Nursery: Christmas jumper

[Ny24]

AIBU?

So my DC is 2 yrs old and in Nov/Dec got a heap of Christmassy type clothes. Some very obviously Christmas (Santa jumper), some more fair isle type stuff. I bought quite alot of things and so did family - e.g my Mum bought 3 jumpers etc etc. So there is genuinely a lot of it but it all got worn from end of Nov through to New Year but obviously still in very good condition.

Some of the stuff I bought was really lovely and not that cheap - it was from John Lewis and JoJo etc but for me, I always think well lovely clothes for pics over the Christmas period and then it's stuff that can be worn for nursery till it gets wrecked/no longer fits.

So this morning did drop off at nursery and the staff member made a point of saying 'oh a Christmas jumper' quite disparagingly..... to be honest the jumper they went in with today wasn't 'that Christmassy' - it was a red fair isle jumper with small robins on it. But I do fully intend to send DC in with their Santa jumper in the coming weeks.

To be honest, I don't really care - given the tatt and thread bare leggings and stained tops I see other kids sent in wearing, a child going in wearing a lovely warm, clean, non-stained, albeit 'Santa' jumper isn't something I'm going to lose sleep over. It's nursery - clothes get wrecked. They fit. They're good quality - they can be worn for nursery until the weather gets warmer is my attitude. I'm not judging the monstrosity of outfits I see other people sending their kids in because I completely get it - it's nursery - and everything comes home with paint and tomato sauce and glitter all over it.

But I just wondered is this an eye rolling what the hell is that mother playing at - type of thing? Or would most of you just think the same - clearly got a lot of Christmas clothes, it's nursery, the child is 2yrs old - of course it makes sense for the child to wear them?

Or would you be secretly judging me thinking I'm very unreasonable? I'm genuinely planning on my DC getting full use out of these clothes for nursery till March! So be honest - I want to know what I'm up against! Haha.

She doesn't need to see her GP. Gosh what an exaggeration.

In six years of dropping my kids off at nursery I’ve seen pyjamas and tutus and dinosaur onesies, I don’t think nursery staff could care less what kids wear, they’re just happy if it’s vaguely weather-appropriate and you’ve remembered spare pants in their bag.

Who knows what’s going for anyone else though - maybe you misinterpreted the staff member’s tone, or maybe she’d spent that morning arguing with her kids that they couldn’t wear a Christmas jumper to school and that came through in her face, or she was thinking oh no that looks like a really nice jumper and this mum is going to be mad if the kid gets paint all over it. Or you’re right and she disapproves of a Christmas jumper in January, in which case…truly who cares? I bought my 4 year old get a spiderman Christmas jumper he saw in a charity shop and he’s already announced “Spiderman is for all the year” so he’ll apparently be wearing that right through to Christmas 2024.

To say to someone wearing a Christmas jumper that they are wearing a Christmas jumper is judgy? People working in nurseries often comment on what toys kids have or what they are wearing or their new hair cut. It's communicating, do you think children should be welcomed in silence?

The OP is judging what they wear or she wouldn't be commenting in a negative way, she might not care or then again she might but she is definitely judging.

So funny that you are pulling @SheIIieB up and accusing her of being judgy and insisting the OP isn't when OP was being negative and @SheIIieB wasn't.

DS1 had a Santa costume for his first Christmas. He would NOT take it off. I bought two spare ones as he insisted on living in it until March. I got stopped by people in the street telling me I was cruel. i got told off by nursery. I didn't care. He was happy and no one was harmed, unless the sartorially traumatised locals count!

Mine keeps wearing them until they don't fit. I hate the idea of wasting clothes. They aren't adults and can put them away for next year.

Yes this.. I wouldn't do it but wouldn't care if you did.

I'd either think they had nothing else to wear or a tantrum was brewing about not wearing the Christmas jumper so you let them.

OP said the comment from the nursery staff was disparaging, so yes, judgy.

Maybe because Shellie’s tale of a baby in Halloween clothes all year sounds farfetched.

I'm really surprised so many posters on here wouldn't let their children wear a jumper in January just because they deemed it Christmassy.

My dc dress themselves, none of it goes well together but I pick my battles if one wants to wear a reindeer top, one a children in need top or a Disney princess dress then that's what they go in. As long as they arrive in something I don't think nursery care.

Im wearing a Christmas jumper today as it’s cosy. Literally do not care what it has on it. Clean appropriate clothes are clean appropriate clothes.

You're not bothered - but you started a thread.

You're not judging - but you use disparaging vocabulary to describe other children's clothes "tatt", "monstrosity".

My 2 yr old went into nursery in a reindeer top and snowman socks today. She'll have outgrown them by next year, and neither aren't nice enough to resell so she'll wear them until they don't fit.

I wouldn’t think twice about it, my 4yr old in reception has worn his skeleton outfit for every non-clothes day at school this year. Including the Christmas party!

Careful admitting such scandalous things there's people on this thread who apparently now think you've no other clothes.

Told off by nursery? LMAO (at the nursery, not you!). Have they not encountered small children before?!

I won't put on anything Christmassy once the kids are back at school but I don't tend to buy much (and for myself also) as I've learned my lessons on other years. I find once January is here you start thinking of spring. I've bought next year's Christmas stuff in the next sale so that's sorted already and I make sure they always get more than one year out of them but obviously that totally depends on your child's age . However no one should have passed a comment on your DCs jumper

Interesting that you’ve told another poster that it might help if they read the OP, when you haven’t read my post properly before replying…

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If i could be arsed to think anything at nursery drop-off time (come on its a bit early for all that), I'd assume that somewhere, a tired mum had simply allowed a child to carry on wearing the jumper they really love! I've had those arguments with toddlers over appropriate clothing. They are pointless arguments. As long as kids are warm and clean, what they wear to nursery really doesn't matter.

As an adult I have plenty of clothes to wear. I bought a Christmas sweatshirt to wear to Christmas events this year. It's warm and serviceable and I intend to keep wearing it during the winter.

My dc is wearing a christmas jumper today too to nursery and will be as long as it's cold and it Still fits. To be honest I'd judge someone for not dressing up their kids in comfortable and weather appropriate clothes just because it's the wrong season for the design. What a waste at a time when you go through so many clothes anyway. It's not like he'll fit into it next christmas

Robins aren't just for Christmas!

I would keep sending them in wearing them if the child is happy with it. My DC wear their Christmas pyjamas all year around because they like them.

Personally I do the same as a few PPs - keep them, sell them on Vinted in autumn, buy new ones from vinted in autumn. Rather than buying expensive new clothes to wear for Christmas and then sending them to nursery after Christmas to be trashed.

My dd2 is wearing a xmas jumper dress today. Its a fair aisle style from jojo has robins on it but xmas trees too. I don't think anything of it. It definitely won't fit her next year so I want her to get wear out of it. Like your child she will probably still be wearing it in March because its chilly where we are. I bought it last January in the sales.

Yanbu but should have said something like, 'yes making sure we get plenty of wear out of it'.

Obvious Christmas clothes (Santa, Christmas trees etc) I'd do for another week max. Fair Isle type stuff for the rest of winter, no problem. A top with a robin on, fine for winter.
I don't even let my kids wear Christmas PJs in the house after January. They get put away for next year (I always buy PJs a size up for this reason)
Older kids xmas clothes have been handed down to the youngest. Then they are given to other family members, friends or donated.