I am newly kilted this year and have worn my kilt only a handful of times at kilt nights and one meeting. The reasons I don't wear it more often is; it is below freezing here, the wife is not overly impressed with my kilting and my children.
I have two kids, a boy aged 9 & a girl aged 6. My son seems fine with the kilt and calls it a kilt but he won't wear one himself which is fine. Let his mother and him wears the pants in the family. My daughter revels in calling it a skirt, like her mother.
My question is this; have you known or have your school-aged children ever experienced problems from school "chums" from you wearing a kilt? We know how kids can be so mean to other kids. I've experienced this when I emigrated from England at the age of ten and was the funny looking and talking kid with Prince Charles ears. And again when I was 18 and lost a finger tip. Back in my day stuff like this was settled after school without adult supervision but in my children's school fighting is an automatic suspension/expulsion. Bullies we know are relentless in seeking out something to make fun of and are so unwilling to let it drop Any time soon.
I have not yet had any problems but I am sure that there will be some. The only instance we've met with was my daughter's friend and our neighbour saw me in my kilt and said to my little girl "your daddy's wearing a skirt" to which my daughter, bless her heart, responded matter of factly "it's a kilt". Nothing further was heard from that but I fear, that next time one of my kid's school mates sees me or hears about me wearing a kilt the teasing will start. It most certainly is not fair that our kids go through this a some point in their school career but do we really have the right risk having our children go through this?