To think staying in your pyjamas on stay at home days is minging?

Totally this.

Do what you feel like you need/want on the day. Some days call for outside. Some days call for pjs.

What strikes me on these threads ( apart from the bizarre level of reaction of stirs up) is the people who seem to shun variety in the way they approach life.

So if someone says “ I like a day in my pjs” someone else comes roaring on and says “ omg I HAVE to get out of the house! Totally don’t understand people who stay home.”

Except people don’t stay home. People go out and about most of the week. However surely , with variety being the spice of life etc, it’s sometimes nice to be up early on a weekend and pacing the streets/ park ahead of the rest of humanity and other times it’s nice to stay cosy by a fire with a pot of something lovely cooking in the kitchen. I don’t have one lifestyle, I mix it up a bit. And I think it’s only fair to try this with dc because they might like one more than the other.

It’s so nice to be called a bad, lazy parent first thing in the morning. Thanks for that.
My children are 4 and 18mos, so only have access to the garden if I’ve checked that the weather is appropriate. No rain or particularly cold weather. They will put on their crocs or socks with welly boots to go outside, and I’ll give them a jacket if they ask for one (they rarely do). They’re mostly playing with their water things, bubbles or mud kitchen. I don’t see the harm in them running around, fully clothed and comfortable, in their own contained garden, wearing their PJs that will be taken off when they come back in covered in mud. They are washed and changed as soon as they come in, then fully bathed and clean PJs for bed.
I can’t fathom how, one day a week, allowing my children to be children, is a bad thing.

You aren't a horsey person til you've gone to the yard at 5am in your PJs and wellies 🤣

Occasionally it's fine. It's a lazy treat with an oldie and all day telly when you're just tired out. Just change your PJ's before you go back to bed 🤷‍♀️

My kids PJs are no colder than their daytime clothes. Daytime when younger and garden playing might be leggings and T-shirt. Or joggers and T-shirt. PJs are bottoms and T-shirt type top. So pretty much the same. Youngest would likely pop her crocs on to play out but she would wear them anyway to go out. Wouldn’t go out barefoot. They’re too old now for playing in the garden.

You judge people for not dressing when staying indoors but you don't wash mud stains off your children's clothes? OK then. 🙄

Would you go out with stains on your clothes?

when my mother got her hips done she was in a secondment hospital for her recovery they made her get dressed every day as part of her recovery. also on her last week you had to cook and serve meals etc all to prepare you for being able to live your lives at a home by yourself.

I do it, it's great! I do change my drawers though.

I maybe spend one day a week in the house not getting dressed. I do get washed though. I feel like I need that day as a busy mum of two children still in nappies (and yes, when I stay in my pyjamas they do to).

My friends all do it though my parents never did. In fact my dad always called it slovenly. He even dresses if he stays in hospital, he was confused as a doctor rather than a patient before!

Me? If it makes me slovenly I don't care, the PJ days will remain!

You literally just said you wouldn't bathe them after playing outside, but now you're saying every night?

My little one throws herself into everything. So she ends up covered in stuff. Which can sometimes mean a couple of outfit changes a day, depending on what we're doing (going out after she's flung herself round the garden, for example). So I'm not going to get hung up on whether it's her clothes or her PJ's getting mucky, because they're going in the wash anyway. If she gets up and wants to go straight in the garden to check on her plants/pick fruit or veg and won't freeze in what she's wearing, she can crack on. If we're having a lazy day and she decides she wants to take her bubble machine outside, I'm not making her get dressed beforehand.

You sound very judgemental, and like you're not quite answering truthfully.

Sorry wouldn't wash a pair of jeans/ heavy duty combats/shorts or dungrees for a little one for a few mud/grass stains.

My children had a bath every night until the end of primary, daily shower at secondary, no I would wash what we call " scuffs" after every wear. Jeans can cope with a bit of muck far better than any pyjamas.

I don’t think the occasional pj day is minging, that said if I do have a pj day. I usually change into fresh pjs and wash and clean my teeth then chill in bed a bit. But i probably wouldn’t if I had kids etc as it’s one of those things I wouldn’t want to do very often.

Not all PJ's are thin cotton for a start.

But by your logic, kids being in PJ's all day is disgusting, but not washing them or their clothes when they've spent the day outside is fine?

Double standards there I think.

How arrogant.

Well no thin cotton pyjamas are clearly less suitable for outside play than clothes designed for outdoor wear. I wouldn't bathe my children after playing outside, neither would I necessarily launder their clothing. This place is like the looking glass sometimes. Not getting your kids dressed before allowing them to play outside is solvenly and poor parenting no matter which way you look at it.

Won't they get dirty and maybe wet in their clothes if they got dressed and went in the garden anyway? Does it matter if they're going to be washed after anyway?

I have dogs to walk so all day pj's not really an option.....also I don't think I could just stay in all day.
But I do have lounge wear which are basically daytime pj's you can be seen in!

I cannot understand letting children go in the garden in their pyjamas, don't they get cold and dirty do they put socks and shoes on ? For the love of God why not just get them dressed ?

I know, scandalous, innit? People enjoying being indoors! 😱

I know. God forbid you want to drink a coffee, eat some biscuits and read a book. Or, even worse, watch some TV!

Gotta love the assumption that everyone lives somewhere the outdoors has pleasant places to walk that you don't have to drive to, or weather you want to be out in, or simply that everyone likes going out and there's something wrong with you if you want a quiet day indoors.

Because I've been at work all week, then yesterday I was out doing the food shop etc, so today I stayed in my home, in my PJ's, which were clean on after a shower when I woke up.
That's why.

I don't mind staying in pj's all day as long as the beds are made and the house has been cleaned 😁

How do you equate having a comfortable PJ day with lack of self respect? Do we have to be dressed up and on show all the time?

And as PP said, we're not girls. We're adult women. Speaking of respect ...

I doubt many GIRLS are using this site.