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AIBU?

AIBU to think that the mums on the school run

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M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:08

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?

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GetOrfMo1Land · 23/09/2011 09:28

I see it quite a lot in my local Asda.

I don't do a school run but imagine it goes on.

anewmotivatedme · 23/09/2011 09:29

I've never seen anyone on school run in pj's. I'm guilty of doing the run with unbrushed hair, no make-up, and yesterday's clothes.

wigglesrock · 23/09/2011 09:29

I pull on trekkie decks and a sweatshirt if time is short, I'd no time to get washed this morning so I didn't. The headmistress at our local school put a note out to all parents requesting them not to come to school in their pjs - saying that she could hardly ask for pupils to wear a uniform correctly if their parents couldn't manage to get out of their pjs.

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:29

The only time i have seen someone in their PJs in a supermarket is on Children In Need.

Even at school when we did fancy dress for Comic Relief/CIN i refused to go with my friends ideas of going to school in PJs, slippers and dressing gown.

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GetOrfMo1Land · 23/09/2011 09:29

Of course kids notice and take the piss, Cailin.

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:30

CailinDana
Well sorry but you are wrong there
My DS1 who is 5 noticed and asked me why that lady was wearing her slippers.

Plus to a child they will recognise a fully grown women pushing a pushchair wearing fucking bunny slippers.

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Psammead · 23/09/2011 09:31

In all seriousness, if I saw someone walking around the supermarket in their nightwear, I would offer them assisstence, assuming they had perhaps wandered out of a hospital or had mental health issues.

The only time I could imagine leaving my house in my PJs would be on a stretcher or during a fire (or maybe to run up the path to put some rubbish out or something). I just don't understand why people do it.

baguettecut · 23/09/2011 09:31

It's just a sad fact that certain things are becoming normalised now and anyone who dares to question those things are thought of as the weird ones.

It's just a sign o' the times, I guess.

CailinDana · 23/09/2011 09:32

I've never come across it in all the time I was a teacher. One mum came to school totally bashed up from a car crash and absolutely none of the poor child's classmates noticed. At all. Kids don't look at the parents they're too interested in each other.

Mums around the school gates can be total bitches though. That's where the bullying goes on IMO. And children pick up on that. So teach your child to accept others by being accepting yourself is what I say.

pictish · 23/09/2011 09:32

Why is it such a crime??
I do not understand the outcry about it.

So it's a bit lazy? So effing what?

Of course, I expect that none of you lot ever cut corners anywhere at all.
Imagine being so wonderful that you never cut corners, and still have plenty of time to look down on those who do, by wearing their PJs on the school run....what with it being SUCH an important issue.
Well done you!

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:32

wrigglesrock
My thoughts when i saw her, what must her child think when he is getting dressed on a morning, whist his mother sits there waiting for him. They didnt come in a car either, they walked, she walked pretty much half my way home and turned onto another street so a good 10 mins walk away.

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Bogeyface · 23/09/2011 09:32

OMG Cailin, what planet are you on?! Kids will get bullied for having the wrong type of lunchbox ffs, so a mother who turns up looking like wee willie winkie is handing it to the bullies on a plate!

And if being a judgey bitch means I have basic standards of dress and hygiene (one assumes they dont take the PJs off to wash themselves then put them back on again) then I 'll stick with being judgey bitch thanks!

anewmotivatedme · 23/09/2011 09:33

CailinDana - I'm certain my DS would notice a mum in her pyjamas too.

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:34

I cut corners, but i also find the time on a morning to look presentable to my sons school teacher and not look like a fucking slob who cant be arsed to get dressed on a morning.

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Bogeyface · 23/09/2011 09:35

It is quite wonderful pictish, yes :)

Its called "getting up in time"

fastweb · 23/09/2011 09:35

I'm trying to work out what would happen in my tiny rural corner of Italy if a parent turned up in nightwear.

Think the fashionista polizia would be called.

I get tutted at when I roll up with no make up on and slightly scruffy hair.

My face repels makeup when leaving the house before 7.30

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I don't know how some of the other mum's do it, full slap, coiffed, ironed clothes and blimming accessorized to boot.

I tip my hat, they are either seriously organized, full of relentless energy or massivly talented in the "being groomed at god awful o'clock in the morning" department.

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:35

Cailin like i said MY DS (5) NOTICED and asked me why she was wearing BUNNY SLIPPERS.

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thisisyesterday · 23/09/2011 09:35

me thinks pictish doth protest too much

no-one has said it's a crime. and i'm sick of the whole "well aren't you SO wonderful" line being trotted out just because people have standards. no-one has claimed to be perfect, or not cut corners.

it is LAZY and RUDE to turn up to school without bothering to get dressed.

would you go to work like it? to an interview? walk around town?

PetiteRaleuse · 23/09/2011 09:35

YANBU

No, it hurts no-one, but it is embarassing to the kids. I can't imagine what would happen over here in France if someone took their child to school wearing pyjamas. I can't believe it has become acceptable in the UK.

It's lazy and it's sloppy and sets a bad example.

Bogeyface · 23/09/2011 09:36

Anyway forget PJs, I committed a far bigger sin. I wore my......MUMBOOTS to school this morning :o

M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:36

LMAO @ Wee Willie Winkie

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M0naLisa · 23/09/2011 09:37

Bogeyface What are mumboots?

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pictish · 23/09/2011 09:37

It's NOT an interview and it's NOT a walk around town though!
Christ get over it and put your vitriol somewhere worthwhile, you peevish bird brains.

CailinDana · 23/09/2011 09:37

That's exactly what I think pictish. Women are so incredibly hard on each other, it's like they look for something to judge each other for. I met a few mums who wore PJs to the gate, one had PND and was barely coping, one was a doctor who did night shifts and others were just in a rush because of useless partners or just didn't bother sometimes. Plenty of men don't look after their kids, don't do housework, don't bring their kids to school, beat their families, drink, gamble, never see their children and yet it's the mums who are making the effort by getting their kids to school on time that get judged. Not for being a bad mum but for not wearing the right thing. How sad and stupid and fucking petty.

baguettecut · 23/09/2011 09:38

'cutting corners' to me, at least, is making the packed lunch the night before or online shopping. It's not not getting dressed.

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