<p>As a quick aside with regard to this comment before y’all get back to the real topic at hand (Go 'Stros!), my mom used to have the exact same complaint about my younger brother and his shopping habits until I got my driver’s license. Then, I laid down ultimatums and said that if he wanted to hang out with cool older sister, he’d have to go shopping with her so he had some half-decent clothes to wear… Something aside from worn-out school t-shirts and Umbros.</p>
<p>I ended up turning him into a trendy metrosexual who actually cares about how his jeans fit, and wears button-down shirts that have daring colors like hot pink and chartreuse in them.</p>
<p>Two morals to the story, depending upon your point of view: 1) If he has a sister then try getting her to strong-arm him into real clothes, or 2) Be careful what you wish for because you might end up with a son who has to browse Express Men every time he goes mall-prowling.</p>
<p>I bought S some navy plaid bedding in h.s. but when he went away to college he took his Disney comforter! He thought it would be a conversation piece that made a humorous but not too creepy statement.</p>
<p>The thing I don’t get about this thread – I think there are plenty of grown-up men who still like their Red Sox stuff. Why does anyone assume he’s EVER going to grow out of it?</p>
<p>Anyway, to add to the chorus: My 20 year-old’s favorite sheets are a Tintin set purchased (at his insistence) when he was 8 and a set from when he was 12 with elaborate faux-Chinese dragons. Every once in a while, he will build something with Legos. I don’t know if I would stay with Thomas the Tank Engine or Barney, but short of that I wouldn’t worry about a boy growing out of anything much.</p>
<p>Our 16 y/o decided to purge his room of all ‘childish things’ a few years ago (way too soon, IMO). He kept only the sports trophies and things he thought that teenagers and grown men should have-- sports photos, dvd’s, a small stereo, etc. I secretly saved some of his old stuff and set it aside. Someday, when the perspective of age has lightened him up, I think he’ll get a kick out of it.</p>
<p>He is also a NY Red Sox fan, and has their team picture and a few other knick-knacks here and there. He definitely likes his preppy-looking Nautica/Tommy Hilfiger-esque, navy plaid comforter, though. It matches everything, AND hides all the sheltie fur…</p>
<p>What a fun thread to read! As a mother of 2 girls (nearly 18 and 20), I’m amused reading and hearing about boys. (Although our mantra with our daughters for the past 6 or so years has been, “Boys are icky. They stink.” p.s. it hasn’t worked). After D2 leaves for college this fall, H is planning to reclaim the tiny bedroom upstairs that was converted into a dance studio (complete with ballet barre and vivid purple walls)…it’s going to be his office, so far I haven’t heard whether he’s planning to keep the barre, mirrors, or paint…</p>
<p>justamom…the tweety watch made me laugh…my mom was hospitalized in January…her 96-year-old roommate was a huge Tweety fan…pj’s, socks, balloons, pillows, etc.! Maybe your daughter will come back around (one of these decades)!!!</p>
<p>I love these threads. It’s so wonderful to hear about others’ lives and experiences. I especially love the stories that bring your boys to life!</p>
<p>We had some success getting S to pick bedding out of a catalog. He wouldn’t waste time going to a store, but when the catalog was waved under his nose, he said, ‘that color’s okay’. We took that as a yes…</p>
<p>There’s also a site called [Wallbangers</a> | Home Page](<a href=“http://www.wallbangers.com%5DWallbangers”>http://www.wallbangers.com) where you can have a ‘fathead’ style graphic made of your own kid.</p>
<p>When my granddaughter was born one of my sons pulled out from somewhere…his crib blanket and matching stuffed clown. I had totally forgotten about them. This is the son who still had his childhood bedding in his apartment.</p>
<p>If we wouldn’t have changed it when he was 11, Son would still have his Noah’s Ark wallpaper. He still has the banners of the Hogwarts houses on his wall; he’s added Nightmare Before Christmas Posters through the years. There is still a small trunk full of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in his room. I’m pretty sure his quilt (bought in 1992) is threadbare, but I’m not sure since I never see the bed made.</p>
<p>This thread is a testament to the argument of how nature beats nurture. :)</p>
<p>DS’s room is a disaster, and I can’t imagine him ever shopping for sheets/curtains/anything with me. What really makes his room special – amid all the sports paraphernalia is this hideous red velvet painting with a plastic-y Spanish galleon on it. I’m talking about 3x5 feet this monstrosity is. I had persuaded my parents to dump it from their home years ago, but ds insisted he wanted it. Ugly beyond belief.</p>
<p>Oh, and I would love someone to send their dd here to bully him into gaining a fashion sense.</p>
<p>I was telling a group of friends (mostly mothers of boys) about this thread this morning and my boss told us that last fall she sent her husband (a retired classics professor) out to buy some “plain, but serviceable” bedding for their lake cabin. He came back with Red Sox sheets and comforters and told her it was the best looking stuff he could find. Of course this is a man who used to wear his Sox cap in the graduation processional. So go for it.</p>
<p>When do you want me to send her over? She’s 16, is quite cute and has lots of practice being fashion bully to both her older brother and younger sister.</p>
<p>We always thought we were dressing Son nicely, but then we got his 4th grade class picture and noticed that he was the only child with his shirt tucked in. (As an Aspie, he would even tuck in his *sweatshirts * if we didn’t stop him!) So after that, we took little sister on his clothes shopping trips. She tries to keep Big Brother at a not embarrassing level - she says he can’t pull off “trendy”, however.</p>
<p>Haha…I can’t offer my D’s services… I posted last spring about how H and I went shopping for our then-16-yr-old-D’s prom dress. Then a couple of days later, I bought her shoes to go with it. She HATES clothes shopping (well, most any kind of shopping)!!! She LOVED our choices,was massively relieved that she didn’t have to go dress or shoe shopping, and she looked awesome! I assured her that I KNEW she was the only girl there whose mom and dad bought their prom dress for her!!!</p>