Care label says ‘mother can do it’

[MotherCanDoIt]

Raging but being laughed off by others when I’ve shown it so I’d like opinions please! School uniform care labels says ‘or give it to your mother she knows how to do it’.

as pointed out, the parent will read the label, not the child, since when does a school child look at washing labels.

@AbsolutelyPatsy

as pointed out, the parent will read the label, not the child, since when does a school child look at washing labels.

Names are usually written/seen on or near to labels, and sizes are usually adjacent to laundry instructions. So, with sweaters and cardigans, pupils are potentially reading labels to see whose is whose quite a lot.

Written/sewn^

I'm sure my dd can't be the only child who does her own laundry. It's one of the easiest tasks for kids to take on, surely? So yes, my dd does read the labels, that's what we taught her to do.

Update- after showing senior management. Interestingly there was a split between female SLT and male SLT, former was equally appalled latter was split between laughter/disbelief. We’ll see what happens next!

Well done for raising it, OP!

Well done OP!

Well done on raising this! It's the "little" things like this that add up to enable sexism to continue. If we don't chip away at the little things we have no hope of dealing with the big things.

Thanks for reporting back. I still can’t get my head around why a school uniform manufacturer would feel the need to add this sort of thing to their clothes, which are not marketed on the basis of being quirky or edgy. What a waste of time and money, especially when the actual care instructions are on another label!

You raised it with the school? Don't you think they have rather a lot of other things to worry about at the moment?

It’s quite funny but it could easily say “mum or dad” which would be better. Or “an adult”

People have got such a rod up their arse these days.

All comedy will be outlawed soon for fear of upsetting anyone.

It’s a really funny joke, if you find casual sexism really funny.

Well done for raising it OP.

that's ridiculous

It's not that funny though, is it? To my mind it's one step away from "Give it to your mother, she should be doing the laundry anyway" or "Don't ask Papa for aid, for he is likely to be too busy reading the newspaper"

It’s quite funny but it could easily say “mum or dad” which would be better. Or “an adult”

It absolutely could have done, but then I think people wouldn’t find it funny. The casual sexism is what people find amusing.

And it's not being a killjoy wanting to stamp out all humour. It's about being fed up to the back teeth with this kind of lazy stereotyping. Would it still be funny if it said, "Give it to the Chinese laundry them do velly velly good job?" It's on a par with that in my mind - no need for it.

[quote MyDcAreMarvel]**@DaisyWaldron* horrible for kids who don't have a mother, or who have a mother who can't care for her child in that way. you do realise it’s written to the mother of the child and is referring to their* mother. School children are not known for washing their own uniforms.[/quote]
As my mother died when I was a teenager, a message to her on a washing label in my uniform would have been both difficult to show her and for her to act on.

Maybe, I could have taken it to the local crematorium's garden of remembrance and showed it to her fucking ashes.

I washed my own uniform.

You do understand what DEAD means?

@SilverGoblin as I said you would not have been the intended reader. Whoever was caring for you when your mother passed away should have been washing your uniform. Maybe your anger should be at them not at unknown mumsnet poster.

@MyDcAreMarvel

You may opt not to teach your kids practical skills, like doing laundry, but loads of parents do. And sometimes kids have to develop life skills whether their parents teach them or not, because of bereavement, divorce, illness and disability, or many other reasons.

Your response to @SilverGoblin is disgusting, btw.

[quote MyDcAreMarvel]@SilverGoblin as I said you would not have been the intended reader. Whoever was caring for you when your mother passed away should have been washing your uniform. Maybe your anger should be at them not at unknown mumsnet poster.[/quote]
I think @SilverGoblin is posting AS a mother (as a huge proportion of us here are).

Please stop being so insensitive and unpleasant.

@SilverGoblin You tell certain types of people “I was bereaved as a a teenager…” and they lack the imagination to realise you carried in growing after that and are now a mother washing school uniforms. Pay no attention.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I think it's funny - it's a joke!