to think you shouldn't dress your children in Boden to go to a playgroup for deprived families?

[WellAmI]

A lady who goes to a homeStart playgroup I go to always has her kids in Boden, which I don't think is fair on the other mum's who can't afford such things like that. The playgroup is especially for deprived families and families in need in other ways so I think she is a bit off to rub our faces in it that she shops in Boden for all her kids when she knows most of the parents and even the staff can't afford to.

I have thought of pointing this out to her and asking her if she would dress them down occasionally but didn't know if she would take it well.

What would you do?

i sometimes go to the surestart group. thats the ones at childrens centres right?

next time i'll dress dd3 in rags.

YABVU.

The Boden dressed children are giving the Poor People's children something to aspire to don't ya know.

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hello, surestart/homestart don't have specific 'areas'. they are all over and anyone who is having a difficult (normal then) time parenting, or just wanting to go to the group, can go.

What her kids are wearing is prob WAY down on the list of priorities. Tea and biccie is top!

Since when has Homestart been specifically for deprived families?

You are a troll. And a pretty shit one at that.
try harder

Expat, boden is deeply recogniseable, even if you're not a clothing-brand groupie. If it has funky stripes, combined with slightly wacky flower patterns, it's boden for sure.

Is widely available in charidee shops in affluent areas. In the optimal scenario you buy it for 99p, have three kids wear it, and then flog it on ebay for £9.50. (True story, and not a one-off either.)

DippyDora - why are you getting so upset? No-one but the OP has suggested that Surestart groups are only for deprived families.
I myself used them while on ML, Dh and I are comfortably off (though dress ds in George at Asda and Tesco clothing not Boden ).
Surestart is open to everyone, under the government scheme "Every Child Matters."

I noticed the OP hasn't made a reappearance

I am not deprived. Yet we were struggling. We were offered to come to the SureStart group, and help from homestart. Not all are "deprived" just struggling.

Who looks at children's clothes?

YABU. Prehaps their GP's buy them.

Because many people are assuming the Boden clothes must have been second hand, which is quite patronising to the people that attend surestart.

There is nothing wrond with secondhand but to automatically assume someone at a surestart group is wearing secondhand because its a label is patroning.

And I'm not upset.

Perhaps the parents buy them needmorecoffee.

See bouncingturtle, no one is 'listening'

I wouldn't know Boden if it bit me on the ar$e. Having said that, i'm after a pair of tarten baggies for Tom but can't decide on a top to go with them.

I need someone who is far articulate than me to come along and try to explin what it is I'm trying to say

It dosent matter if they are new or second hand.

Its peoples assumption that they are second hand which is annoying

I've bought Boden stuff from car boot sales at 20p a pop.How do you know she hasn't done the same?

Why suggest they could be second hand though?
Why make that assumption?

After reading FuriousGeroges post, I give in

I don't think there is an income ceiling on Homestart, is there? The better-off may well require support. People seem to be equating a need for support and material deprivation.

More importantly, where has the OP gone? She's wound everyone up a treat and buggered off.

Sweeping generalisation but a lot of "poorer" people I know spend a hell of a lot more on their children's clothes than I do.

I suspect she has gone off to read the Daily Mail.

i'm still trying to figure out how anyone would know it was Boden, what do they do, turn the labels out of the childrens' clothing?