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Doing P.E. In just knickers?

260 replies

Radley · 10/11/2006 16:19

DD2 (4) came home and told me that she has done pe for the first time, in just her knickers.

Am I over reacting thinking that this is out of order?

Also, DD1 (7) came home and said that pe today had been running round the field etc in her normal uniform and her trainers, when she has got a tracksuit etc (this was asked for specifically a short while ago)

OP posts:
Heathcliffscathy · 11/11/2006 22:29

i once went swimming in my costume and bra. only realised in changing room in dripping bra afterwards. had wondered why i'd been getting funny looks.

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:29

lol @ dignity

I will remember that next time I am staring at my small children screaming and banging their arms on the floor

"Have you no DIGNITY fgs?!"

TheStrictGrandmother · 11/11/2006 22:29

There is nothing wrong with a class full of four or five year olds doing PE in their underwear.

If it really upsets the parents, why don't they organise a rota to go in and help all the children get changed.

The teacher certainly won't have time to do it.

Heathcliffscathy · 11/11/2006 22:29

what is undignified about a 4 year old in pants???? undignified????

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:29

But someone has taught them that their underwear mustn't be seen. Nobody is born believing underwear is private. My point is, why teach them something so restrictive in the first place?

Wallace · 11/11/2006 22:30

Cos most of my bras and knickers are see through when wet Mind you so was my old bikini and I didn't realise for months

People do have different views, morningpaper, lots of people wouldn't be happy to post on mumsnet a picture of themselves heavily pregnant wearing just bra and knickers, but you are absolutley fine with that, and I don't think less of you for it.

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:30

(Yes they let me in - I usually wear cotton black bra and pants - not a skanky grey bra or anything )

collision · 11/11/2006 22:30

Has this thing kicked off yet??!!

i would have no prob with ds doing PE in his vest and pants at all.

i did it 31 years ago and think it would have saved me a tenner if Ds did PE all the time in pants too!!

Heathcliffscathy · 11/11/2006 22:30

when i'm not laughing (mostly at mp's posts) this thread makes me really really sad.

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:32

I find it very sad too actually, I know I am being sarcastic, but the thought that a preschooler's underwear may be seen as titilating is distressing to me. We are normalising paranoia.

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:32

Hmm why has this thread suddenly turned into a thread about MY underwear?

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:33

You deserve it for pinching my comment about shameful nhipples.

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:33

shameful nipples is a GREAT expression

Wallace · 11/11/2006 22:33

{that morningpaper...always steering the conversation round to her underwear...}

BIGlilBUBU · 11/11/2006 22:34

Why does it bother you so much. People have different opinions, accept it. Stop being petty "Please excuse me while I go and put a vest on my cat now".

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:36

Biglil it BOTHERS me greatly that people cannot imagine 4 year olds wearing underwear without immediately thinking of SEX

I make no apology for that

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:39

It bothers me because if enough people think that a 4 year old's underwear should be private, it will become unacceptable for me to let my 4 year old come down the shop in boxer shorts on really hot summer days, and shorts gape. he will be stuck wearing too many clothes on a very hot day, just because some people think he should have 2 layers when he isn't in his house.

What about if they aren't wearing any underwear? Is it the appearance of the clothing (ie obviously underwear) that is objectionable or is it that there is only one layer between the child's skin and the nearest paedophile?

nearlythree · 11/11/2006 22:39

It does me, too, MP. But is that really what you think I am thinking? That 4 and 5 yr olds in their underwear equals sex? Because if you do then surely I ma just a pervert.

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:40

The only point of small childrens underwear is warth, and to stop them skidding their trousers.

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:41

I think that you believe other people will be thinking of sex when they see a 4 year old's underwear, and that is why you asre uncomfortable.

nearlythree · 11/11/2006 22:42

I can remember some older boys taking the ps out of me at school becuase I didn't cover up whilst changing. In a school like dd1's especially she needs to learn that other people will find it funny (other kids) or uncomfortable (some adults - eps. once she is older) if she is only in her underwear.

BIGlilBUBU · 11/11/2006 22:44

Yeh but your really dramatising it.
When did anyone say they didnt want there kids doing PE in there underwear because they thought they might come across sexy. I just dont see why you have to try and belittle my/our opinion, as if yours is right and thats that. Laughing at our comments. Were all adults we all have our own opinion, why cant you just respect that. I and no one else has laughed at your comments or made you feel stupid for thinking different. Its just really unnessesary imo. There is no need for this thread to "kick off".

morningpaper · 11/11/2006 22:44

but nearlythree, there is a whole room of them

and she ISN'T older

and there is no one pointing and staring

TyrNannyOgg · 11/11/2006 22:45

Why does she need to learn that?

This is what I meant about it coming from the parents.

nearlythree · 11/11/2006 22:46

If I thought that other people will think of sex when they see dcs in their underwear then I wouldn't be happy for them to be in their underwear (or in the nude) when we have visitors - for example a mate of dh's stayed over and I got the dds dressed in front of him. And as I have said, as well as the teacher and TA the head must see them changing.