What do you think of this family house rule?

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People in the house are not allowed to come downstairs in the morning without being fully dressed/clean and moderately groomed.

This does not apply to school kids during the week. But at the weekends/school holidays memebers of the household are not allowed to be in pyjamas. They can veg out on the sofa but they have to be groomed and in clean clothes. Trackies are allowed.

Then maybe vacuum more?

I'd break that rule every day, I've always been a dressing gown person.

How miserable. Not a relaxing home.

We have a lazy breakfast then get showered and dressed. Not gonna get dressed only to shower and get dressed again!
Batshit

Feels a bit controlling.

Gold star for you and your teens 🌟

🙄

I have a cup of tea in bed most mornings.

It's a nice way to wake up slowly.

Does this rule mean that I'd need to get washed and dressed to go downstairs to make a cup of tea and then get back changed into PJs to have it in bed?

Seems excessive.

The rule is "not allowed to come downstairs" without being dressed and washed. I'm not sure how this has resulted in people saying the OP has a point re: the morals of spending all day unwashed.

I'm guessing they actually sit around doom scrolling.

You would hate my teens and young adults. Spend every moment they’re not out the house in pjs 😆 I really don’t give a crap. They still manage to be smart, kind, funny and independent young people despite the offending nightwear

Me too 😃

Whoever set this rule has a control problem.
I will leave that house ASAP, husband or kids as soon as they can
Why the person setting this ridicoulous rule opinion is the only valid one?

Ewwww, no, you'd need to get a clean pair for the 20 minutes of tea drinking, anything less is grim. Vile in fact .

Sounds controlling and almost a bit like how I imagine the royal family live. Suffocating and stifling.

I like a good lazy day like the next person. Snow day or sick day, I stay in my PJs, however, on the regular, I get dressed before going down to eat or fix meals, primarily because I don't like to get food on my PJs as I tend to wear them a few nights in a row. I shower before bed, get into my clean PJs and clean sheets/bedding, so I don't want to wear grubby PJs to bed. In the morning, I wake, get dressed and then come down to cook food and make coffee.

I grew up this way and it was not controlling at all, just what was done. My kids do the same, but again, it wasn't a 'rule' just that they followed my and my husband's ways.

Setting a rule like being ready, dressed and teeth brushed by 9.30/10 is reasonable. If common sense is used when there is a lie in or illness etc.
But before being allowed downstairs seems uncomfortably restrictive

Absolutely batshit

We have spent many Christmas days in just our pyjamas!

Whatever you want in your own home tbh. However my person feelings are they are Dracoian but each to their own

If you have a stinky, hairy slob living with you that needs rules then fair enough but otherwise it’s a bit much to monitor

Teens don’t need to be moaned at for such trivial things. Enforcing those rules on young people on the cusp of adulthood is odd and controlling. They need some autonomy but can’t even decide when to get dressed.

I live in a bungalow so I’m unable to come downstairs still in pyjamas. I win at this rule !

It takes more than five minutes to get clean and dressed in the morning.

If they are clean when they go to bed at night and have clean pyjamas they should be reasonably socially acceptable when they get up. If indeed everyone is up in the morning at weekends and on days off, many people like a lie in.

Does this mean I can't drop my kids off at the local council school in my pj's any more, then go to the fuel station to buy my fags? That's harsh.

I'm guessing teens don't get up that early :-). Mine certainly didn't, neither did I, when there was no school or work to go to.