To bring kids home from swimming in pyjamas at 5 pm?

[fredandjohn]

I wouldn't be asking this question if his swimming finished at 7 pm or whatever, but it finishes at 5, we leave there at 5:30 in pyjamas. Is it unreasonable? He has a proper shower there. He is normally very tired that day (he's 4) so doesn't do much when home only plays with his toys in lounge.

AIBU?

Pollyglot I take it you are in Australia!!! My boys just wrap a towel around them and walk to the car. They shower when they get home. As do 90% of other people!

I think it's a brilliant idea and am filing it away for future use!

YANBU. Seems reasonable to me.
DS arrives at swimming in his school uniform including shirt and tie. No way I would faff about putting that back on. He goes home in shorts pjs in summer, although how you tell they are pjs and not a shorts and t shirt set I'm not sure. In winter he goes home in a fleece onesie.

Can you dress him in a clean tracksuit that is comfortable for bed?

Why?! Just so random strangers don't have to look at a child in PJs shock horror

I would do it OP. Anything to make every day life with young kids easier.

A clean child in clean PJs after showering at swimming, not far off their bedtime, is not on the same level as a scruffy unwashed adult going on the school run or wandering around Tesco wearing last nights PJs.

The suggestion that a child wearing PJs in this situation doesn't set them a good example for later life is laughable

And yes I will openly admit, it is too much effort and pointless to put the kids in clean clothes then change into pjs as soon as we get time. Of course we are all capable, but not everyone puts what everyone else thinks or cares abefore what makes their every day life easier

Get home* not get time

I do this with my kids. We don't walk round Tescos in PJ's though. It's literally walking from the swimming cubical to the car (1.5 minutes), then from the car into the house (20 seconds) wearing PJ's.

Not uncommon when I used to take mine to swimming lessons. Go for it.

I go to David Lloyd - nearly all the children leave from swimming lessons in pyjamas or onesies. I go in the morning and have considered turning up in my pyjamas but I think that would definitely be frowned upon.

My 4 yo finished swimming at 5.15. He thinks it's really fun to be allows to get straight into his jammies afterwards. We go straight home, have tea, then bed so no one can be offended by our low standards and lack of morals.

All the other kids in his swimming lesson get in the jammies too. Some even stay for a slice of cake afterwards.

I would do this if I didn't have to trek through the town centre to get back to my car. Don't really want the dirt and grime of town on their pjs that they then wear into bed. But we really ought to find some kind of time saving solution as we just whack uniform back on and turn wash properly at home! The showers are too mad busy after their lessons.

Can you dress him in a clean tracksuit that is comfortable for bed?

What's the tangible difference between pjs and tracksuit at 4yo? I have no time for people who are so absurdly uptight and self-righteous that they pass judgement on what a 4yo wears, especially when their level of priggishness is so inflated that it is concerned by the subtleties of the cut and looseness of fit of particular cotton garments (which essentially is the only difference between pjs and other clothes)!

I always thought Hyacinth Bucket was an exaggerated caricature.... it seems not!

I wouldn't personally but wouldn't care if others did. He hardly needs clean clothes though, he could go home in whatever he arrived in and change to pjs there, it not a major task and a four year old should be able to put their own pjs on.

Oh come on who is honestly offended by a 4 year old in pyjamas?!

I wouldn't because I would always bath mine after swimming once we got home to wash her hair. But I guess if you do that washing in the showers at the pool there's no reason not to.

I do this all the time and my DC are 12 and 8. Although it's not usually 5pm. Any time after 6pm is my usual cut off (no idea why!). I do often stop off at Tesco with younger one in pjs. She's in clothes size 12-13 so looks a lot older too.

I do the same, I don't want to put the grubby clothes they have worn all day back on after a shower and also don't want to have an extra set of clothes to be worn for a few hours before bed.

Dd is 6 and always comes home from swimming in her onsie. She showers at the pool so I don't want her putting on a dirty uniform after a shower. The onsie is quick and easy.

She doesn't wear the onsie to bed though. She sleeps in a pain of pants and one of her dad's tshirts. (She is a daddy's girl, insisted on having daddy's 'snuggly tshirt' to go to bed with when she was about 2. Now they are her nighties!)

There is no issue whatsoever in putting a 4 year old in pyjamas at 5.30.

In our house that would have been a mere hour before they went to bed anyway.

Erm yes. Perfectly reasonable. Pj's / onesies post swimming is exactly what the vast majority do around here post swimming lessons. Probably up until the end of Primary school age.

YANBU.

He's 4.

can you dress him in a clean tracksuit that is comfortable for bed?
ridiculous comment why would you do that, obviously more concerned about what others think than about your 4 year old child.

Been doing this for years - crack on OP!

He's 4, it's fine

This is what I do with mine, most of the other mum's at swimming do as well, no point in getting them dressed to go home and put pjs on 2 hours later really.