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 ?

I’ve done this when the dc were little and we had to leave the house at eg 4am for a flight. No real difference between leggings and a t-shirt and PJs.

As a daily occurrence it would be a bit odd I think but really not as bad as some posters make out.

Lazy is an understatement.

Fuck no. Just no. Kids sweat in the night. Just grim.
How lazy can someone be? Wow

I recently saw a YouTube video about night time routines. Think the youtuber is funcheaporfree? But anyway she get all her kids to get showered and then into school clothes to sleep in. I think it is grim.

But then my parents think it's crazy that me and the kids wear clean pjs everynight. When the kids were tiny they would be covered in Weetabix in the mornings. And as an adult I would smell awful if I didn't wear clean pjs. It's like wearing the same knickers 2 days in a row.

Hmmm think there's a whole new market right here......
Onesie in school colours with logo ?

@Ziraphale 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

What do you mean it isn’t normal? I wash and condition my hair daily and did the same with my DDs when they were younger. Why are you worried? My hair and my children’s hair was and still is perfectly fine.

Teens did that in the seventies, shower and dress for school the night before, to get that bit of extra sleep in the morning. I thought they were clever.

I wash and condition my hair daily and did the same with my DDs when they were younger.

@IamWaggingBrenda yiiiikes. No. Unless you're from a family of people with abnormally straight and greasy hair?

Do you at least stay away from stuff with sulfates in?

The outrage here is hilarious!

I've never done this. I don't think I know anyone that has done this.

On the scale of shit parenting, however, this wouldn't even rate for me. I see way worse on the boards ever.single.day

God, surely no one actually does this? So, so depressing

I’m not surprised to read this. I work in childcare and have known parents bring children in who haven’t even changed their nighttime nappy. Just lifted them from the cot, put them in the car and straight to nursery. No time for a cuddle. No milk or breakfast. Just straight to childcare. I don’t judge for many things, but I did judge those parents.

2 kids ready in 10 mins? Aye right

Nobody should wear day clothes to bed, children especially.

It's a fire hazard. Children's pajamas are supposed to be close fitting and even flame resistant.

Clothing intended as day wear isn't suitable for sleeping in for that reason.

Maryann

I used to work as a nanny and found one family in particular never bothered changing their baby even if she had woken at 6, and I walked through the door at 8. Same people wouldn't have given the baby a bottle either, or a drink once she was finished with bottles. She used to be so thirsty in the mornings, and on Mondays would spend the whole morning drinking.

This subject came up on here a few years ago and I was surprised at how many people admitted to doing it

CJsGoldfish

It's often the case that when a parent has crossed one line a good many others have been crossed too.

Well that explains Boris always looking like hes slept in his clothes

I don't see a problem with it. Sure it's lazy. Lazy is not always bad. Better than early morning battles and stress all round.

It isn't something I've done, but I wouldn't rule it out.

I'm surprised at the number of posters who describe children as sweaty and rank after a night in bed. Maybe some kids get that way some of the time. Some don't.

It takes my daughter at least 20 minutes to eat a piece of toast!!

I’m very impressed you can wash and dry your daughters hair and get her dressed in just 10 minutes. Not all children are so compliant though.

I do insist my kids wear pajamas to bed. Every night, they have to get their stuff ready for the next day, brush their teeth and put on PJs.

Each to their own. Just because you can get 2 kids showered and dressed in 10 mins doesn't mean everyone can. I could barely get one kid stripped in that time, as they would be tantruming. One is on the spectrum and all 3 would resist "changing" in the morning.... with them all under 5 it made some things bit easier. Now they are teens we don't, it was a crutch we used to make busy and difficult life easier at the time.

We went through a phase of dressing the kids the night before, they were little, wore leggings and tshirt to bed, changed nappy in morning (and leggings if any leaks). They had showered the night before, were perfectly clean.

There are bigger issues. Kids that go to sleep feeling unsafe, unfed and unloved. Kids that are homeless, that listen to dad beating up mum once they are in bed, kids that witness drug deals. Focus on that, not some parent who is putting a clean child into clean clothes in a clean bed. It's not grim, it's not what you would choose to do, but for them it works.

The hysteria on mumsnet is honestly astounding sometimes.

I wouldn’t did it myself but I can’t bring myself to get so worked up about it.

You all shower in the morning? Or do you all have two showers a day? Because I couldn’t think of anything worse than going to bed at night with the days grossness on me. Your sheets would be rank.

Lucky you all don’t live in a country with major water shortages. Sounds like you would all have an aneurysm.

The problem with this kind of thing is that not only is it very odd and not nice for the kids, but it’s also teaching them some strange lessons about life. You always hear about people who have shit childhoods and don’t really know “what’s normal” in terms of looking after themselves and daily life.

I must admit I used to do this myself in the winter sometimes so that I wouldn’t have to get up out of my lovely warm bed until the last second.

I’ve also fallen asleep doing homework in my uniform as a teenager, then not woken up until it was nearly time to get ready and just thought “fuck it”

Huh...? I used to bath my kids the night before to make it faster in the mornings - they didn't sleep in the day clothes but kids don't smell when they sleep.

Why would kids smell of wee unless they are still in nappies at night?

I can't imagine putting my kids in the next day's clothes the night before, but not showering in the morning is pretty normal--there is no way we have time for morning showers here.