I have been really happy with my preparedness for world book day this year. I had a terrible head cold and was ill the end of last week Sinuitis headache - edging into migraine level headache and I was exhausted so I slept a lot through Thursday/Friday/Saturday was still feeling ropey Monday but I went into town and gathered the things I needed to make two costumes for WBD.
Finished off the costumes yesterday - and I was happy with the results dd1 and dd2 looked great in them. All good.
Dd1 is in a different school to dd2 she sets off earlier and went off looking ace - so far so good - pic on FB for the relatives.
DD2 got dressed up and I took a picture she asked me to put that on FB as she likes the nice comments from various Aunties and Uncles etc. We set off Then she see's some children she knows from reception/ yr 1 - we are only a few minutes from school so we were virtually there. The children ask dd what she is wearing and she tells them and I say "you know for World Book day". Mother of these children (the younger one is wearing a tutu so I thought she was dressed up too..) just looks at me and says nowt. We carry on through school side gate and I notice complete lack of costumes - I say to dd2 "are you sure it is today?" She says "yes - we were talking about it this yesterday!" - clearly I had missed the bit in the newsletter where they said they were doing World Book day - - not on world book day but a week or so later!
So my dd2 school is doing WBD next week - because that makes sense, and I have dragged poor dd2 to school dressed up on the wrong frickin day - I feel terrible and stupid about it and pissed off with the school. I imagine if I had been doing all the pick ups the last week instead of sharing them with dh I may have had that useful convo with another parent where the date would have come up. But I can't be sure of that - or obviously if I had noticed the date in the newsletter - poor dd2!
AIBU?
Massive World Book Day/ parenting fail!
bigmouthstrikesagain · 02/03/2017 09:57
Ahh I've done this before - DD1 was sent to school as Pocahontas. You'll look back and laugh in a couple of days. No one is judging you, and even if they did, so what, fuck 'em 
Our primary is doing dress up day on a completely different day too but I saw several superheroes, a princess and a footballer walking to school today 
We did get an email about it with dates - before half term
I think it's quite a common and understandable mistake to make, in our case the other local school (secondary) is dressing up today and a lot of parents have dc in both schools.
A boy in our dd's class came as a Victorian a week early for Victorian dressing up day last year, he thought it was hilarious fortunately!
Hopefully your dd is fine about it and is quite likely not the only one!
A child in my child's class turned up earlier this week in full on costume and face paint. Mum had got the wrong day. I admit to laughing to myself about it when I got home but I'm sure it will be forgotten about by the end of the week.
I've had the shame of turning up at school on inset days, and holidays too. We've all done something daft
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There are lots of downsides to living next to a primary school, but this is definitely one of the perks! I always check out of the window before leaving on the school 'run' to make sure the children going past are wearing costumes or not on days like this.
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