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Your child's fashion sense is...unique. What can you do?

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Originally published in Today's Parent September 2010

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The alarm clock rings and your little one insists on wearing his stained, too-small Spiderman shirt — for the fourth day in a row. While making a fashion faux pas isn’t life-threatening, you don’t want your kid to be teased. Nor do you want to be labelled a clueless parent.

“Consider your kids’ self-esteem before your own,” says Judy Arnall, a Calgary-based parenting speaker and the author of Discipline Without Distress. “It’s not a reflection of your parenting. They’re exercising their individual choice and that’s good.”

Temperament affects a child’s tendency to argue about outfits. Easygoing types will wear whatever you hand them. More intense kids are often more resistant to change and sensitive to textures. Here are some field-tested tips for dealing with a junior fashionista.

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