It's Starting

Wednesday is Chapel Day at Carlie's school, and the girls are required to "dress up" a bit. Carlie broke out her tall boots this Sunday for church, so I just assumed she would wear them for Chapel today. She was acting funny when I told her to put on her boots, and when I finally questioned her behavior, her response was, "what if they make fun of my boots?" My first response was, "So what, tell them they don't know fashion. Mommy things you look adorable." But then I had flashback of two pairs of corduroy pants...one pair light purple, one brown pair. I despised those corduroy pants and mom made me wear them at least once a week. How I cried, and how I was made fun of for those pants. So I made a deal with her...wear the boots, bring a pair of shoes in your back pack and if you get made fun of you can change at school. It's just shoes, right? Is the fashion peer pressure starting already? At Kindergarten? Really? And in my mind I am telling myself....just because you give into this fashion peer pressure (mommy), you don't have to give into ALL fashion peer pressure (mommy), or other peer pressure for that matter. If one mommy jumps off the bridge, doesn't make it right for this mommy.....right? Just keeping telling myself that....