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To think taking the kids to school in PJs is ridiculously lazy?

54 replies

HeartBurnQueen · 24/05/2011 06:53

Just reading a news story on BBC where a school has had to ask parents to actually get DRESSED before taking their kids to school. Apparantly some parents turn up to school in the morning in pjs and dressing gowns and even go as far as to pick them up in their dressing gowns and attend meetings like this!!
I've seen it where I live too though, women shuffling to the school in huge dressing gowns and pjs - I mean, ffs how lazy and what a terrible example to set the kids??

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Sirzy · 24/05/2011 06:57

Pjs are for in the house and should not be worn outside. Seems simple to me.

What I never understand is why you see people in supermarkets in pjs with a full face of make up! If you have time to do your make up you have time to chuck some clothes on.

beesimo · 24/05/2011 06:59

Has thee ever been to Middlesborough in the a.m we went to buy a horse there once it was like something out of a zombie film they were wandering around in these fluffy pink dressing gowns and ugg boots in their hundreds

Strangely though they all had full make-up on!

Bogeyface · 24/05/2011 07:04

I did it once when DS was a tiny baby. I had been up all night and was running around like a headless chicken getting the others ready for school, feeling very happy that despite having a newborn and a DH that had to work, I was still getting them in on time.....only for the kids to point out that they were ready to go but I wasnt!

So I put my boots and coat on over my PJs and hoped no one spotted it, but of course some smart arse did and made a comment about "coping". I cant remember my response but it was probably rude :o

vmcd28 · 24/05/2011 07:09

In a "normal" situation it's downright lazy and setting a totally bad example. Going to the local shop in pjs for wine, however...

2blessed2bstressed · 24/05/2011 07:34

I will happily admit to doing it....BUT.....only when I've been up half the night (one dc ill) and am planning on going back to bed....AND...I never get out of the car, dcs both old enough to cross the road and go into school without me.

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HeartBurnQueen · 24/05/2011 07:37

2blessed - I remember my friend once went to school in her pjs and slippers saying she wasn't getting out of the car so she'd be ok - when she got to school her DC's teacher wanted a word and waved her out of the car Grin She was mortified and she's never lived it down lol

I mean if you've been up all night/are ill/have a newborn it's not as bad but I think it's more directed at these women who simply can't be arsed to get dressed in a morning and who's youngest child is 7 or something! the same people do it every morning, not just after one bad night.

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Bogeyface · 24/05/2011 07:49

I believe that in some areas it is actually a fashion statement. I am sure I read something about it a year or so ago when there was a big thing in the papers about it (Tesco banned PJs as there were loads of women going shopping in them). I seem to recall women were getting up and changed into a different pair to go out in!

Will see if I can find the link....

Gandalfthedyed · 24/05/2011 07:53

It's just so eeoouww.
I can't imagine doing it - I'm someone who has nightmares about being caught out in public inappropriately attired Grin

It's just lazy, scuzzy and shows a lack of respect for yourself and those around you. I do not want to see someone in skanky nightwear in the playground or next to the fruit n veg , thankyouverymuch.
Thankfully, hell would freeze over before anyone did that in our playground purses lips

manticlimactic · 24/05/2011 07:56

My friend is from Liverpool and she's moved here. She's horrified that people are out in PJs - well more the fact that they appear to be the same ones that have been slept in.

She tells me she used to wear them out but they were clean on and ironed.

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WhereTheWildThingsWere · 24/05/2011 07:57

See, I wouldn't do it, I get up eary and have time to get dressed in the morning.

However threads like this do make me want to.

thestringcheeseincident · 24/05/2011 08:00

I can't understand it.
2 mins to pull a top and jeans on. And throw a brush through your hair. 2 minutes.

Bogeyface · 24/05/2011 08:13

Hang on, hang on.

No mentioned hair brushing.

Dont go changing the goal posts! Jeans and jumper, ok. But dont be chucking hair brushing into the mix too :o

fotheringhay · 24/05/2011 08:18

Ah, it's fine. Who makes the rules anyway? Smash the system!

Serenitysutton · 24/05/2011 08:19

Not even 2 mins I'd say. If you can get in the car and drive you have time to put on and take of clothes. I think it's shameful- how can it be fashionable to project and image of pure laziness? Mind you these areas are not known for their good fashion taste.

nenevomito · 24/05/2011 08:21

Why does it make you want to do it WhereTheWildThingsWere? I grew out of wanting to do things because someone told me I couldn't when I was about 12.

CurrySpice · 24/05/2011 08:27

I have picked dd2 up from guides in PJs once. In my defence I don't get out of the car and it is 9pm. It made me nervous though that I would get caught out by Brown Owl or have an accident. So I haven't done it again

Psammead · 24/05/2011 08:32

You know with most issues you can kind of see both sides of it, and yeah ok, you might come down more on one side than the other to whatever degree.

Well, this aint one of them.

Put outdoor clothes on, you skank.

Really, it's so lazy. Unless there are exceptional circumstances at play like you suddenly put on 10 stone in your sleep and do not fit into your clothes anymore, or a burglar stole every item of clothing you own, or you have broken several limbs and cannot physically put clothes onto your body, or you are very unwell and sleep deprived and it's a one off, just put some tracky bottoms or jeans on your legs, trainers or even flip flops fgs on your feet and a t-shirt on your body.

And frankly, if I were a teacher at the school gates and saw you arrive in your sleepwear, I'd want to see a note.

Tongue-in-cheekness aside, really, just bet dressed Confused you look like a patient escaped from the hospital otherwise.

Bogeyface · 24/05/2011 08:51

there is a difference between hiding your PJs under a coat (as I did!) because you are having a bad morning, and deliberately wearing them complete with slippers and dressing gown though.

Its that bit of it that gets me. I would rather die than go out in my dressing gown and slippers unless I was going from the house to an ambulance!

Psammead · 24/05/2011 08:59

Yes, I agree, Bogeyface.

Serenitysutton · 24/05/2011 09:02

Psa, I agree. Esp with the escaped patient look.

Al0uiseG · 24/05/2011 09:08

I've never seen it round here. It must be a regional thing. thank god or I'd definitely say something

fatlazymummy · 24/05/2011 09:20

I agree with Bogeyface. Wearing pyjamas under a coat and boots is one thing [especially if the pyjamas look more like trackies or 'loungewear'.]
Wearing them under a fleecy housecoat and slippers is absolutely ridiculous and the school is right to say something.

BsshBossh · 24/05/2011 09:21

I put my jeans on and brush my hair just to go out to water the front and back gardens first thing in the morning. When I had DD I vowed I would always be "presentable" when outside no matter how shattered I felt. This is because I remember my thinking my neighbour looked awful whenever I saw her - she had a toddler but always dressed in stained leggings and old baggy ti-shirts and that was the image of her forever fixed in me.

So when DD was born I often wore my sweatpants inside then imemdiately changed into skirt or jeans to go outside then once back inside again I'd change back into my sweats. Madness, but actually it helped me feel sane and real. I work from home now and do the same: I work at home in my sweats but as soon as I have to pop out to the shops or colelct DD from childminders or even water the front garden I change into my jeans or a skirt and make sure I look presentable. Just a habit.