To think dressing kids the night before in the next day clothes is lazy?

[Sweetpeach3]

Just read it in the paper and I think "how fucking lazy can you be"
It states it's because it suits her life right now. She has 2 young kids- so do I but I have them fed. Up and washed and changed by 8/8.30 of a morning I don't see the problem?
I couldn't imagen going out in clothes I'd slept in an not having a shower to wake myself up an feel clean! Specially my DD hair if it's not washed if a morning she looks like she's been hit by a hurricane and nothing. I mean NOTHING sorts that shit out other then a proper shampoo and condition!!
Takes 10 mins to wash dress and sort 2 kids out if you put effort into it I just get up half an hour earlier to get myself ready then by the time I'm done I hear them slowly rise....
. Have your clothes ready the night before obviosuly but that's it. Imagen going out in creased sweaty clothes you'd slept in?? What on earth or am I missing something ?

Do people really do this?

Obviously a young baby is different, especially if they are just being taken out on a school run or something, because they are always just in baby grows anyway.

But people don't really put their children in the next day clothes the night before do they?!

@BarrenFieldofFucks I don't know, babies dribble and spit up and pee and poop, unless they are ill or something the morning change is the one i never miss

Actually so is the bedtime one. But then I'm a freak who baths or showers twice most days. I hate to think I might smell

You tuber Jordan Page does this.

She has 6 kids. They get bathed and dressed for the next day and go to bed. All their clothes are casual type.

I understood how she managed to get them out the door after that.

I dont really think it takes 10 minutes to shower/wash hair and dress for two children either though, but it definitely makes you appear more superior.

It's not just lazy, it's proper minging. You'd be all sweaty and grim smelling.

Only time we’ve done it is when we’re going on safari and need to leave at 4am.

I don't believe this. Whatever newspaper it is is making stuff up.

We did this for a short while when DD was little and went through a stage of being very difficult in the morning.
Baths are always in the evening.
Nothing wrong with a bit of laziness, especially when you're sleep deprived and only just coping

I rarely get judgy about other parents, I mean life's too short, but that is rank. Tomorrow I will get a reception age child and 2x toddlers out the door by 7.10am, like always! It is a bit stressy but not that hard.

Not something I would do.

I don’t wash DD in the mornings generally apart from if she comes in the shower with me but I’d never dress her in the clothes she’s wearing the night before as she’d get all sweaty and crumpled. I find that very weird.

I'll do it for myself if I'm having a 4am start and a train trip - bath at night, dress in tracksuit or yoga pants and sweatshirt so I can fall out of bed, grab the stockbags and get on the train - but I have event clothes and washbag packed so I can have a wipedown and change when I get there.
Also it's not a problem so much with babies as you really just change their clothes whenever they mess them up and/or once a day.

But if this is about school age DC then I don't think it's a terribly good idea. School uniform is not very comfortable to sleep in, is it?

It's horrible! I can't imagine it. There must be more sanitary ways to be lazy, surely?

Urgh, sounds vile.

But do you really wash her hair every morning? There's no way my hair would be washed, conditioned and dried (or even just dried) in 10 minutes.

Btw, to those saying that washing in the morning is a must.... You are aware that there are various cultures (and obviously people) that wash in the evening?

Whoever has done this probably has a fungal infection and scabies.

Maybe trench foot and some chronic armpit itching too.

Who is this person?

For little kids clothing and pajamas are virtually indistinguishable. nice soft stretchy cotton seems to be the style of choice for day and night. We also prefer to shower at the end of the day, so the dirt of the day is washed away and not brought into bed.

Unless you wash your bedding as often as you would your clothes, it’s massively unhygienic.

Think of all the dead skin cells that are in your bed. They sit there for a week before you change the sheets. You are transferring that on to clean clothes every time you lay in it.

There’ll be dust mites all over the poor sods.

We wash in the evening here. I cannot go to bed with the sweat and dirt of the day on me. Then roll around and get my bed sheets dirty too. I could never go to bed without showering and washing first

Wait, what?

I have definitely done this in my early twenties though... In between a very late night and a very early shift

Disgusting. Poor kids.

I've often seen this given as a tip on MN to make life easier for full time working mums

How lazy.
I had my lot washed dressed and eaten and out the door by 7.10 each day. I just had to make sure I was in bed at 10 so I could get up. Kids went to bed by 7.30
I got up at 5.45 showered dressed made breakfast and got them up. It's not rocket science.

I remember Sheryl Sandberg writing about it in her book, Lean in. Not sure if she did it herself. Well she is a millionaire isnt she so maybe it s worth a go? :)

She probably has a cleaner to put fresh sheets on everyday.

Not to mention that your knickers will be 12hours+ on how long you’d normally have them on for

My child is autistic and she finds this a great solution to her school anxiety, a factor of which is getting dressed in the morning.its very damaging to judge others when they've found a creative solution. Fine so it's not something you would do but for others whose lives are very difficult it's a positive and calm way around it. My dd washes and changes into clothes at night. So much calmer now after the nightmare of school refusal and stress.

I couldnt agree more OP. I have read abt parents putting kids to bed in school uniform. I mean how bloody uncomfortable and disgusting. I think it's beyond laziness.