To expect daughter to look a bit more 'relaxed and scruffy' now she's home from school

[localyokel]

Eldest DD back from boarding school this morning for the holidays, and whilst of course I agree that wearing correct and smart uniform is required on the journeys to and from school, surely now she's home she ought to be changing into 'home clothes' or at least relaxing it a bit instead of looking horrendously smart still. We're about to go out shopping and surely she'd be more comfortable?!

I went to posh school.

fat lot of good it did

Tell her to get changed. Ffs.

Exactly. Maybe she was tired or couldn't be arsed... who cares?

Its a non-argument.

spaghetti my Grammar school was, and still is, like that. Unless they declared it a 'non blazer day' then you had to wear it. It's a state school though.

Spotty I was just about to ask who the chuff 'spaghetti' was, then realised it was me :o I changed out of my winter NN between 2 of my posts :o

Oops time for a ! Your dd was born on the same day as mine, one year later :)

Sounds like she may be becoming institutionalised.

Aaah cool! It's also the day after my birthday :) spent my 20th birthday being 9 days overdue.

Gonna be an expensive weekend this year, my 21st, DD's 1st and fathers day :o

I've never really understood why parents want their children to take off their school uniforms when they get home anyway. They are just clothes after all. Personally I never took my uniform off after school until it was time to get into pajamas. But then I generally think that school uniform is totally unnecessary, and the rule that children should have to wear their uniform even off school premises seems quite excessive.

Oh my, that means your birthday is the day after mine creepy......

It's a great month to be born

Oh yes, June is the best month! I always love the fact it's halfway to christmas :o

When I was younger I always thought it was great that I only had to wait 6 months to get presents again :o

Maybe she's perfectly comfortable in her uniform and would like to relax a bit before getting changed? She's already had a journey home from school and might prefer to just wait until it is time to get in pjs rather than faff around putting other clothes on.

Also, at my boarding school, it was considered desperately uncool to change into mufti (home clothes) after tea every afternoon despite this being allowed. Only the juniors wore mufti and the rest of us slobbed around quite happily in our uniforms till bedtime. It might be that your dd does exactly the same at school and isn't very bothered about being in uniform for a little bit longer today.

So did she wear her uniform to go shopping in the end?

Pandemoniaa - you're probably right there, I'm not sure that she does either.

Mrs Beakman - she did at least ditch the blazer and put a hoody on, but that was it until bedtime!