To think putting on pyjamas after swimming class at 5pm is a bit weird?

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My DD has a swim lesson 4:15 to 4:45 and other children change into their pjs after their class. Is this the new thing? Never seen it before. Is this a little early to be in pjs?

This is an ingenious idea and I wish I'd heard of it sooner! I'm not sure I'd go for full on pj's at that time but a onsie sounds perfect!

What does it matter what other people do?

Perhaps the original poster is a mums net employee who puts posts on here to deliberately wind people up and get a conversation thread going??

We do this but with a onesie as it's easy. I would hate my kids to have to put their inform back on! When we get home they DO shower before bed.
What's it to you anyway?!

What's wrong with this? It's not lazy at all! What's the point in getting the children dressed then undressed a few hours later. It's none of your business really is it

My kids always did. It meant when we went home we could just do dinner, stories, bed. Worked well for us. PJs are looser and cosier to put on when you're cold and damp that that day's school uniform. We always went straight home from the pool. (yes, through PUBLIC spaces - five minutes walk). If we were going somewhere else they would have worn clothes.

Am afraid that my "standards" do not stretch as far as bothering to have my children change twice in ten minutes at locations around 500 m apart. The were always sensible tracksuit-style PJs not a floaty nightie or anything.

Depends on the age of the children. I always change my little ones into their pjs if we are visiting family (at family house) and arriving home after their bedtime. They usually are dropping off in the car and the fight to get ready for bed wakes them up for hours.

If the children come home from swimming at 6 and have showered it does make sense to be ready for bed at 7. Personally though I would prefer a tracksuit.

Right, after the inspiration of this thread, last night after DC1's swimming lesson, rather than putting his school uniform (that he'd been wearing all day) back on after his shower and hair wash, I put him in his PJs, picked the ones that are most like trackie bottoms (and he had his coat on over the top so you couldn't see the top out of the cubical), clean socks and took him home. He seemed to like it.

It always seems odd and a bit manky for afternoon swimming lessons to put back on the clothes they've been wearing all day after their shower (I do make sure they have a proper wash including hair after swimming, was always taught that it's bad to let clorine dry on the skin), but when it's so close to bedtime by the time they get home, it seems wasteful to put a fresh set of normal clothes on just to drive home.

I do this with my little one just easier! Why do people care about what other parents are doing SO much!

I can't see why it bothers people so much, you don't have to do it if you don't like it!!

If their lesson was at about 6pm or later, it wouldn't seem so bad but I never understand why it is necessary to put them in pyjamas at 4pm. They must then go home and eat their dinner and spend hours unnecessarily wearing nightclothes. I'd apply the same rules as supermarkets - put on a tshirt and joggers, not a onesie.

I have a shower after swimming and put clean clothes on I have taken with me, definitely weird to get undressed for bed at this hour! Easier, dont kids go out to play?

Not in the dark in January in below freezing conditions no, I wouldn't think many do!

I take my DGC who rinse off the chlorine under the shower. I then put their clean pyjamas on their clean bodies rather than put dirty uniforms on. DGS is a muck magnet and I definitely wouldn't put his uniform back on. I could take fresh clothes but hardly worth it. My DDs think I'm great

If their lesson was at about 6pm or later, it wouldn't seem so bad but I never understand why it is necessary to put them in pyjamas at 4pm

What difference does it make what time it is? Lots of people put on pyjamas or loungewear when they come in from work, it makes no difference to them or yuo whether that is 4pm, 6pm or 10pm.
That is an arbitrary and meaningless distinction in a craven attempt to justify your baseless judginess.

Wearing pyjamas outside is definitely more gross than putting school uniform back on after swimming What's wrong with just bringing a change of clothes? It doesn't take long to put pyjamas on at home, plus it's more hygienic.

Gross? Hygienic? Do you hear yourself?

There is nothing intrinsically more hygenic about joggers over pyjamas. You know that, so what are you actually talking about? Do you even know?

plus it's more hygienic.

How?

I wouldn't, one because there aren't many showers at the pool and its usually busy so we just have a quick rinse then a proper hot shower and hair wash at home. All the people having full on showers are taking the piss a bit.
Two, we walk I'm not traipsing through town with the kids in PJ's.

When I go with my Mum to the ladies only swimming which ends at 9:30 loads of women put PJ's on to go home in.

Why is it taking the piss to have a shower?!

Much ado about nothing.

Amazing how humans haver such a need to judge others and put them down to feel better about themselves.

There used to be one mum at my gym that did this every week with her 2 after swimming (I always noticed her because it involved a LOT of talc), and now I notice a couple more do it too.

I always feel a bit sorry for one girl who has to get changed into a fleecy red onesie and then put her school shoes on to go home. Sartorially - it's a no-no and she's at least 12 so it looks a bit undignified.

Why is it taking the piss to have a shower?

It isn't, its what they are there for! It's just yet more MN crazy talk.

I used to out DD in a onesie after her afternoon swimming lesson. I didn't at first, she'd put uniform back on, but then I saw others in onesies and it just seemed so much easier! It's not like she was going out anywhere afterwards, just home for tea and then bed.

When she used to have a morning lesson, there was a little girl who'd turn up in her cossie and dressing gown. Parents explained she had dance class just before it, and turnaround time was so tight, it was easier to get her changed out of leotard, into cossie and just chuck the gown over the top - there wasn't enough time to add clothes into the mix at both ends.

5 year old DD has a swimming lesson between 4 & 4.30pm on a Friday - and then showers & changes into her fluffy onesie.

Why? Well, partly because it's cold outside and the onesie keeps her nice & warm and partly because she wants to! So shoot me.

She doesn't actually sleep in the onesie however - her room is warm, so she'll always change into a short-sleeved nightie to go to bed.

Why on earth does it matter what a small child puts on to feel warm & cozy in?