To think that people should get dressed to do the school run?

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I was quite sort of when I saw the mother of a friend of my dd's in reception dropping off at school in her pj's this morning. Is it really that difficult to get dressed in time? Maybe I'm not normal, you know getting clothes on to leave the house .

But this thread is about wearing PJs on the chool run, not tracksuits..despite anyone thinking they are 'common' attire, they are still outdoor wear.

I don't particularly like tracksuits so I don't wear them outside from day to day..however they are accepted as outdoor clothing for a lot of people, rightly or wrongly.

THat link about Tesco banning PJs was interesting.

I actually laughed out loud at the comment of that poor customer they turned away:
"I think it's stupid really not being allowed in the supermarket with pyjamas on.

"It's not as if they're going to fall down or anything like that. "

Riven " I reckon its to do with the blurring of boundaries between private and public. Like the rise in reality shows. Things that were private are now public"

That's a fascinating theory. I think you're onto something there

On the only occasion I risked going on the school run in my PJ's my car broke down and I had to walk my DD to school with 'SEXY BUNNY' on my rump. Lesson learnt!

"IT'S ABOYT GOING OUT IN YOUR BEDCLOTHES. The clothes you SLEPT in. It's rank. "

So there is something inherently rank about sleeping?

Well, i did school run today (after shower, hair wash and dressed) and no PJ's in sight thank goodness.

I agree with all those who have said negative things on this thread and I dont feel like duplicating.

'what sort of weird people wear PJs anyway?'

People who can't afford to keep the heating on at night, and like to be warm in bed? People who like them? This whole thread is OMG - somebody is different to somebody else. Run to the hills screaming!!!!!

I posted this
"PLEASE will someone explain to me why pyjamas that have only been worn for a few hours in bed are "skanky", and yesterday's clothes over an unwashed body are OK?

And PLEASE will someone explain to me why, for example, navy blue pyjama bottoms tucked into boots with a coat over is "rude" "disrecpectful" and a sign of low self esteem and navy blue track suit bottoms worn the same way aren't?"

earlier and nobody has answered. I can only conclude that all the judgemental people on here are narrow minded, suburban bigots who can't see beyond their own little privet hedges.

There's a big wide world out there - try it sometime - you might like it!

Even when a DC has to be dropped off at school at 4am for a school trip I wouldn't go in my PJs.

I have clothes for work, casual clothes, night out clothes, and bed clothes and I dress as I feel comfortable.

I can honestly say I have never felt the need to go out in my PJs even when kept up all night by a sick DC.

However this could also be a hangover from my childhood when we used to laugh at my Granddad who would go out for the milk in his PJs with trousers over the top and his coat. So it's not a new phenomenon.

I have to admit I have never in 6 years seen a mother in pyjamas on the school run. (I do the school run, as I work from home.)

It's interesting, though - whenever a SAHM-bashing thread comes up (and this isn't one, necessarily, I'm just saying whenever one does), or a housework thread, or a "DH is a lazy arse" thread, we see the justification given by SAHMs that working out of the house is not the only kind of work there is, that they are not "living off" DH, they are working even though it isn't paid, etc.

OK, I can accept that, if you treat it like a job and actually get dressed for it. Somebody in her pyjamas on the school run would say to me that they weren't "serious" about the whole treating-it-as-a-job thing.

What UnquietDad?!? I was finding this thread funny until your comment. If I do the school run in my pyjamas then I am a crap mother? That is basically what your comment boils down to. WTF!

I didn't say a crap mother. I was agreeing with the people who were saying it's really a basic requirement of interacting with other human beings to actually get dressed in the mornings!

UnquietDad So I need to be properly dressed to make meals, hoover, clean the bathroom?
Being a SAHM is not exactly the same as WOH. We are in our own homes, so entitled to wear whatever we feel happy wearing. My DC will not care, so long as their needs are being met (which they are). Being at home doesn't necessarily mean there is less work involved, it just means that I have a different kind of work.

I think it would be quite a cold attitude, to view looking after my children as no different to any other job!

Who says it's a basic requirement? To the best of my knowledge there is no law against going out in PJs. It's not for me, but I would not consider it my place to tell someone else what to wear.

I have taken my youngest along with me on the school run in HIS pyjamas (with wellies and a coat over the top) as I did not have enough time to get him dressed too after his older sister's going-to-school-meltdown, but I don't think I could ever justify having to do it in mine. I am pretty lazy and slobby and have crap time-management skills, but still manage to pull on something resembling an outdoor outfit for the school run. I too live in a pretty average area and have never seen any 'jama'd-up parents at the school gate, so reckon wherever this phenomenon occurs it must be like a statement - "check me out in my 'jamas, and what?"
FTR, am assuming it's the pyjamas that are obviously pyjamas causing so much consternation here, if it's jogging bottoms, it doesn't count as 'jamas, even if you have slept in them!

'Somebody in her pyjamas on the school run would say to me that they weren't "serious" about the whole treating-it-as-a-job thing.'

What other conclusion would you say this statement makes other than being a crap parent? If you don't take your job 'seriously' then you are crap at it.

"I have to admit I have never in 6 years seen a mother in pyjamas on the school run."

I have done the school run for 30+ years for my children and grandchildren alike and Im the same.

Definitely slovenly and not a good example for our children to be shown.

Some people are obviously protesting a little much here!

Fuck off UnquietDad.

And a pleasant morning to you too, dearie.

I think I just don't like the assumption that someone is a crap parent if they pop out in their PJs. What you've said is really quite offensive

Go to Liverpool. It is jamas, uggs and a duffel coat for the walk to school then off to Morrissons for the shop on the way back. Having said that a couple of teenagers walked past my house in jamas the other week.

I don't wear jamas so had no choice but to get dressed. It would have scared the children.

I can throw on last night's clothes in a trice, just leave off bra and socks, put on slip on shoes and I'm away.