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 ?

My best friend used to do this. He definitely had pyjamas, he was just a lazy bastard that couldn’t be arsed getting dressed in the morning so he’d sleep in his uniform. He did always look a bit grubby and unkempt. Definitely not impoverished but did have a single Mum who worked long hours so she didn’t realise he was such a scruffy teenager .

Some kids are just lazy swines. I wouldn’t accept it either from my DC and do think it’s scruffy but I don’t think it’s necessarily a sign of poverty.

I did used to know a woman who lived in a tiny cramped flat in London on benefits so they struggled. She had possibly the grubbiest flat and children I have ever seen. They had no sheets on the mattresses which was just obscene to me, it wouldn’t surprise me if her children slept in their uniform. Their uniform shirts were always grey.

When I was 7 I did this for a few nights so I didn't have to wake up early in the morning. I was lazy and liked my sleep!

A fire alarm got everyone up in the night though and I had to try and think fast to explain my dressed state to my parents. They didn't buy it and were quite grossed out so never did it again...

I tried having my breakfast before I went to bed to save time. It didn't work

I wouldn't do it personally, but I can't get that agitated about it. I could judge your poor spelling and grammar if I was mean spirited but I try not to be.

@SiliconHeaven haha could of had your dinner for breakfast.... made me giggle x

SiliconHeaven, that's brilliant! Next you'll be waking up half an hour before you go to sleep :-).

QuizzyBear, I can just imagine a seven year old doing that, children are so logical sometimes!

When my children were a bit younger if I'd put them in their school uniform for bed it was liable to have porridge on it before school.

We have dressed them in leggings and t-shirts if getting an early flight, but changed them at the airport.

This woman has 2 children who are still in nappies and the nappies are changed in the morning so it's not the case the children are wearing the same underwear for 12+ hours. Yes it states that this suits her life right now, but that is partly because her one child gets very anxious with the morning routine, especially getting dressed.

My child doesn't have anxiety like this but I'd still never be able to get her washed and dressed in 10 mins, nevermind getting 2 children ready.

Your kids are obviously exceptionally well behaved if you can get them sorted out in 10 mins, but other children aren't necessarily as compliant especially those with anxiety issues.

The thing is the kids will grow up scruffy now. Not seeing the need to wake up and wash etc. So grim

Reasonably thinking kids can wash the night before and be OK. But you change out of pyjamas and into a clean uniform in the morning.

Washing in the evening is perfectly fine imo. But they obviously need pyjamas and fresh clothes in the morning.

But: I really do think that focusing excessively on cleanliness and appearances is unhealthy and potentially just as damaging as not enough cleanliness.

It’s not just lazy, it’s friggin disgusting.

Yeah that’s just grim

Craving cheese has already suggested it - silk pillowcases. Miracle workers for fine hair 😁

It’s disgraceful. My kids don’t shower in the morning but in the evening before bed every other night. Poor kids of lazy parents.

Totally agree! Seriously needs to sort her time keeping and parenting skills out! It’s almost akin to the chavs in their dressing gowns in the school run!

@Whatwillbetheendofus

So you were in her flat
And saw that her children were in a filthy flat and sleeping on mattresses with no sheets.

You make no mention of getting in contact with social services. But I bloody hope you did

I’ve read similar before and it was a high flying lawyer she would just wake kids up and feed them chocolate in the car and give them gum before they went in! It’s grim!! Saying that we have a bath before bed and just a quick lick and promise in the morning so I suppose some think that’s from

Is this what Mumsnet has become? I didn't think it would continue to attract dregs but it seems that it has.

This didn't need asking AIBU, most people wouldn't do this but then again, most posters wouldn't think of asking such a goady question-that-doesn't-require-an-answer.

What a thigh-rubbing life you must lead, OP, to get your jollies from this sort of tripe. Same to those who've indulged you with your nasty nonsense. Urgh.

One of the aspects of parenting that makes me most happy is when my children are washed head to toe, clean hair, clean soft pjs, clean bedding and full tums.

The clean comfy pjs are intrinsic to that satisfaction!

Never heard the likes before! I had 4 children in less than 5 years because that was the way I wanted. My daughter has massively curly hair but even so, all 4 had a bath before bedtime and went to bed in pyjamas. They were all up, dressed in clean uniform and had cooked breakfast before school. (no breakfast club in those days). As I said, I wanted mine close together and knew it was going to be full on. There is no way I'd have put them to bed in the next days clothes. I don't know the story of these children but maybe Mum hadn't planned her family and was out of her depth.

Once we all slept in our service uniform because a technical evaluation was due and we had to report for duty at a moments notice in the middle of the night in full uniform. Our squad was determined to be first.. Guess what!... The cadets beat us to it. Little f**rs🤣🤣🤣

That made me laugh,Sprokermum, I can just hear the competition in your voice.

@user1480880826 to be fair to OP I have to do similar to my DD's hair although I douse it with detangling leave in conditioner otherwise its a tangled matted mess, she pulls her bobbles out of her plaits when she goes to bed. If I sent her to school with knotty hair I'd be pulled in as it's in the uniform policy that hair must be neat and hair below shoulder length must be put up. If she were a boy with shorter hair then yes I'd probably not have to brush it as much, not sexism, just making your children presentable for school. Can you imagine your child going school/childcare setting with a knotty mess of hair every day and everyone thinking their parents don't take care of them?

In response to PPs, I have to wash my hair once or twice a week, it's healthy and waist length, virgin hair and I don't use heat on it. It's fine being washed so little. My mother's hair is fine and thin and she has to wash daily or it looks a mess and is greasy. Different hair types require different hair care routines and they're not really anyone else's concern of you don't understand those differing needs. Some of you may be shocked that people with type 3/4 hair rarely wash it at all and do so in between protective hair styles. Oh the horror.

OP, younger kids not bathing in the morning is fine as long as face and teeth cleaned, but sleeping in clothes seems really silly, yes smaller children don't sweat but uniform would get so wrinkled, I don't see the point