Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

Flip

1 2 3

Original poster

Have you ever let your dc go to nursery in their pyjamas??

69 replies

nappyaddict · 29/10/2008 23:16

I am having such a battle with getting ds dressed at the moment I am seriously considering it when half term is over.

If you have done it did it actually make them start cooperating to get dressed or did they just want to wear their pjs to nursery and do the total opposite of what you wanted it to?

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Starbear · 30/10/2008 23:08

nappyaddict, He just has a tendency to want to do too many things at once, doesn't listen when I warn him that it's going to end up on the floor. He isn't willful just clumsy and thinks he knows better than me. I'm cross & he knows it..He just doesn't go in the corner for it.

Joolyjoolyjoo · 30/10/2008 23:10

Lol, controlfreeeaky! I applaud your liberal attitude to pet ownership

Original poster

nappyaddict · 30/10/2008 23:11

ah that's different then. i thought you meant that you allow it as in if he does it then you have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. by being cross you are saying actually what you just did isn't ok so the same as me (i think)

OP posts:

Starbear · 30/10/2008 23:31

Yes, just gets the corner for different things. As I have to get to work. He also goes into the corner for not taking medicine as I'm not grapple with a kid, holding his nose and hurting him just to get medicine down him. We had a hour of this one night when he was 2 yrs old and DH was away and he just wouldn't take the stuff to make him feel better. Doesn't go in the corner for water out of the bath yet!

Original poster

nappyaddict · 30/10/2008 23:34

oh we don't do time out or the corner or anything. if it's on that list i just say erm no we don't do that because ..... i think you do the corner for certain things and no we don't do that because .... for other things?

OP posts:

controlfreeeeeakyshrieeeeeky · 30/10/2008 23:35

haven't you watched dirty dancing.....?

NOBODY puts baby in the corner...

Starbear · 30/10/2008 23:38

LOL. I don't remember that bit. My Ds sometimes put himself in the corner when he's being stubborn. I try not to laugh

Acinonyx · 31/10/2008 09:45

We have pretty much the same list nappyaddict.

I wouldn't take dd in her pjs to her CM as she would have to dress her to take her out (different with a nursery where they are just there all day, although I wouldn't do that either) and that doesn't seem fair - and it gives a bad model for the other kids who would probably like to do the same. She usually chooses her clothes though - and sometimes the results are

I carry her coat and she puts it on when she decides to. Of course her CM asks her to put it on before leaving the house and she just does it without question or hesitation! I can't believe how much more authority CM has with dd.

Theladyevenstar · 31/10/2008 22:40

Jeez, I am far to relaxed I thunk, I never had rules for ds1 now 10yrs, he could make as much mess as he wanted and when he was finished he and I would clean it up lol. He could wear what he wanted as well, and fall asleep when he wanted. Still does most nights.

And things are the same with ds2 (1yr)

Theladyevenstar · 31/10/2008 22:40

Think not thunk lol

Original poster

nappyaddict · 31/10/2008 22:45

TLES - i have no problem with ds making mess but would you really not tell them off if they purposely thew their plate of dinner on the floor or purposely kicked a pot of paint over?

OP posts:

Theladyevenstar · 31/10/2008 23:15

Nappy, No i didn't tell ds1 off for throwing his food on the floor when he knew better. I simply got up from the table and picked it up, put it back on his plate and waited for him to eat it. As I am a stickler for washing the floors i had no worries lol. As for the paint i painted with him in the garden or put loadssssssssss of newspaper under where he was. Kids do do things to test us. Hell he is 10 and still tries it on.

DS2 is only 1yr old so he rarely gets told no....except today when he wanted to put the plug in my coffee cup

Original poster

nappyaddict · 31/10/2008 23:22

little bits of food on the floor i don't really mind. it's throwing the whole plate of food on the floor in one swoop that i just can't let go. really you wouldn't care if your ds picked his plate up full of food and just chucked it on the floor? ok at 1 they don't understand that's not what is meant to happen but when they are older and do know it's wrong surely that should be something that is disapproved of?

OP posts:

Theladyevenstar · 31/10/2008 23:30

Nappy, No, if he wanted to throw his food he would either eat it when i picked it up or go to bed without dinner

Original poster

nappyaddict · 01/11/2008 00:06

i was gonna say! i really couldn't imagine anyone not punishing or telling them off for throwing a plate of food on the floor on purpose. i too wouldn't give anything else once it had been chucked on the floor but would also explain why we don't throw our dinner on the floor because i'm not sure if just going to bed without any dinner would tell him he'd done wrong cos the reason he usually does it is cos he doesn't want anything to eat anyway.

OP posts:

Acinonyx · 01/11/2008 08:52

I'm afraid to say I don't think my kitchen floor is quite clean enough for that approach.

Starbear · 02/11/2008 15:33

nappyaddict, What are you going to do tomorrow PJs or not to PJ that is the question?

Moosmummie · 03/11/2008 13:59

er hem No I haven't but I"VE got to nursery in MY pyjamas LOL

Original poster

nappyaddict · 03/11/2008 15:19

no he chose his halloween costume

OP posts:

Flip

1 2 3