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 ?

You wash your kids hair every morning?

If it works for her then who are you to judge?

Hmmm I’ve never heard of this.

But I’m contemplating getting in tomorrow’s running clothes as I’m a bit inspired by the laziness being sleep deprived and all. Lol.

Not my kids though as I think day clothes arner comfortable room sleep in.

Oh my God, yuck, no

@faffooo I certainly wouldn't judge you for doing this! It's all about putting your children first, and you are clearly doing that. Big difference between that and laziness! Good luck

I would never. Just get up that extra half an hour and get your act together I say. DD has very relaxed mornings (does wonders for her mood). Up at 6:30am, I don't get her ready until 7:45am and thats done in 20 minutes and then its back to relaxing for another half hour before we leave.

It’s not so much that she decides to dress her kids the night before, it’s more that this is worthy of a newspaper report.
What’s next breakfast the night before too?

“If it works for her” doesn’t make it sanitary though. Having just one outfit and never changing it ever would be the most convenient and time saving option which would “work for” everyone (if you overlook stink factor and disease) but no one does that strangely and I wonder why?

I had to do this in primary school. I was a bed wetter and too scared to tell my mum I’d ruined the outfit.

It takes me 10 mins to get ready myself and I always had the kids clothes laid out, they bathed or showered at night though. We always got up at 8am and left by 8.35 for school

It wouldn't work for us. DD is potty trained but still sleeps in a nappy at night (she's 2),guarenteed every morning she's wet. No matter what nappy is used. So for her, going out in the previous nights clothes would mean a very soggy walk to nursery and probably a visit from SS if it continued!

I actually can't believe this....never heard of it before. It's awful.

My main issue with this would be that school trousers can't be comfy to sleep in. My 2 young children have a bath at night. There's only so early I can get them to bed (after I finish work) so I like them to lay in as much as possible in the morning. Neither stays asleep if I get up so there's no option for me to get myself ready before they get up. So we all lay in til the last possible minute, so they don't get so tired and cranky. They do wear pjs for bed and get dressed for school/pre school after they've had breakfast.

I used to do it though, years ago when I worked with horses and lived on site in a mobile home. Which was bloody freezing in winter. I'd gave a shower after work, then dress in the first layer of the next days clean clothes and go to bed. I was only mucking out and riding etc at work though so no issues of being crumpled!

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

Really? Where? When?

That is the definition of bone idle. I'm astounded

Where is this being recommended?

So lazy!!!

No, obviously that's hideous but @Sweetpeach3, I'm a bit worried about your daughter's hair. The daily wash and condition routine you're describing isn't normal by a very long shot.

Is it naturally frizzy, curly or wavy? If so then you need to adopt the curly girl method.

Can you give details?

I do this when we have an early morning flight, to maximize sleep time. Just put your shoes on and go.

10 minutes to wash, dress and sort two kids out??! What do you have Children or Robots? They must be very compliant. Nobody has ever got mine sorted in that amount of time.

I think it’s weird to dress children the night before, but I don’t personally think young children need a shower or bath in the morning either.

Too lazy to get up with enough time to sort out her kids properly.

Beyond grim.

Ooh, one of the mums at my DC’s school does this, it came up in conversation a while back. Apparently it saves her time in the mornings. She’s got 2 young kids too. What newspaper was this in?

It was all a bit weird.
And I don’t quite get the saving time argument either - surely you have to either change nappies or get the kid to go to the toilet first thing anyway, so incorporating a full change of clothes into that doesn’t add that much time into things?

My DC have only ever slept in their clothes if we’ve done something daft like gone away on holiday and forgotten to pack pyjamas.

Also OP, about the hair thing, whenever I’ve had long hair I’ve always plaited it before going to bed, that usually stops it getting too tangled during the night.

I know a woman who does this as she works such intensive hours that it's the only way she gets to more of her children in the morning before work.
Many people bathe in the evening as they wouldn't want to put their dirty body on their bedsheets. This keeps the sheets cleaner for longer. So washing in the morning does not make you hygienically superior.
You spelled imagine wrong... We can judge people for a whole manner of things. Why not just let people do as they please if it's not harming anyone

It's odd, but I'm a bit meh about it tbh.
Last thing at night, or first thing in the morning- it's not important in the big scheme of things.

Sorry to be Queen Cliché, but there are children in this world that will never know clean water. Not for drinking, washing, or bloody looking at.

That's what we need to get fucked off about.

I once did this as a kid! So that I got some extra time in bed.

When I told my mum as an adult she told me she did the same sometimes as a kid too!