Recently I have noticed that my son likes to take his pants off the minute he comes home. Why is this? He seems to like his pants. At least he doesn’t complain about them. But still they come off almost immediately. When he was little AJ didn’t like jeans, only soft pants. Soft pants were anything that wasn’t denim. Now I am a single mom, I didn’t teach him to go pantless like this. Maybe change into some wonderfully comfortable sweatpants or yoga pants, but not completely without pants. I understood when he was little, he did it when the pants weren’t soft enough. But now?
Is this something that is genetic? I don’t know if his father did this, but it seems like a lot of males do it. According to Hollywood anyway. What makes this slightly more amusing is that AJ had pants on, went to the store, came back and took his pants off again knowing that we were leaving the house within 10 minutes. Its like a compulsion! The other side of this is how modest he is.he has to wear pants even to get the mail. PJ bottoms and boxer shorts are not okay to get the mail, he has to change into pants. Why? No one would know they were boxers. No one would care about the PJ’s.
Its not just that he takes pants off needlessly either, sometimes he changes his pants three or four times. Just because. I don’t quite get it. This is one of those mysterious teen age boy things isn’t it? Like how do they eat so much? Or why they spend so long in the shower? Its longer than a teen age girl!
Adeventures in Parenting 