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

[PlayNoBill]

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 exhausted just reading about some people's worries about germs and propriety. So god know how they must feel. Wrung out with it all I'd imagine!

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They are in a sports/leisure centre. They walk through the leisure centre, and then out onto the street, to the car. And then from the car to the home. Those are public spaces.

Look, everyone can do what they like, of course. I just happen to think that it's lazy, and that some standards are worth keeping.

My daughter puts her costume on at home and then a onesie over the top to go to swim training (4 nights a week). After swimming she just showers and then puts her onesie back on to come home. Once home and properly dry, she puts her pyjamas on.

It saves time at both ends of training and there is nothing worse than trying to get clothes on damp bodies.

They are in a sports/leisure centre. They walk through the leisure centre, and then out onto the street, to the car. And then from the car to the home. Those are public spaces

What are you, google maps? . Mine don't. They walk out of one side door, about 4 paces to the car, and then home, drive onto the driveway, which is 2 paces to the door. No PUBLIC spaces of any kind. Ànd in the dark, so you couldn't even tell what they are wearing anyway!w

And so fucking what anyway? What standards mean that pyjamas are verboten while tracksuits are perfectly acceptable? What bizarre standards means dirty clothes are preferable to clean pyjamas?

And more importantly, why do you imagine anyone gives a fuck what you think?

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

Why is there so much hyperbole?

I have 3yo twins and mental 17m baby to get to the tiny pool and back without mummy blowing a gasket. I put the twins into their costumes in the comfort of my own home and then put their onesies on top (and a cardi/coat if wet/cold). Hop into the car, drvie to the pool, take off onsies and into the pool. I tuck their pants into the pocket of the swim bag and then after a (very quick) shower, pants and onsies back on and into the car. It means I have only 4 items of clothing to manage for 2 kids (plus a full outfit change for the baby who drenches himself ) and speeds everything up significantly.

Then quick dinner and into clean PJs for bed. For me the onsies are warm, easy to get on and off, they dry any damp patches that I miss without making them cold (I go for fleecey onsies) and reduces the number of things that can be dropped in puddles at the pool. Winners all round.

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The OP asked for the opinion of MN users. I'm a MN user.

I have no idea why you are getting so riled up by what I say, but I have as much a right to give my opinion as you do.

They do that round here - not my kids. Don't think it's weird but we don't do it.

Ds2 put his on after swimming. His class finishes at half 5 so 6 by the time we get home. He doesn't really do it in the summer because he is more likely to be going outside again while I'm making dinner. We don't walk through a leisure centre but even if we did who does sit actually affect other than him? Why does it get anyone else's knickers in a twist? Too much time on your hands if you can bring yourself to care enough about what children are wearing after swimming.
You'd hate it in the states then. When I was staying with family it was quite common to go to the supermarket after dinner and see children in jammies. Tis a great solution for when to fit in the food sho .

It's all just clothes. Lighten up and stop being so bloody narrow minded

Who cares, seriously? Is anyone's life this empty they have time to judge what a parent puts their child in after swim lessons?

Well I can see that if they've showered and washed hair at the lesson it's handy to pop them into pyjamas and head home.

Having said that I have a 3.5 year old who has swimming until 4.15 and it didn't even occur to me to put him into his PJs

I wouldn't be particularly judgy about it tho!

Weird. I just think of them being dragged around a dirty, wet changing room floor, and then them getting into bed with them on - yuk

I'm just back from the gym and it was kids in PJs a-go-go. Bloody sensible and I wish I could have done the same.

For those of you worried about standards and propriety, I can assure you that there were far more indecent sights on the gym floor, including a woman on the eliptical trainer in front of me wearing leggings so sheer I could read the label on her knickers and see her cellulite. To be honest tha t would perturb me dar more than some kids wearing comfortable, practical, sensible clothes no matter what they are called

Fab idea to lighten your load! If you don't understand perhaps you are a stay at home mum with one child?!

I used to do it. The only thing stopping me now is that I can't be bothered for the wait for the shower so I whisk dd home and shower her there.

Ugh, how can you have washed off all the chlorine.

Foral - how? With a shower and soap and shampoo like you would anywhere.

Oh for gawd's sake. Whatever makes life easier, it's dark at 5pm, you're presumably going straight home, so bleedin what? How about supporting each other rather than nit picking stuff that doesn't matter.

I do it. My daughters swimming lesson ends at 5pm, she has a shower and gets in to her PJ's. We get home at about 5.30, eat at about 6pm (which is a little later than usual) then she goes to bed at 7, sometimes earlier because swimming tires her out. It's helpful that she's already dressed for bed.

My DD gets into her costume and onesie at home then goes to her swimming lesson (it is at 6.30).

My little ones get scrubbed dried and talced then all cosy in their onesies to have tea and go to bed. Feel free to think I'm unreasonable.

I take mine in her pjs although to be fair she isn't swimming she's just lazy ( 2 years) and we need to leave at 730

If people want to judge this kind of stuff then knock yourself out, judge away.

No one cares what you think, they've got enough on their mind keeping the show on the road.

Those kinds of opinions are useful to know though, especially in RL. Then you know they're THAT kind of person and you need make no further effort with them as you'd never get along with someone so judgemental and up their own arses anyway.