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?

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!

I feel sorry for the kids who are being sent swimming in clothes so dirty they can't put them back on afterwards.

My kids swim, have a shower, put their onesies on and we go home. We are all perfectly happy with this arrangement thank you

They don't wear onesies to bed though, as they get too hot. So they get removed before bed. Essentially we define a onesie as loungewear here. I hope that reassures you all who find this habit alarming

I'll also confess to taking them out of the house in babygros as babies instead of dressing them in full outfits. Horrific I'm sure.

I live fairly rurally and take my DS (7rs) swimming at 4.30pm. It's a thirty minute car ride away.
Several children ARRIVE in their PJ's and dressing gowns. My only thought is 'hope they're not cold' when they get out of the car.
Otherwise, nobody gives a stuff.
Also, mums and dads change boys and girls in the men's changing room, as well as in the ladies changing room.
Again, no-one bats an eyelid.
It's lovely living in a place without the judgypants brigade.

This could've been me, dd's lesson was 4.15-4.45 yesterday, and afterwards she had a shower and put her pjs on.

I'm sorry that I'm such a lazy parent! sorrynotsorry

It sounds like a lovely cosy idea. Then they're settled and ready to relax at home before bedtime. I live in my PJ's in the house though. "Proper" clothes for outside obviously!

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

So would u equate say, spitting/dropping litter/a tramp picking up a fag dimp and smoking it with people putting kids, after they have showered and changed into clean pjs to GET IN THE CAR AND DRIVE HOME??

to what unsanitary habits do you refer I'd love to know?

Or are u the kind of person who considers someone eating in public (clutches pearls) unsanitary also?

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which part of "they aren't going out, they are going home" is so hard for you to grasp?

Which part of "they are already out because they are in a swimming pool and then there is a drive home, which is OUTSIDE the home" is so hard for you to grasp?

We actually bought our DC onesies for this very reason- after swimming they put on pyjamas and then a onesie, then the onesie comes off at bedtime and into bed. That way if they spill their dinner it's onto the onesie and no change of pyjamas needed. Much easier and after the stress of back to back swimming classes it's lovely to have an easier bedtime.

I purposely buy PJ's that look like joggers, then I get up and immediately put my coat and trainers on and take my needy won't take no for an answer dog for a walk.

What do you think of that eh?

Which part of "they are already out because they are in a swimming pool and then there is a drive home, which is OUTSIDE the home" is so hard for you to grasp?

Now it's becoming clear...you have ocd/irrational anxiety about anything you do not deem to be 'the norm' right? I feel a modicum of sympathy for you and others like you.

Also with regards to the not wearing pjs outside as they are something u sleep in comments - how do you know that people wearing 'normal everyday' clothes haven't slept in those eh? People all around Great Britain could be wantonly traipsing around the streets or driving home in their cars in clothes that they've dundunduuuuunn - slept in the night before! How would you ever know (I know I've done it back in the day)!
Just to give u neurotic peeps something else to drive yourself nuts thinking about how unsanitary it is!....

For me it's more about ease of changing as some people have mentioned - it is so much easier to get a onesie on to a slightly damp child than proper clothes. Sometimes pyjamas underneath as well depending on time - tonight DD will be swimming until 8pm so will definitely be putting pyjamas on afterwards (if I remember to take them!). They also usually change into swimsuits and onesies at home before swimming - saves so much hassle of changing there and having to take/bring back the onesie/dirty clothes.

What? Weird? To me this seems normal. dd swims until 6pm, has a shower, with shower gel and shampoo, gets lovely clean pjs on/onesie, gets in car, goes home, snuggles up, all clean for bed time.

Really weird to put clothes back on, yuk! Even weirder to take clean clothes to put only to have to change once home.

feel sorry for the kids who are being sent swimming in clothes so dirty they can't put them back on afterwards.

Do your kids go to school? Or are they only allowed in sanitised environments approved by you for quality or cleanliness and material standards?

Muggle - mine go to school. It's where they get filthy. We don't go home between school and swimming, so they go in school clothes usually covered in mud at knees, muddy shoes after playing outside in January and often lunch or paint down them. 5 year old I'm never convinced is completely wee drip free on his willy after peeing, so wouldn't want him putting day old pants back on. Hence we take pjs and clean underwear to go on after shower.
They even have swimming day pjs which are all navy so you could never tell they are pjs.

Some kids change into pjs after an after school swimming club at my local pool too and I think it's fine.

YANBU. I'm in France, onesies pretty much do not exist here (other than babygros for - you know - babies) and no one - adult or child - would be seen out of doors in their pyjamas. It seems very bizarre to me.

muggle is on our (the sensible) side artandco - I believe she was referencing another (non sensible) poster!

lostinfrance That's probably because of how 'chic' everybody in France is isn't it?
And with all the gitane smoke being puffed around over there I'm not sure I'd go out in my pjs either (generalization I know but one gained from my own experience of France)!

dd2s lesson was about that time, and she always got dressed into her onsie afterwards, rather than putting back on her school uniform. It was really nice and warm and snuggly when cold after swimming too.

But she only did it when she was younger, now she is 9 and she wouldn't do it.

Yep. Onesie or fleece PJ's here too with lesson at dinner time.

Bloody great idea IMO!

I find it strange when I get to the gym at 5.30 and it's like I've gate-crashed a massive sleepover! It didn't use to happen when mine were little: I wonder why it does now? Because of onesies, maybe?

I don't think I'd've bothered packing jamas as well as swimming stuff, then having to carry the dry clothes home as well as the wet swimming things. And I wouldn't have liked the idea of them out of the house in pyjamas. Things have changed since back in the day, in 2009, obviously!

Which part of "they are already out because they are in a swimming pool and then there is a drive home, which is OUTSIDE the home" is so hard for you to grasp?

Being in the car is not OUT, its in. In the CAR. Not at the cinema, or at school, etc.

WTF could you possibly care if children are wearing soft tops and pants that are pyjamas instead of soft tops and pants that are tshirts and joggers? What possible difference does it make to your life? Does it offend you somehow? Do you have a phobia of sleepwear?

Lazy parents don't bring the kids to swimming lessons in the first place. Lazy parents dont' juggle activities, and bring bags of shampoo and comfy clean pyjamas to get changed into, while minding other kids and everything else.
LAZY parents are the ones judging other people because they can't be arsed to expand their odd, rigid, judgey, nonsensical mindset to allow for perfectly normal things like this.

We do it - DS is barely "outdoors" in his PJs after swimming though - pool, shower (with a friend to save others having to wait longer for the shower), PJs on, straight from private pool door to car parked on drive, 15 mins drive home and straight from car on drive to house. To me, that isn't wearing your pyjamas in public.

Oops yes I'm sensible 🙃😀

Forgot my stars

Why is there so much outrage on MN about pjs outside the home?