Dressing by the rules of a 4 Year Old

Not me.  Katie Holmes.  I saw one of those gossip headlines yesterday that Suri Cruise tells her mom what to wear and of course I had to follow it.  If the 4 year old in my life told me what to wear, I'd be dressed in super-hero undies and a suit of armor.  No thanks.

I don't believe Katie Holmes.  I mean, seriously, does this woman look like a 4 year-old dressed her?  [image error]But according to the rags, apparently, Suri is such a fashionista at the age of four that she advises her mom what to wear.  For herself, she prefers dresses to pants, and she has a Ferragamo purse.  You may recall that Suri also started the fashion rage of little girls wearing high heels.  [image error][image error]

Now, in Suri's defense, high heels for little girls were around when I was a kid, so that's not really new.  The difference is, we used them as dress up, not every day street wear.  Oh, and she has an iPad!  Personally speaking, I don't like to give expensive tech gadgets to the four year-olds around here, because they tend to throw stuff down the stairs to see what will happen, or press lots of buttons at once, or leave it on the floor and let Moose have a go at it.

I am really fascinated by the lives of the rich and famous and their four year olds.  There is Shiloh Pitt, who dresses like a boy.  Her mother says she insists.  [image error]

Okay, this week we had a five year old, a four year old, and a three year old in the house.  Not one of them insisted on wearing anything in particular.  They all put on whatever was in front of them and didn't care if it matched, or where it came from, or if it was boy or girl clothes.  No, I am not suggesting that Shiloh wear anything else, or making any judgments about her here–the kid is four.  But I am suggesting that maybe, because she is four, she doesn't insist so much as point to what colors she likes.  Maybe she would have pointed to the clown suit in the room had it been there.  That would be fun, too, wouldn't it, Shiloh?

And giving iPads to four year-olds:  They make tech gadgets for kids that are a little bit more rugged.  What's wrong with the V-tech version?   Maybe if I had gobs of money, I wouldn't care, but I think somewhere in there I would still think, is that really necessary at the age of four or three years?

Imagine your 4 year-old self dressing your mother.  What would she have been wearing?  Mine would have been wearing a Betty Rubble dress.  And would you give a four year old an iPad, even if money were no object?