Mother Breaks The Internet When She Lets Her 2-Year-Old Son Wear A Dress To Her Wedding

Now, we just go with the flow. He will often turn up to day care in a dress or a pink Minnie Mouse shirt or whatever else he fancies. As long as it’s sun-safe, I’m not going to fight him on it. There is absolutely no point in sweating the small stuff. He may or may not grow out of it. I will let him decide. Either way, I’m OK with it.

I am also hoping by the time he is an adult, then we won’t still be having this conversation.

I want my children to be able to grow up confident in their self-expression, not taking on other opinions as their own, and to be free to be who they want to be. We have a generation of adults terrified of being themselves from fear of not being accepted.

That starts with us as parents, to teach our children that the magic of the world comes in the form of different people, different ways of thinking and being. If we all taught our children this, then maybe, just maybe, there would be less bullying, less hate, less trolling and we would live in a happier world?!

As a parent, it’s important to give your children autonomy over certain things, like what they want to wear.

Through that, we are fostering independence and letting them make choices allows them to express themselves. Through self-expression, they can be who they truly are. The thought of my children not letting the world see their true light that they bring to the world saddens me.

I want my children to grow up confident and resilient, knowing that they can achieve great things when they are themselves.