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

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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 are the other extreme though op.
You do not have to bath a child at bedtime and them again when you get them up a few hours later . That is ridiculous and I agree you sound obsessive about your children esp daughter looking perfect. Really not a good road to travel for any child.
I agree sleeping in clothes is not a good idea but being too fastidious is not a good idea either.

Takes 10 mins to wash dress and sort 2 kids out if you put effort into

you sound amazing, OP.

It's a sign of neglect. Five of the six Philpott children were found wearing either school uniform or regular clothes. Only one child was in proper nightwear.

@Likethebattle You pretty much hit the nail on the head when you said it gets greasy quickly.

The reason for this is usually over-shampooing. Washing your hair daily stimulates the glands in your scalp to keep producing more and more sebum. You're trapped in a vicious circle.

On the curly hair thing.... My ds 2, has a head full of beautiful curls. Never wash it every day is it would wreck his hair and dry it out, I also only ever brush it after washing.... Finger brushing only after that, or he ends up looking like a mad scientist.... And as for a hairdryer..... NOPE.

@Ziraphale no it’s because I have very fine hair once it gets greasy it shows more easily. Anyway I’m happy with my lovely clean, nice smelling hair so I’ll do what suits me.

Surely the clothes get crumpled and creased during the night? Well unless the child barely moves all night which seems unlikely.

I could never just get up and go out. I have a shower every morning and, yes, I am another who washes their hair every day. It's short and sticks out all angles in the mornings.

I have been washing my hair every day since I was 14. I am now in my 60's. My hairdresser says my hair is in excellent condition and she can't get over how thick it is.

@CravingCheese it's growing quickly it's Past her shoulders when it's wet but not enough to plait the full thing as it's same length all over and I'm not that good and she doesnt sit long enough haha x

It's beyond lazy. I knew someone that used to do it with just the kid's underwear, which is bad enough.

Lol at two kids ready in ten minutes 🙄

YANBU sleeping in clothes is gross.

I've done it before, once a year and for a week we'd start work at 4am, used to shower in the evening get changed into tomorrow's clothes so I could roll out of bed at 3:30am. I usually started work at 6:30am but something about having to be up and ready for 4am felt ridiculously early. Also used to do it if I had a night out, would get back at 3am, change into tomorrow's clothes and start work at 6:30am. Getting two kids dressed for 9am doesn't feel the same to me.

But if I put my kids to bed after a bath, and I had put them in clean underwear after the bath (vests...) and because they’re non sweaty toddlers.. I don’t suppose I’m gonna have to put them in new undies in the morning right? I just change their pjs into day clothes in the morning.

To those who are mentioning sweating at night and dead skin I’m now doubting myself!

But then they would be wearing the same underwear for 20+ hours Thats grim

I always shower at night though, wouldn't be able to sleep knowing I'm all dirty and sweaty from the day.

to be honest if it helps people cope there are worse things....

LochJessMonster

I’m guessing that’s responding to me. So you change your undies twice a day? Just curious?

Before bed and after shower? Both vest and pants?

This sounds like poverty tbh.

Yes this mother is trying to pass it off as “convenient” - but it can also be read as the children don’t have other clothes so have to use their school uniform as pyjamas.

Even if the children are younger than school age, they surely need a wash and change of underwear. Grim tbh.

Mine were a lot older than 2 and 3 before they stopped dropping breakfast down themselves, and toothpaste. Getting dressed was always the last thing to do of a morning, not the first. Can't imagine doing this. Surely the kids would be a mess.

I find it a bit odd but I also find it odd that you're pretending you can get two children washed (including their hair), dried and dressed in ten minutes.

But why do they wear underwear to bed full stop?

I heard about this before on MN so I think it is a thing. I’m a single parent I have 4 kids two with disabilities so getting ready in the morning takes a long time but I just could not justify doing this no matter how much time it saves!

I find it a bit odd but I also find it odd that you're pretending you can get two children washed (including their hair), dried and dressed in ten minutes.

Agree with this

How are you managing to shower, wash the hair of, blow dry and dress two kids in ten minutes? You must be superhuman.

Like I said I run the bath whilst their finishing their breakfast then it's literally. In. Shower down. Wash. Shower soap off. Get them both out. Dry them an get them dressed. I have it all ready so yea it doesn't take much time. I don't always dry their hair but if I'm going straight out I will and it only takes a few mins an my Ds has short hair and DD has fine short hair so

Oh god no! Imagine trying to sleep in a skirt, or polyester trousers. And a shirt and tie! Not as preposterous as sleeping on a bare mattress, but reasonably close.

I did do it once as a teen going on holiday with an early start. I had a mullet stiff with gel and hairspray. It was awful, I had to sleep on my back so I didn't flatten one side.

I was actually going to come onto the thread to say children don't sweat until about 5. I then read the thread, saw no-one else had brought it up so googled it and realised I was wrong. I only thought this because a neighbour's child was admitted to hospital with a sky high fever, and his mother told me it was because infants don't sweat, (apparently told this by a HCP).