January 17, 2008 | Posted At: 12:52 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: School Life
[White] Kids Too Cool For Coats
The Today show did a segment the other day about kids not wearing coats (Why are kids too cool for coats?). Indeed, kids in the video clip are walking around with coats, and say they don't have or use them.
What I wonder is whether this is happening everywhere or just in white Chicago suburbs.
I have no idea, though I have to say that none of the kids in my somewhat mixed Brooklyn neighborhood are going for the no-coat look. North Face parkas are all the rage.
However, it's nothing new. NPR did it two years ago (Why Kids Hate to Wear Coats)
6 months ago when I was living in South Carolina, I would of thought those kids were crazy. Now after moving to Anchorage, Alaska I sort of get it.
The only reason my kids wear coats is because me and my wife make them out of some sort of parental obligation. The truth... last weekend when my wife and I went out, I wore a sweater and she wore a lightweight jacket... it was around 15 degrees.
After a week of -10 to -17 temperature, right now its a positively balmy 20. Temperature is relative.
Posted by: Rory Hester | January 19, 2008 at 01:19 AM
Another sign that parents are losing the battle in favor of the kid-centered mentality that has been created.
Whether it is a "White thing?": All I can say is, I haven't seen a kid of color w/o a coat, just like I hope to never see a kid of color in pajamas at school.
Posted by: Miss Profe | March 17, 2008 at 15:27 PM