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

382 replies

PlayNoBill · 19/01/2017 21:32

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?

OP posts:
Slarti · 20/01/2017 08:03

The 'I don't do it, therefore it's weird and wrong' mentality of some people on this thread is staggering.

More a case of "it's weird and wrong, therefore I don't do it."

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 08:05

pyjamas are for in bed or in the house at least. joggers are for out

augustbody · 20/01/2017 08:06

Forget the bog brush, I think we have found the new MN hot bun fight topic!

SquinkiesRule · 20/01/2017 08:10

I noticed all the little kids coming out for the swim center in PJ's the other evening. I thought it was a great idea, lesson finished at 6.30 (Dd's started right after) looked like the parents had showed the kids and put on PJ's, brilliant idea.

SquinkiesRule · 20/01/2017 08:10

Showered the kids, they a aren't in a show.

ChocChocPorridge · 20/01/2017 08:12

pyjamas are for in bed or in the house at least. joggers are for out

So it's purpose, not form?

So if I bought fleecy, pink heart covered bottoms, and only wore them out of the house that would be fine, but the moment I put them on and fell asleep they would be come tainted by pyjama and could no longer leave the house?

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 08:12

but it is infantalising them

ChocChocPorridge · 20/01/2017 08:13

Conversely, I can't just buy a pair of jogging bottoms and wear them to sleep in, because they're for out?

Are you sure that you've got which side of this is weird correct?

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 08:17

so whatever you wear in bed chocchoc you wouldnt wear outside, you know that. let me enlighten you

BitOutOfPractice · 20/01/2017 08:21

When I'm at the gym and see kids getting straight into their pyjamas to go home, the only feeling I have is pure, unadulterated envy Envy

Artandco · 20/01/2017 08:36

I used to put mine in pjs for night flights also. So bathed and in pjs at home at 6pm, taxi to airport. Then they would be in sling on my back in pjs or toddling around airport Lounge at 9pm in pjs. So cute imo. Then on plan and snooze soon after. In morning around an hour before landing I would change them into clean clothes for the day on arrival.
Wish I could have done it myslef

Slarti · 20/01/2017 08:42

ChocChoc So you make no distinction between pyjamas and outdoor clothing? They're all the same to you?

ChocChocPorridge · 20/01/2017 08:42

so whatever you wear in bed chocchoc you wouldnt wear outside, you know that. let me enlighten you

OK, but, that's just not the case. I have joggers, that on a cold day I wear to bed. I have occasionally worn a hoodie in bed. Other days, I wear them out. They will have been washed in between.

There is no difference. Clothes are Clothes. If they're clean what is the difference?. If you can't actually articulate a difference, why wouldn't I wear them wherever I want to wear them? If you can't tell the difference between my 'bedtime' joggers and my 'outside' joggers (which you can't because they're the same joggers) then why the hell does it matter?

ChocChocPorridge · 20/01/2017 08:43

There can be a style difference, they're more likely to have cute animals on them, but a practical difference, no, there is no difference. There is no difference between my kids pyjamas, and their 10 other pairs of jersey trousers and long sleeved t-shirts.

jazzandh · 20/01/2017 09:02

Just looked at the swimzie onsie....an all in one tracksuit......looks ideal, sporty, cosy and easy. BUT - essentially no different to the onsies that many children own.

Great idea.

myfavouritecolourispurple · 20/01/2017 09:09

It's probably stranger to have a shower after swimming and put your dirty clothes back on

I have a late swim between 8 and 8.45 and leave the pool around 9pm. I am NOT driving home in my PJs! Yes I put my "dirty" clothes back on and change into my PJs later on at home.

I'm with the OP. It doesn't really bother me (why would it) but my son has never done it, even when he was in infant school and had a lesson 6-6.30.

Bobochic · 20/01/2017 09:12

I hate the idea of wearing clothes to bed that have been outside, let alone in a public facility like a swimming pool changing room. So unhygienic.

FourKidsNotCrazyYet · 20/01/2017 09:12

I wouldn't do it as there always seems to be puddles of pee and knowing my kids they'd dangle a leg in it then go to be with pee PJs! I don't like bed clothes going out side it just feels a little unsanitary/underwear like too.

SecretWitch · 20/01/2017 09:26

I'm always agog at people who get judgey about what other people choose to eat or wear. I'm guessing there isn't much happening in their own lives so they must look for excitement elsewhere.

Bobochic · 20/01/2017 09:31

It's quite normal to judge other people's insanitary habits when carried out in public.

NerrSnerr · 20/01/2017 09:35

People who talk about how dirty it is to wear pyjamas outside and then to bed- where do you live? Do you have to traipse through fields or something? Is it that dirty going from changing room to foyer to car park to car to drive to house? Where's all the dirt coming from? Is it just 'outside germs' you're worried about?

indyandlara · 20/01/2017 09:42

My 7 year old leaves the pool 5.30/ 5.45 after swimming. She showers, puts on pjs and onesie over the top and we head home. Her swim school even sell a onesie for after swimming.

She's in bed sleeping by 7.30. We are perfectly happy with our routine thanks. I'll keep in mind that it's lazy, unhygienic and infantilising her... and ignore it as this is what suits us.

ghostyslovesheets · 20/01/2017 09:43

I feel sad for all the people here who seem to have dirty swimming pools filthy dirty changing rooms and a 10 mile hike through discarded rubbish and rat droppings to reach their cars/homes!
Thankfully the pool we use is clean and the car park right out side so the chances of exposure to outside filth is minimal

ChocChocPorridge · 20/01/2017 09:47

It's quite normal to judge other people's insanitary habits when carried out in public

But the insanitary bit apparently is the going to bed bit, not the putting on a onsie after swimming? So I suppose it's not the act of wearing pyjamas outside that you object to, but the idea that they'll then go home and sleep in them.

I think this is one of those fundamental differences people have - I'm a morning washer, not a nighttime washer, so I don't see this as particularly more unhygienic than putting my unwashed self to bed, then getting up in the morning and showering before work.

Personally, I find the idea of washing before bed but not in the morning much stranger, and the idea of washing both morning and evening, at least in general (hot days/hard work excepted) rather wasteful (not to mention, when I was growing up, there wouldn't have been hot water by the evening - we were on economy 7)

user1484317265 · 20/01/2017 09:49

It's quite normal to judge other people's insanitary habits when carried out in public

It's not normal to decide a perfectly normal, clean, sensible thing like this is "insanitary", and then judge that. It's not normal at all, but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better about yourself.

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