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Do you let your dc stay in their PJs in the school hols?

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twosoups1972 · 24/12/2018 11:05

Only a few days into the holidays and already I am annoyed with them not getting dressed. I'm not insisting on early mornings and getting dressed straight away but surely it's not unreasonable to be washed and dressed by lunch time??

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adaline · 25/12/2018 11:31

I don't see the problem with it so long as they get outside occasionally. I don't see the point in getting dressed if you're not going to leave the house - surely it just creates more washing?!

We got up and dressed this morning so we could walk the dog and we have family over tonight so have to be presentable, but if that wasn't the case I'd have gotten straight back into PJ's!

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine · 26/12/2018 20:33

Why not? If we're not going anywhere, I don't see the point in creating even more washing for no reason. My DH and I sleep naked anyway, so our jarmies are only worn just after a shower on an evening until bedtime. I can't wait to come in from work and get into PJs and own more pairs than I do clothes. Each to their own choices and preferences though.

HexagonalBattenburg · 26/12/2018 20:38

Mine were running around playing in the garden with their pjs on under their coats when I left them at their grandparents earlier today (grandparents live very rurally so not overlooked or anything). They're warm enough, they've got clean ones to change into - I couldn't care less about them getting dressed in a morally appropriate manner when they're finally getting to unwind from the last term at school.

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SoyDora · 26/12/2018 20:42

Never been in this situation as I don’t think we’ve ever had a day when we haven’t left the house, so obviously have needed to get dressed (mine are only 5 and 3 though and need exercising like puppies).
The pyjamas wouldn’t necessarily bother me, but not leaving the house for days on end would.

Millie2013 · 26/12/2018 20:43

We get dressed and go out most days, even if just to the park, but I don’t see a problem with a PJ day if we’re staying in

Oldraver · 26/12/2018 20:48

Yes, though he doesn't wear them in bed and he does have to shower/wash

Stuckforthefourthtime · 26/12/2018 20:57

We never have a day without going outside.
I'm all for a bit of gluttony at Christmas, but the idea of eating all that and then just sitting inside for days is a bit uncomfortable. Healthy body healthy mind and all that...

MeetOnTheSIedge · 26/12/2018 21:02

I think it's fine once in a while. Mine both do lots of sport and are on the go non-stop in termtime, so the occasional pyjama day does not consign them to an unhealthy lifestyle.

PattiStanger · 26/12/2018 21:04

Never happens here, it's just not the way we are, no one comes downstairs until fully dressed, there's never a day when no ones goes out of the house, nightwear during the day is an alien concept to me and my dcs.

MeetOnTheSIedge · 26/12/2018 21:11

There's never a day when no one leaves the house here either, but it really isn't a problem if a teenage DC stays in all day, it doesn't stop anyone else going out. We didn't do it when they were younger though, neither DH or I are stay at home all day types.

ilovepixie · 26/12/2018 21:12

I love a day when you can lounge around in your pyjamas all day and not leave the house. Sadly days like that are very rare.

Passmethecrisps · 26/12/2018 21:18

I can tolerate it for a while but I just don’t feel right if we aren’t dressed. Dd6 is a night owl and loves a lie in. Like others here we are up and out the house early every day during term time and not home later so it is dinner bath and bed. I like to give her time to just be and potter.

I never understood the straight into jammies (Sorry pp who hates that) after work until recently either though. I am having a stressful time at work and have a toddler who doesn’t sleep. I have found myself really needing a shower and into jammies after toddler bedtime. So I suppose it’s just what you need at the time.

Nothing on earth would posses me to leave the house beyond the garden in my jammies though

TheBigFatMermaid · 26/12/2018 21:20

Loads of kids round here go out and play in their PJs, I at least insist mine get dressed before they leave the house. Otherwise, I'm not bothered. I mostly dress before coming downstairs myself, but they like to chill in PJs.

HicDraconis · 26/12/2018 21:20

If they want to spend all day in pjs they can do. We still go out of the house, they just wear their pyjamas to the beach - though mostly they’ll want to get dressed.

This morning (currently 10:15 here) DH and both boys are dressed, I’m sitting with them still in pjs and drinking my second coffee. I’ll wander upstairs to put a swimsuit on in a while though, pjs aren’t so great for going in the sea.

I love a pj day with games and music and general lazing around! Thinking of getting more sets so I can have sleeping ones and daytime ones 😊

youarenotkiddingme · 26/12/2018 21:26

Ds and I were in PJs until after lunch. Then we washed and dressed and went out for an hour.

An hour after returning home he showered and put clean pjs on!

I've had mine on since I woke from my (unintentional!) now at 5pm.

Printerneedsink · 26/12/2018 21:33

No we don't. If you keep yourpyjamas on all day when do you wash? Do you take them off, wash and then put them back again? Or do you wash in the evening?

Pinkyyy · 26/12/2018 21:37

I don't allow them to wear the PJ's they slept I'm, but getting washed and then putting on clean lounge wear or even pyjamas is fine

Serin · 26/12/2018 21:37

DH and I like to get up and dressed but our older teens are a lot more relaxed and do slob about in pjs. They do at least get dressed to walk the dog or go for a run though.

tittietinsel · 26/12/2018 21:49

How funny are people who assume wearing pyjamas means you are dirty

RebelWitchFace · 26/12/2018 22:04

@Printerneedsink I don't actually sleep in my pyjamas, so they go on in the morning after shower and they come off at bedtime (sometimes I shower again sometimes I don't).

WhoTookTheChristmasCookie · 26/12/2018 22:32

I live in pyjamas/loungewear unless I'm leaving the house/having guests.
I don't own any clothes that I deem comfortable enough to sit at home in - over my cold, dead body would I wear jeans to 'relax' in.

DD is always dressed in something comfy at home too.

Printerneedsink · 26/12/2018 22:38

Ok ^Rebel you're just wearing pyjamas in the daytime instead of normal clothes,so pyjamas are sort o justcomfy lothes to you. That's not the same as just keeping yourpyjamas on all day...

cricketmum84 · 26/12/2018 22:43

DD (9) is poorly, hacking cough and a viral rash all over her back that comes and goes. She has been in her onesie all day and I don't care. DH gets stressed though and kept pushing her to get dressed.
Tomorrow DH goes back to work, my company shuts down between Christmas and new year so we are staying in our onesies all day!

Mulberry72 · 26/12/2018 22:45

DS12 has been wandering about in his underpants all day (clean ones that he put on after he showered after his morning run).

I’ve been in PJ’s all day (again, clean ones after I showered. DH has been in his shorts all day.

I’d never stay in the same PJ’s I’d slept in all night, that’s just too icky!

TokyoSushi · 26/12/2018 22:50

We all get showered and dressed every day (unless ill) but often not until lunchtime in the holidays.

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