Feeling awful for sending my 3 year old into nursery not in costume

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I've been so distracted lately I forgot to check the board which said children can dress up if they want to. She's the only one of three not dressed up. And from that I think the other two were dressed up. I feel awful. Am I not distracted enough or is this a bad mum move

Go get her one then?

I wouldn't worry. My 3yo wasn't convinced about mufti day. She wanted to wear her uniform as usual. If she is bothered the nursery might be able tp give her something dress up to put on.

She's already dropped off at nursery. She's having a party at my mums after

Was she bothered/upset by it?

Can you drop a costume off for her to change into?

Hopefully more'll turn up not dressed up.
I asked DS if we wanted to go as batman to nursery but he said no, so he's gone in normal clothes.

If she gets upset I'm sure the teachers will find a dressing up box outfit for her :)

Ah.... If she wasn't already gone I would have asked whether you could simply do a super quick DIY one...

But that's too late, I guess. She may not even mind at all?

The nursery will have a huge selection of dressing up clothes. If she becomes aware of the fact she is not dressed up and she wants to join in the nursery will find her something to wear. Try not to worry about it, it really isn't a huge deal.

As someone whose parents regularly forgot stuff like this (own clothes day, fancy dress, permission slips) relax. I know they were busy and it never impacted me. I do t think they were bad parents or that they should feel guilty at all. They had lots of jiggling to do.

It was 50:50 at nursery for my kid this morning. They had some crowns and bits for those that didn’t come in with something,

Don’t worry

We always used to forget and have to drive to HB and back to nursery with various Pumpkins, Pudsey's and goodness knows what over the years.

My mother once sent me to kindergarten in a costume. On the wrong day... (but it was a gorgeous gorgeous costume.)

I still remember. I was briefly embarrassed, then got changed (kindergarten had xtra clothes) and wore the costume again.... When it as actually 'costume day'. 😅

Didn't seem to have permanently harmed me. So yeah, don't worry OP!

Surely the nursery will find her something from their dressing up stuff if she is upset? These things happen.

Really not a big deal for your DD, I doubt she will notice and feel left out. Plus there’s an easy solution in nursery, the dressing up corner!

Could you ring the nursery and say you completely forgot about her costume could she please wear something from the dressing up box so she's not left out? They might have done that anyway.

It happens. I used to offer them something special from the dressing up clothes but some children don't like dressing up anyway so there's usually one or two still in school uniform/normal clothes.

The nursery will put her in a dressing up costume from the dressing up box, a pair of fairy wings and a doctors telescope later she won’t care!

Really not a big deal for your DD, I doubt she will notice and feel left out.

But the OP hasn't even mentioned whether her DD was upset or not?

That's quite an important bit of info here.

It’s a bit grim for her but at 3 she won’t remember it. Just don’t allow any major Wardrobe fails when she’s 15, that will stay longer

I wouldn't worry too much about it. At that age mine refused to dress up for anything. If they later changed their minds and wanted to join in the nursery had things they could use. We then donated all our dressing up clothes to the nursery once dds had finished with them at home.