Okay, thus far, my experience with my daughter has been heavenly. She’s all the great things you would want in a child. She’s very loving, independent and she does pretty much anything I tell her to without a battle. She has her streaks of stubbornness, but when compared with her brothers, she usually wins the golden child trophy. That is with the exception of one thing that she seems to keep getting more and more difficult about these days…her clothes.

At the age of not even 5 yet, I have came to the conclusion that she and I have very different tastes when it comes to clothing. Had she been born to some mothers who tend to dress their daughters in the most frilly or eye popping clothes possible, this post wouldn’t exist. However, I do not care for pink and I often would prefer plaid over floral any day. The only thing we do share a love for is flip flops, but I don’t care to send her to daycare in those every day either.

So it has become a pretty common scenario for her to wake up in the morning and fight anything I have picked out for her. If I give her a dress, she wants shorts and vice versa. If I give her the shorts, then she doesn’t like them. Were there really kids at one point that wore what their parents laid out or am I delusional here? My oldest son gives the whole big brother, “she should be glad she has clothes” spill. Not that I haven’t had a few battles in the past with him either, but nothing that ended in him pouting all the way to school. If I give into allowing her to pick out the clothes and shoes that she wants when she is five-years-old, then what am I going to do when she’s 13? Will I be the controlling parent or the push over? Is there really a happy medium in this? I’ve already used the one day you pick, then next I will routine and it doesn’t work that well either.

I know I had always heard this was one of the hugest deals when it came to having a girl. I now see that there was no exaggeration.