In touch with his inner chav

How old is he?

He's 4. You should have seen the mess, clothes everywhere!
He's asleep in the naff gear now. He's usually so stylish?

Did he have his jogging bottoms tucked into his socks ? oh and was he standing with his hands down the front of his pants ? (why do they have their hands down their pants, are they frightened their knobs are going to fall off our something)

? Strange things children.

The other day my daughter came down from her room sporting a red velvet party dress with a fuscia-pink t-shirt on top!?

No socks on. He's not averse to a bit of pant rummaging. Nooooooo, he's going to start hanging round shopping centres next.

It gets worse Iris!!

My 13 year old lives in horrible baggy black jeans, white skate shoes with a sort of skull/goth picture on the sides, metallica t shirts, long, long hair in myriad tiny plaits each tied up with different coloured cotton and topped by a black beanie!

You'll look back to the days of "chavity" with fondness in years to come ?

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It gets worse Iris!!

My 13 year old lives in horrible baggy black jeans, white skate shoes with a sort of skull/goth picture on the sides, metallica t shirts, long, long hair in myriad tiny plaits each tied up with different coloured cotton and topped by a black beanie!

You'll look back to the days of "chavity" with fondness in years to come ?

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My 9 yr old is heading this way - he already likes anything with skulls on, owns a skate-board and keeps moaning at me to let him grow his hair!?

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It gets worse Iris!!

My 13 year old lives in horrible baggy black jeans, white skate shoes with a sort of skull/goth picture on the sides, metallica t shirts, long, long hair in myriad tiny plaits each tied up with different coloured cotton and topped by a black beanie!

You'll look back to the days of "chavity" with fondness in years to come ?

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I'm so glad his school has a strict uniform policy, at least he'll be confined to expressing his individuality at weekends only.
I buy him nice clothes, he just siezes on the odd thing that H buys or that I buy and regret.
Give your son 10 years and he'll be a civil servant, that's what happened to my brother?

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I'm so glad his school has a strict uniform policy, at least he'll be confined to expressing his individuality at weekends only.
I buy him nice clothes, he just siezes on the odd thing that H buys or that I buy and regret.
Give your son 10 years and he'll be a civil servant, that's what happened to my brother?

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My son's school has a strict uniform policy but unfortunately they seem to overlook the hair part of it. He wouldn't be allowed the plaits etc for school but does have hair halfway down his back.

As for the "in 10 years time he'll be a civil servant" - you're probably right, I can remember my brother at age 16 with his hair died either red or black (depending on his mood of the moment), a studded dog collar round his neck and black nail varnish (days of punk) and now he is a stalwart of the Sheffield City development council or some such! That's why i don't worry too much about the way my son dresses, as long as he doesn't do anything permanent, such as a tattoo I can put up with him "expressing himself" ?

I went through a phase of wearing nothing but black, Guns & roses T-shirts, very short cut-off jeans, opaque tights and DM boots with cannibis leaf earrings!?

I am now a respectable (ish) mother of 2 and asbout to embark on a doctorate course!?

I think teenagers should be allowed to express themselves within reason, and from my experience of teenagers at youth club, the skater/rocker types tend to be less trouble and higher achieving than soem of the (for want of a better word) chavs![:I]?

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I think teenagers should be allowed to express themselves within reason, and from my experience of teenagers at youth club, the skater/rocker types tend to be less trouble and higher achieving than soem of the (for want of a better word) chavs![:I]?

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That's nice to know seeing as one of my sons is a skater and the other is the "rock/goth" one described above. There's hope for them yet!

No1 son is very much of the long hair/baggy jeans persuasion. I'm quite happy with that, tbh. Aside from anything, it makes it much cheaper as he'd sooner die than be seen in most designer brands ?

The kinds of teenagers who go in for black hair dye, gloomy music and introspective poetry do tend to be the more intelligent, nicer ones in my experience.

There again, when he was about seven, my son lived in horrid shiny tracky bottoms and wanted prison white trainers [xx(]

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I think teenagers should be allowed to express themselves within reason, and from my experience of teenagers at youth club, the skater/rocker types tend to be less trouble and higher achieving than soem of the (for want of a better word) chavs![:I]?

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That's nice to know seeing as one of my sons is a skater and the other is the "rock/goth" one described above. There's hope for them yet!

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I saw an article on the BBC website saying that Goths were actually really close to being middle class in their values. They have strong morals and are actually rather conformist.

H and I were rockers and he had goth tendencies. He is now a Chartered Surveyor, and goes off to London every day suited and booted like "the Man" he used to rebel against ? He still plays the part of a Rock and Roll drummer in his spare time at weekends. ?

My civil servant brother used to have long purple hair as a teenager and the vilest smelly dreads at university.?

Master Iris this morning appeared in too small navy blue adidas shorts and a horrid sludge green Scooby doo t-shirt. He then changed into a Forest shirt that reached his knees. <sigh>

When my daughter was about 2 she decided to dress herself one morning and came down in swimsuit, wellie boots, jumper and straw hat. We still have the photo!?

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When my daughter was about 2 she decided to dress herself one morning and came down in swimsuit, wellie boots, jumper and straw hat. We still have the photo!?

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Tres chic?