will be saying.

Having said this I have put it on at his swimming meetings and his Bowls and so on and his friends have seen me with it on a few times but this being the big school and all I was conches of putting it on . This is the first time I have ever given it a second thought and its a bit strange.

Have any of you for the sake of kids or any one elce not put on the kilt as you think it may bother the person you are with ?

By "conches" (sic) do you mean conscious because if not I don't understand. Sorry to say, Norbo, but your posts are sometimes difficult to understand with these strange words mixed in.

Of course you should take into account the fact that kids can be mean. When he has been in his new school a while maybe you could get his friends round and show them a DVD of Braveheart of some such scottish based film where the hero is kilted and, of course, wins out in the end. They may all end up wanting to become kilted themselves.

[Calgacus]

By "conches" (sic) do you mean conscious because if not I don't understand. Sorry to say, Norbo, but your posts are sometimes difficult to understand with these strange words mixed in.

I believe Norbo is dyslexic, I'm sure he posted that somewhere, sorry if I'm mistaken.
It does sometimes make his posts difficult to read, but I'm sure it's a minor difficulty compared to the difficulties dyslexia creates for him!

[Chas]

We will always embarrass our children and they will always embarrass us. I well remember my 6 year old son bounding into the house full of guests and demanding "Is the vicar farting again, Dad?"

The way forward is consistency. If you wear it while watching your son at a football match - you ALWAYS wear it at football matches. And so on. Certain events in your family's life will be kilted - every time. Children like routine and once it becomes routine they will expect it.

Also, arm your son with a retort. "My family goes back a thousand years - It's our heritage!", tends to shut other children up.

[Norbo]

Spartan Tartan
I know its not a dress but that's what the kids will say if they want to upset him. Its a skirt a mans skirt called a kilt is what I tell him, just like you get woman's coats and trousers you get mens coats and trousers. this is a mans skirt called a kilt. that way I defuse the idea that calling it a skirt is an insult or something to get upset about.

BCAC
I am Dyslexic sorry. Even with spell chequer sometimes I cant see that it looks wrong. I don't think his close friends would say anything because im a cool dad with 35 m Cycles a big Bouncy castle and I go out with water guns with kids and soak other children we see. So By definition if im in one it must be cool and every one knows it . Its the kids that don't know him or me that im thinking of . So as my son is more important then anything elce I don't put it on at his new school.

[Norbo]

Chas
That's quight good his mum is Scottish from Glasgow with Irish roots as her family name is Murphy and her dad looked like rab C Nesbit as well sounded like him top . And Apparently on my mums side we have Ancient Orkney roots . I think he will be fine as time go's on.

[BCAC]

Spartan Tartan
I know its not a dress but that's what the kids will say if they want to upset him. Its a skirt a mans skirt called a kilt is what I tell him, just like you get woman's coats and trousers you get mens coats and trousers. this is a mans skirt called a kilt. that way I defuse the idea that calling it a skirt is an insult or something to get upset about.

BCAC
I am Dyslexic sorry. Even with spell chequer sometimes I cant see that it looks wrong. I don't think his close friends would say anything because im a cool dad with 35 m Cycles a big Bouncy castle and I go out with water guns with kids and soak other children we see. So By definition if im in one it must be cool and every one knows it . Its the kids that don't know him or me that im thinking of . So as my son is more important then anything elce I don't put it on at his new school.

Ah, OK, Norbo, that must be difficult for you. Sorry to have mentioned it.

[S Mitchell]

I'll have to ask my sons how they feel about it. The older one is 25. The younger one is 13. Neither of them have expressed any concern or embarrassment ... or interest in wearing their own.

I worry they're both sometimes embarrassed but too polite to say so.

I haven't worn the kilt to my younger son's school, but I did wear it to a symphony he had to attend as part of a school assignment. It turned out half his grade was there!

During the intermission when he and his friends ran off to fidget and be boys, no one teased him, but several of his classmates asked him why I was in a kilt. He told them it's because I have Scottish ancestry and because I simply like wearing the kilt, which was, evidently, a satisfactory answer and that was that.

I'm sure it helps he attends a charter/prep school where thoughtful inquiry, along with respect and courtesy, are strongly encouraged.

[Tartan Tess]

Your son sounds young and we all know how other kids can be mean. But just wait until he is a teen and has his own "look".