 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: My son is 2½ and loves dresses. Dresses on movie characters, dresses on toys, talking about who in his class wears dresses. He will wear my shirts and pretend it's a dress. My husband and I aren't really concerned about it, we figure we should let him pretend what he wants and play dress up the way he wants. And he's right, dresses are pretty. Although we've talked about it, we haven't bought him a real dress-up dress to play in. Of course, family members have questioned the wisdom of "letting him pretend he's a girl," which we either ignore or shut down. But I do wonder about whether we're supposed to be doing something other than what we're doing. To complicate things, he's going to have a baby sister soon, who I'm sure will wear a dress or two. And he's noticed that some people wear dresses and some don't. We love him the same no matter what he wears, now and always, and my biggest concern is that he knows that. Is there anything else we should be doing? Should we just get the poor kid a real dress? — Wondering | 
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