In my file I adopted Alesan, after a little while he unequiped his clothing and will not put any given to him on, as such I have a child in underwear running about my house.
Known bug, no fix. Revert to an earlier save before that happened.
when ever i try to give him new clothes, the game crashes(on ps3)
On PS3, I can't give him anything, even things that weigh .1 are said to be too heavy. Luckily for me, he's clothed, but I bought a bunch of stuff for him and I can't give it to him.
My Alesan wont stop folowing me around.
try looting the childs chest that he sticks his stuff in.
I think Pink Slim was referencing this but just go into his dresser take the clothes he has stored there and give them to him so far I think the clothes are returned to the dresser as soon as he goes outside (!??!?!?!?!?) so keep a few pairs in your inventory if he goes outside.
I'm having the same problem now and i don't think there is a fix for it. I didn't have this problem on other playthroughs.
am having the same problem with sofie on ps3..... cant give anything to her . It says " too heavy" even tryed making a carry wieght ring and leaving it in her dresser. Cant pickpocket kids to slip it to her & she will not take it from her dresser.
Okay, found this answer on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Alesan
"On this playthroug, i adoptes Alesan for the first time. when he showed up at Windsted Manor i tried to give him a wooden sword, and got the same error message i did when i tried to give Sofie somthing the first time. For Sofie, this issue is documented on her Wiki page, and is caused by her having over 300 flower baskets in her inventory. So i checked Alesan's inventory, and found that he was carrying 1,903 Baskets (BaseID 000ABD30)
If you run into this problem in your game and you're on PC, open the console, click on Alesan, and enter the command drop 000ABD30 2000. He'll drop the baskets and then you can give him gifts as normal"
This worked for me!!