To think parents should at least iron uniforms

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Charlemagnee · 20/09/2024 07:40

I see some children on the way to school and they look so scruffy, I mean I might be being a bit mean but it’s important to me that my children look presentable, I can’t imagine sending my children into school with a mega creased jumper/cardigan it looks awful.

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LyndaSnellsSniff · 20/09/2024 20:32

The view from my classroom window is of our all weather pitch. Most days there are about a dozen discarded school jumpers scattered across it. After lunch, many of the children have yoghurt splattered down their fronts. They get whiteboard pen all over their sleeves. They fall over in muddy puddles.

They're children being children and worrying about unironed uniform is utterly futile.

JudgeJ · 20/09/2024 20:33

SunQueen24 · 20/09/2024 09:56

Half an hour a day is 30 minutes a week.

I’ll admit my cleaner does my ironing, but only tops, DH’s work shirts and DS’ school polos. The school trousers and jumpers really don’t need ironing.

No way on earth you’d catch me ironing underwear. I do a load of washing a day.

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I think you need to work on your Maths!
Personally, I used to love ironing, and I worked full time with no cleaner, especially clothes dried outside, I more than once set the ironing board up outside if it was hot, but usually it was a Sunday evening watching something mindless on TV.

housethatbuiltme · 20/09/2024 20:53

When I was in junior school there was a girl in my class who came in with a horrible burn on her arm. She had been standing on a stool while ironing and fell off and the iron landed on her. Ironing was her 'chore', we where only 7 at the time. I remember being pretty horrified by it at the time but back then no one seemed to care.

My mam use to iron on a towel on the floor (we did not own an ironing board) if she did iron but she hated it and would avoid it, she never wanted us anywhere near the iron.

Makingchocolatecake · 20/09/2024 21:07

I don't even iron my own work clothes because the creases drop out on the journey there

CleverLemonCat · 20/09/2024 21:11

I worked full time and taught my ds how to iron when he was 12, told him that if he wanted to go to school looking as though he had been dragged through a hedge then it was up to him. He never ironed and I just gritted my teeth and let him get on with it!

MartinsSpareCalculator · 20/09/2024 21:14

I agree that it doesn't look nice. But it's their kids, their lives.

I'm incredibly busy but can spare a few minutes to iron once a week.

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