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Son hates dressing up today will be awful

77 replies

Inliverpool1 · 07/03/2019 07:46

Do I persuade him to wear the hat in the cat costume I’ve bought against his better judgement or sending him in uniform knowing everyone else will be dressed up.
This nonsense raises my blood pressure every bloody year

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ReanimatedSGB · 07/03/2019 08:14

Oh goody, another chance to present my favourite costume idea...

Keep your child off school
Tell the teacher they came in dressed as Harry Potter wearing his invisibility cloak.

Georgiemcgeorgeface · 07/03/2019 08:15

My DS was the same. O let him wear none uniform but just his normal clothes. He once took a nectarine and went as 'name' and he normal sized nectarine. Don't force him and don't worry about it, he won't be the only one x

ShatnersWig · 07/03/2019 08:15

Parents on average spend more on World Book Day costumes than they do on books.

BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning.

What a fucking sad state of affairs.

ShatnersWig · 07/03/2019 08:16

Keep your child off school. Tell the teacher they came in dressed as Harry Potter wearing his invisibility cloak

Thief SGB! Although my version was always a bit more highbrow and they should go as The Invisible Man by HG Wells.

KingMash · 07/03/2019 08:16

My DS refused to dress up so usually went in school uniform, he often wasn't the only one

Springwalk · 07/03/2019 08:23

Another one here, dd hates dressing up, so is in jeans and hoodie. I really don't support forcing children to dress up.

Clutterbugsmum · 07/03/2019 08:25

I always told mine that they can go as anything they like as long as we can make it from what we have.

DS is Percy Jackson - orange T shirt, jeans . He's 9 years

DD Amy from 39 Clues - T shirt, jeans and crossover bag. - 11 years

I refuse to spend a fortune on an 'outfit' they will never wear again.

Maladicta · 07/03/2019 08:26

Mine have never liked dressing up so over the years we've had Harry and his Dinosaurs, muggles, easiest one was probably covering a cardboard star with tin foil, putting a plaster on it then sending dd in her own clothes as Laura from Laura's Star.

Today ds3 has his normal clothes, a Camp Half-Blood t-shirt cobbled together last night and scar drawn on his cheek to be Luke Castellan from Percy Jackson.

Lo-fi all the way...

Hoppinggreen · 07/03/2019 08:26

DS loves dressing up and is Sherlock Holmes but a lot of the boys at his school just go in football kit
They had an author in a few years ago who’s name escapes me who writes mysteries involving a football team so most kids have one of his books !
Teen dd is disgusted with the whole thing and has just gone in her uniform

disappear · 07/03/2019 08:28

Red t-shirt, jeans, saucepan and wooden spoon - George of the Marvellous Medicine.

Or don't dress up. There are times in life when you have to do things that you don't want to do but World Book Day isn't one of them.

manicinsomniac · 07/03/2019 08:28

Posting live from an age 3 - 13 school here (yes, I know - shocking!) - we've got the whole spread from hugely elaborate costumes to jeans and hoodies (though every child I've asked so far has known which jeaned and hoodied book character they are representing). One or two in uniform too.

Stevienickssleeves · 07/03/2019 08:40

"Parents on average spend more on World Book Day costumes than they do on books.

BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning."

Library books are a thing

I only got books for christmas as a kid but i read everything the library had.

3out · 07/03/2019 08:41

It’s supposed to be fun. If anyone doesn’t want to wear a costume then that’s totally fine.

maddening · 07/03/2019 08:42

Normal clothes and a bucket with some dinosaurs-harry and his bucket of dinosaurs ? Tom Gates? There are loads of books that just require normal clothes

NutElla5x · 07/03/2019 08:43

If he's happy to stand out from the crowd by not dressing up, there's absolutely no harm in letting him. He could always bring his outfit to school with him just incase he changes his mind. Next year though,don't waste your time and money on this pointless event unless you are sure he wants to participate.

maddening · 07/03/2019 08:43

We have 2 onesies - tiger (tiger who came to tea) and a monkey (monkey puzzle) have you anything like that

ShatnersWig · 07/03/2019 08:45

@Stevienickssleeves You do know how many libraries have closed over the last decade or so? Fucking fuck tonnes.

jaseyraex · 07/03/2019 08:46

DS absolutely won't dress up either. I've tried but it's not worth the tears and meltdowns. We've gone for Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs. Normal clothes, sandcastle bucket with dinosaurs chucked in Grin

Runningbutnotscared · 07/03/2019 08:46

I made a small book called ‘sons name likes adventures’ and stuck some pictures of him doing things in it.
So he is a character from a book, he is himself.
He’s very pleased with it.

x2boys · 07/03/2019 08:49

Bloody hate world book day I thought all this nonsense had finished now ds1_is at high achool, but no ds, school.thought it would be great fun for years 7,8and 9 to dress up as a character from their favourite book, Hmm some of those 14 year olds will be six foot tall, God help the parent s!

sackrifice · 07/03/2019 08:52

No to dressing up.
Surely by not dressing up, he is going as a blank exercise book?

MeltyTalented · 07/03/2019 08:55

DS wasn't fussed unless I bought a costume which I refused to do - we can't afford £10-£15 quid for the sake of one day when there are plenty of ideas I could have knocked up from things we have at home. He has gone in uniform.

The stupid thing is for some reason they are also asking for donations to a charity thats not even relevant to reading. People will spend £££ on a costume and send in £1 for the charity Hmm

Stevienickssleeves · 07/03/2019 08:56

@shatnerswig council cutbacks, not because people dont use them. My family uses the library loads

Bunnylady53 · 07/03/2019 08:56

DD10 gets very anxious generally & things like World Book Day can cause arguments/upset. She had said she would just go non uniform but then decided to dress up as Geek Girl, even though you can’t tell!

twosoups1972 · 07/03/2019 08:58

I feel your pain!

And this fucking bollocks doesn't stop at secondary school either. My Year 7 dd who is ASD, has gone as Violet somebody from a Series of Unfortunate Events. Had to source dress and cardigan from Ebay, had to straighten her (curly) hair and of course she wants it perfect and it's all my fault if it isn't.

Could do without the fucking stress Angry