To find it sad that so many children dressed as footballers for Heros day

[LaurieBlueBell]

My dc had to dress as a someone they thought was a hero today. So amongst the doctors, nurses, firefighters, police, solders, sailors etc a large proportion of the boys were dressed as footballers.

Couldn't parents explain the difference between a overpaid moron with less integrity than a pumpkin, and someone who is willing to put there life on the line for the safety of others.

My DD dressed herself as Cat Woman on heroes day! My fault for telling her to get herself sorted out I suppose. I did suggest a few ideas, including dressing as her grandmother (who she thinks of as a hero).

Just because YOU find it simple and fun doesn't mean everyone does. Stop being so bloody judgemental!

This morning I was telling my husband about all the odd (to me, at any rate) things schools do these days (I had just read a thread about the class bear and I thought " how strange). I mentioned hero days to DH and we agreed that making children wear fancy dress to school was just not on - it's not homework for the children, it's just putting pressure on busy parents. I think children wearing football kits is a great idea - I shall certainly be encouraging my DD and DGS in this direction when he starts school in a few years' time.

How can a king or a pirate be a 'hero'?

No not Mrs Beckham-I'll take her shoe collection though....

I dont find it simple and fun. I am really rubbish at creative things, which is why i found simple ways to get round it which dont take any effort!

ie taking a piece of paper making in to a cone adding sticky tape and saying is witches hat etc.

I dont find helping my kids with homework etc simple and fun either, but it is required of them by the school....

NUFC69 it can be homework for kids though, like the stuff I mentioned the kids can do themselves, decorate themselves, they can spend time researching their heros, and how they dressed etc, even at 3 they can make a crown, or a toga etc, the problem is the parents cant stand if things are not perfect looking, therefore have to do it themselves.

We've never had to do this, but DS (8) loves football and has footballing heroes. At his age there is no need for him to know too much about the exploits of John Terry and the like. Although if JT was his hero I might try and steer him towards someone else.

As for the homemade costumes, I have one DCs who loves that sort of thing and one who feels uncomfortable in anything other than normal fabric clothes, he might be Ok in a toga or similar but not cereal packets and cardboard crowns, they wouldn't last 5 mins on him.

of course a king or a pirate can be a hero, why not? A king or Pirate from a film? A knight?

anyway I am using those examples coz my daughter dressed up as a pirate, princess and little red riding hood so far, so I am familiar with them,

Footballers are mostly morons, and don't deserve looking up to . their idiotic, violent and racist bonehead fans may be what some parents aspire their kids to grow up like but not mine.

I just asked my 5 year old whose her Hero, and she said Allah, so it would be a bit hard to dress her up like that

whoknows how about what i said about cardigan worn as cloak etc, would he wear clothes with adjustments?

Yes and he has done clothes with adjustments in the past, I am quite handy with a needle and thread. But his interests mainly lie in sports, he has never been into superheroes, pirates, kings, knights, anything like that.

Dressing up days become very tiresome after a bit. Eight years in total at First School with 2 DSs. The novelty wore off big time. The football kits came out whatever the theme was. I got bored.

To be honest though, he has never been into dressing up much either, we have a few dressing up things at home that occasionally get used but I do not recall him ever showing much enthusiasm for the ones that school / pre-school request.

When I was at school my Mum made me dress as Puss-in-Boots for years because I had a pair of boots! Not very embarrassing for an 11 year old. Thanks Mum.

Last Friday was red, white and blue day. Lots of schools took part, the children wore red, white and blue, paid a pound and the money raised was split between Forces' charities. Maybe you would have been happier for your DC to have taken part in something like that OP.

It is strange when you think about what makes someone a hero. My DH is in the Forces, my Dad was a fireman, they don't see theirselves as heroes despite being in dangerous situations, they are just doing their job!

It is possible DS takes after me, nothing is more guaranteed to make me look for an excuse to miss a party than the words Fancy Dress.

At the DSs school they did a Sponsored Fun Run every year.. Reception Year-everyone went out to ELC/M&S and bought an outfit. If they gave the money they spent on outfits to charity rather than get sponsors they would have raised more.

My best friends DD's had to do this a few years ago.

Her DD1 went as her dad.

Theinets, DS1 is an avid football supporter, he is neither idiotic, nor a bonehead or racist. Not everyone who likes football is, you know, sweeping statements are never intelligent! My Gran never missed watching football matches on the TV and watched every FA cup final from the year they got a tele until the year she died. She was a lady in every sense of the word.

I'm not sure a doctor or nurse is a person who usually puts "their life on the line".

It is for the individual child to decide who their hero is, surely?

Just asked DS2 (10) and his mate. DS2 said his hero was his teacher and Steven Gerrard, his mate said Bradley Wiggins.

god i hate these holier than though thread

boo fucking hoo, find something more worthy to be sad about

You could hop on over to the 'mung beans in lunchbox' thread germy