I’m with your husband here, just pick one for heavens sake! My hubby is like you however and sometimes he spends so long researching and deciding,me end up with nothing because he can’t decide!

I am a horrible decision maker it annoys my hubby soooo much.

also with little children, i understand that you want to encourage them to think for themselves, so i will pass on this tip! you pick two or three outfits and let them have a choice from what you provide. anything more than this, requires the child to make a long and careful assessment and a lot of thought, just to be told “i don’t know/can’t decide”

this way, you will save time and have compramised and made this process easier for your child

Have you noticed that if time is running out to be at your desitnation on time, it is when your child takes longest to choose what she will wear? Why do parents give their children choices at so young an age. We were told what to wear at that young an age, simple no arguments and delays. At school we went in uniform and changed into old clothes when we got home. We were trained to wear whatever was on the top of the stacks. We didn’t have a mountain of clothes to choose from anyway. Our washing was done every weekend and hung out on the clothes lines, part of which was undercover.

My indecisiveness has caused me so much grief in my life and I’m in the process of trying to deal with it and make my life easier and hopefully better. It can be so deeply ingrained in your being that you don’t even know it’s a part of you and we need to learn to be kinder to ourselves I think. Baby steps

this was interesting. i think that if we want our children to be patient then we should demonstrate it

Interesting article and a good read. Thanks for sharing!

I sometimes find it hard to make decisions especially big one always seem to make the wrong choice but have learnt threw my mistakes

At that age I wasn’t given a choice what I would wear. I was simply dressed or helped to dress myself depending on what I was wearing. I know one girl who was given 2 choices at that age but always wanted something different – usually not suitable – often choosing clothes not suitable for the weather. There was tantrums sometimes because of it.
That is another good reason for school uniforms – girls especially can’t tease others about they are wearing that way. Not all parents can possibly afford the latest fashion expensive clothes (and several outfits – not just enough for a couple of weeks) for them to wear to school every day. Yes, that was happening when I was at Primary School. In all High Schools uniforms are compulsory and would be much cheaper it everything didn’t have to have the school emblem on them. I really don’t think it is necessary on school sports shorts. Jumpers, blazers and windcheaters I can understand but not shorts and long pants for sports. The sports shirts are labelled. Surely that is enough. Shorts with the school logo as almost double the price of plain shorts the same colour and type of material bought in discount department stores……I think in some decisions some children are let make choices at too young an age.
Would you ask your 4 year old what he / she wanted for the tea that night – every night, not just for a special treat or occasion?

This is a good article with a touch of humour!

Ok Mum please make this easier for yourself. It’s a reward and you set up the task so you give out the reward sticker. No Choice by the child. They need to learn to accept the reward/prize with grace. When it comes to picking an outfit put two on the bed and leave the room. What ever they come out in is great. If it ends in tears all the time just put the clothes out at night on the bottom of their beds and that’s it! Don’t stress the small stuff!

I have some trouble making decisions but i think we all do, right? lol

I think I just make a decision and stick to it. My Canvas Prints

I tend to just go with my gut for the most part, my husband is the analyst/over thinker!

I am good, I just choose and live with it

I’ve no trouble making decisions although will step back when I realise that I’m being used as the prop in other’s decision-making.

I try to let my kids make a lot of their own decisions – but oh, the pain of waiting for it to HAPPEN sometimes!

thankfully I just make a decision and stick to it

Choices are shocking, I can relate to your children every time I hit the supermarket.

I agree too many choices makes things harder.