To be sitting in soft play wondering

[PrammyMammy]

How it is possible for all these other little boys & girls to still look tidy & clean while my dd is raggedy as soon as we leave the house?

I've brought dd (4) to soft play while ds is at a party.
I'm sitting here while she plays with another group of girls all with pigtails still intact, white jumper still white, no dirty knees or grubby faces.
My dd, I don't know how she manages it, just attracts dirt, her red leggings have grey knees, her hair bobbles are somewhere in the play area never to be seen again, her vest is somehow pulled up out the front of her jumper.
She's grinning from ear to ear though and loving it.
Anyone else have a lo who just can't stay clean?

(light hearted - I don't mind having a mucky dd really)

She sounds like me when I was a kid

I always sported the 'dragged through a hedge backwards' look.

Even in wedding photos!

I have a ds like that. Went to the park with his cousin once. They both left my house clean, were.there for the same amount of time, went on the same things. Ds looks like he's been dragged through a hedge backwards and rolled around in dirt. Nephew doesn't even have a hair out of place.

Not LO now but my DS was/is like that (his school shirt is a disgrace at the end of the day)

DD is one of those instinctively 'clean' children
(Which brings it's own trials because if something has a tiny mark, she changes clothes)

She sounds just like my 4 year old niece The state she is in when I pick her up from school some days, oh my Lord. All the other little girls look so dainty and sweet as they leave the classroom but she comes bounding out with her hair all over the place, her shirt hanging out, her skirt tucked into her knickers, dinner down her jumper etc etc. You can't help but love them for it though

Hah through the hedge backwards is something I've heard many times.
Glad to hear others are just as dirty. I wonder how they manage it.

She will for sure be the wee girl with her skirt in her knickers next year. She comes home from nursery with her hair glitter glued to her head, snack all over her face and jumper, once her socks and trouser had to be changed because she climbed a tree and traipsed through mud. She was awarded star of the week for her confidence outdoors that day.

How fab!!! I bet she looks like she is having a whale of a time!!
My DD has a habit of finding dirt even after I've vacuumed!!

DD2 had instant frizz baby hair until well after she started school, so the second she sat in her car seat she looked like a scarecrow.

At 12 she looks immaculate and is much more likely to have make up on than me.

DD1 is 15 and still attracts paint.

I used to complain to nursery about the lack of aprons, but at least it was partially washable. Acrylic isn't.

I aam still like that. (sorry to be the barer of bad news. ) dd and ds are the same.

I could sit in a freshly cleaned clean room and still get mucky. some people can play on a coal heap and stay immaculate.

This is DD!

I bet the tidy kids were the ones who sat quietly during rhymetime

My 5 year old ds doesn't attract dirt

But he rips everything!

Oh Susan so she may always be mucky.
At least they are wipe clean at the end of the day.

Sadly I have never been able to achieve the polished look, I have. Ever kept whites clean and clothes crease the second I step out of the door. My curly hiss never looks tidy unless it's straightened or pinned up and my beautiful dd seems to have inherited all my traits. Even with a coordinated outfit she somehow manages to individualise it and the same with her wild curls, if I try to tie them back it's everywhere in no time! I will help her to learn about grooming and self care But she loves to get mucky and covered in crud, sometimes it exasperates me when I'm in anxious mummy mode, worrying about what people think of my parenting skills but most of the time I just think how happy she is and how liberated she is and I hope she can live her life relatively unshackled by worrying about what others think of her appearance.

Typos: * I have NEVER
*my curly HAIR

Aww sounds just like my DD. Her fringe is taking ages to grow out too, she goes to school with neatly pinned back hair, comes out like a Shetland pony. sigh

DD1 comes out of school every day with her hair falling out, yoghurt all down her front, her coat half on and one sock up and one sock down.

All the other girls look immaculate. I despaired at her flyaway hair when she was a baby, but soon accepted it. Nothing I can do!

Dd is like that, always seems to be covered in food/mud/pen. I just think it means she's had a god day if she's mucky! Whenever we're at soft play she goes all red and pink and splotchy in the face too.

I have a Dd like this too. DS ( younger) is much more prissy about dirt :). I beleive it's inborn

Oh god, Ds is already like this at 20 months. By the time we left the house at 7.30 this morning he had milk down his jumper, sticky hands a snotty face and Weetabix in his hair. I can't begin to describe the state of him by the time i picked him up from the cm at 5.

Also DD2's class took to treating assembly as a hair dressing session (I've watched them during sharing assembly).

Thus my neat pigtails and plaits entered school at 9.00 and by 9.30 has been totally rearranged.

As I tended to doze off in sharing assembly, I never had the heart to tell her off.

DD gets her hair done twice a day into many plaits to try to control it. She could get dirty in a clean room. However, she is fearless and active so that is fine.

I went to Vietnam and spent the whole time like this looking at the women and girls in their ai dao, changing tires, biking, riding, working in the fields, spotless. I can't wear white

I have one of each. DD1 (5) stays clean and tidy for the most part. Loves to play and run and mess around, but doesn't seem to get covered in gunge during the process. Leggings and t shirts can be worn twice or more without needing to be washed.
Dd2 (3) is a dirt magnet. She is a bit like Pigpen from the Peanuts cartoons. She can be as clean as you like, but within five minutes is covered in jam, mud, crumbs, glue, etc. Hair clips removed, cardigan and tights likewise. But she doesn't mind, so I try not to let it bother me!!

I have two of those. My 5 yo dd looks permanently filthy, her hair is too fine to stay in bobbles, and can make any outfit look coordinated. My 2 yo dd generally looks scruffy too, she could find filth in a sterile room Im sure.
My ds isn't so bad, apart from his inability to keep marker pens away from his school jumpers...

I can't even drop DS off at nursery in a clean state - shone how his hair is sticking up all over despite a good brushing and a ton of water, there's snots/milk all over both him and me. When I collect him I can tell what he's been up to by the stains and the fact he always ends up with glitter in his nappy whenever they do craft stuff.
I laugh when people say you don't need to bath toddlers every day - if we didn't the poor lad would be stuck to his bed by morning!