Mom calls 19-year-old daughter 'selfish' for not wanting to wear a matching dress on Mother's Day: 'I do not like wearing dresses. They make me uncomfortable.'

They're not even going anywhere fancy for Mother's Day. She wants the whole family to wear matching dresses for no reason.

There are times in a parent's life when they desperately need to tell their kids exactly what to wear. If your 4-year-old son wants to wear shorts when it's below freezing outside, you're going to have to nip it in the bud, no matter how much he cries about it. If your daughter plans to wear a white dress to her friend's bridal shower, it's of the utmost importance that you tell her exactly why that is such a horrible idea. There's a chance she put it on without thinking about how gauche it is!

As your child ages, there are fewer and fewer times that you can control what they wear, and that's a good thing! Adult children shouldn't have to dress exactly as their parents want them to. It's understandable to want your kid to wear a nice outfit for a formal event, but insisting that they have to wear a specific dress "because I said so" is kind of ludicrous.

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If your kid is an adult, it's probably time to ditch matching mother-daughter dresses. It looks immature and strange for entire families to match each other when they are all adults. If both mother and daughter want to match, more power to them, but the mother in this story is pressuring her daughter to wear a dress she hates for Mother's Day. They're not even going out to do something fancy or take professional pictures, and she wants her to buy a new dress so the whole family can match. The daughter doesn't even like wearing dresses, and her mother clearly has control issues regarding her daughter's hair and style.
Am I wrong for telling my mom that I don’t want to wear a dress for Mother’s Day?

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