AIBU to think that the mums on the school run

[M0naLisa]

Who turn up in their PJs are just lazy?

Why would anyone want to take their child to school in their PJs? It takes what all of 5 mins getting dressed??

Just seen a mum with black and white polka dots PJ bottoms on, fluffy ugg style slippers - they were slippers as they had bunny ears on them flapping about!!

Is it just me who thinks its lazy?

[giveitago]

Thanks usual suspect- I do sometimes put a coat over my PJs in school run in winter with big coat so noone can see (all 70 ft of school run). I do a quick U turn and come back home and get on with MY routine.

I'd very much hope that other mums don't give a shit about what they cannot see with me when I see them in loads of makeup and making a dress effort (and still looking shit) for what is just a school run.

We can all judge M0na.

[startail]

I've been known to keep my nightshirt on if I'm coming home to have acquit child free bath, but only with trousers on and my coat done up. I wouldn't do the school run so you could tell. DD would go nuts.

[KatieScarlett2833]

I get dressed every morning

After 8 o'clock it's PJ time.

If any one needs a lift they will have to live with my Jammies/Ugg/Hoodie combo. I don't give a fuckety fuck.

[SanctiMoanyArse]

I would look at the situation I thnk- if someone is hauling a newborn or their disabled child or has Sn themselves (am immersed in ASD world both with family and professionally so tend to recogbnise that) then I would not judge. If I knew- and after being at a certain school for a decade you tend to get to know people- person was given to being a little lazy or late then i might well .


Kladdaka that seems familiar; ds4 has trouble allowing us to put his coat on and it's the same thing exactly - a transition issue. It is indeed about establishing a routine, especially as he doesn't feel cold very well (sensory stuff- ds3 is also hyposensitive). Made the bloody mistake of buying a new coat when his zip broke last week didn't I- talk about 1 step forwards and thirty seven back! i thought ooh Thomas The Tank coat, he'll like that; must rmember to get 'my boys are not stereotypes' tattoed on my arm!

[nailak]

they should all wear jilbaab, then they could do the school run in whatever they sleep in, even if they sleep in the buff, and noone could tell.

[Mishy1234]

I think it looks really odd tbh. I once saw a woman walking past our house in the pouring rain and pjs, dressing gown and slippers. My first thought was that there was something wrong to make her go out like that.

I think it gives a bad example to children and if I were a head teacher I would certainly have something to say if parents were doing it.

Really, really sloppy and lazy imo.

[Kladdkaka]

SanctiMoanyArse I know what you mean. My daughter, also autistic, has clothes that have been patched and repaired to within an inch of their lives. People must think she has the most tight-fisted parents in existence. No, we have just learnt that it easier to get her to give up a kidney than that particular item of clothing.

[Kladdkaka]

My daughter (19) still has socks from when she was at primary school. They don't even fit her. But she still wears them. In the grand scheme of life, it just isn't worth the battle.

[SanctiMoanyArse]

[grinj] at kidney

Like that isn't it?

[Mumcentreplus]

Why the fuck is this so important to some people???? .com

[Mumcentreplus]

@ the thought of the head-mistress telling parents what to wear....and the bitch-slap that could possibly follow..

[cookcleanerchaufferetc]

It is skanky to wear pjs on the school run and not exactly a good example. But as long as my friends and I aren't doing then hey ho.

[2old2care]

Its is not something I would ever do,or have ever seen...being honest though,if I did see anyone on the school run in their pjs I would think that they were lazy.

[Hulababy]

I have never seen anyone do the school run in PJs! I would find it very odd. Have only ever read about it via MN tbh.

Certainly noone does the school run in Pjs at DD's school. And I have yet to see any parents in Pjs at the infant school I work at. No slippers either.

[Hulababy]

CailinDana - I have to say that you appear very niave if you truely think that children don't notice things. IME almost all children are very aware of what is going on around them and yes, they comment - probably more directly too because that's what children do. Especially when smaller and they haven;t really learnt the idea of tact.

[forehead]

I haven't read the whole thread However, i think that it is NASTY to leave your house without washing down below, what if you get knocked over by a bus fgs.

[Kladdkaka]

I think that if you get knocked over by a bus you'll have more urgent concerns than how clean you are down below.

[Mumcentreplus]

Ok ok...check her breathing...check her pulse...now for the most crucial check...her down belows....

[giveitago]

I took ds to reception once in my pj top with coat covering. He told every single bloody parent that I had my fleece pj top with snuggly polar bears on it.

DS was proud - I was mortified by my being outed with polar bears at the ripe old age of 42.

But I'm not lazy - just hugely busy.

[madmomma]

It's a bloody eyesore, and it's spreading. It was my late Nana's pet hate; she said people had no sense of occasion anymore - going shopping in pajamas. It's gross; same as spitting in the street, leaving dog shit around. It gets people down and it shows disrespectfor the people around you. I don't blame people for doing it - I know depression makes people not care etc etc, but just to do it as a standard thing is gross IMHO

[madmomma]

Those of you who have never seen it are lucky. Where I live, half the world walks around in their pajamas and it makes the area depressing. It's like 'we're all so low round here and life's so shit that we don't bother getting up properly in the morning'. Of course there are individual cases which are nothing to do with laziness - I've no problem with them.

[Kladdkaka]

How does wearing pjs spread disease?

[madmomma]

I take it that was in response to the dogshit parallel I drew Klad? It doesn't spread disease; I just mean that it's inconsiderate to those around you (not you personally - I understand your reasons, and I'm not talking about children either.) It's just something that really gets my goat, because as I said, I live in a scruffy, poor area, and people dragging themselves around in pajamas all day just makes it worse IMO.

[TheProvincialLady]

Kladdkaka - bedbugs?

[giveitago]

I've never seen it in a supermarket. But I'll probably do it again on school run soon as it's getting colder and I'm getting busier at working (from home). No one will see it as under my coat - but I'll do it.

Again - no one I'm trying to impress and as school is sooo close and I have more important things to think about and as long as ds doesn't notice (and he won't) - i'll certainly do it - in fact, looking forward to it after this thread.

I'm not poor, I'm not a chav but I'm really bucking against the trend naff lets get tarted up (and that's what it is) for school run. And, no on will see it as it's under coat so I doubt anyone could be offended.