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Are you a Pyjama Mummy?

69 replies

Lilymaid · 08/06/2007 13:45

I don't know why some of you complain about mums dressing up to collect DCs from school. You need to go to Belfast

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handlemecarefully · 11/06/2007 22:38

I saw this article too and find it totally fascinating. There just doesn't seem to be this phenomenom over here....yet

Oblomov · 11/06/2007 22:47

Leave it to me handlemecarefully. I could have a phenomenom going, within the week

mm22bys · 12/06/2007 13:38

OMG....

What would FlyLady have to say?

MummyPenguin · 12/06/2007 14:22

I think the 'lack of respect' part is a bit Surely it's more important how the kids are turning up, and what sort of parents these 'pyjama mummies' are? Does it matter what we wear to and from the school gate? The headmasters don't have to look at us if they don't want to.

Soph73 · 12/06/2007 15:02

Rosa - you could wear those jammies to work with handbag and heels

foxcub · 12/06/2007 22:01

LOL!

I've only worn pyjamas on the school run once, when I was very late!

bozza · 12/06/2007 22:13

I will confess to having taken the car for a quick spin in the early hours when at an utter loss as to how to get a newborn baby to sleep in my pjs but managed to get past that point by the time the children were school age. And for those of us who leave the house at 7.20 am on work days, 9 am when the school is 5 mins walk at toddler pace is a doddle.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 12/06/2007 22:21

at least they are taking the kids to school.

saggers · 12/06/2007 22:29

There was a mum at dd1's school who used to take her little boy to school in her pyjamas, and sometimes picked him up in them. She always had make-up and jewellery on.
Scrubber.

elibumbum · 13/06/2007 09:55

Being seen outside in my jim jams is only something that would happen in an anxiety dream/nightmare (or emergency evacuation)!

Washersaurus · 13/06/2007 10:12

Funny story I have never heard of that happening before

Personally, I have never been further than my door step in my pj's, to get the milk in.

WideWebWitch · 13/06/2007 10:13

I dropped ds at school in my pyjamas this am but I didn't have to get out ofthe car and neither would I have done. Took my mobile phone and prayed I didn't break down. But it's a rare event.

SSSandy2 · 13/06/2007 10:16

Was wondering about this. Maybe if it becomes the "done thing" at a school, it doesn't seem so odd. It's impossible to imagine anyone at our school turning up like that. I think the dc would be really embarrassed too if anyone did it. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.

I was at football club on Friday and noticed that lots of mums had gold sandals on with red toe nail polish. It's a look I couldn't imagine wearing in a million years but maybe if I spent all summer chatting for hours to mums dressed that way, it would feel less and less strange and who knows, I might even end up conforming and buying gold sandals myself.

I suppose that's how the pyjama thing came about too.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 14/06/2007 16:33

I was chatting to someone today, not from Belfast who says she often takes her kids to school in her pj's. She does wear shoes not slippers though!

Minniethemoocher · 20/06/2007 20:31

No, never! I walk DD to school each day, whatever the weather because the traffic is so bad, it would take 20 mins of sitting in the traffic to get there, or 10mins walking.

Then I go straight to work, so no PJs for me!

Minnie

cylonbabe · 20/06/2007 21:01

ive dropped dc at school in my pj's, but only when driving, and knowing i wont be getting out, and cause we are frantically late or some such reason.

tbh, i find the amount of flesh on display in the playground in the afternoons in the summer quite offensive. i'd really rather not have to look at everyone's cleavage, thighs, shoulders, backs, and more cleavage. not to forget teh bared bellies. fortuantley most mom's in the dc's school dont have bellies they are willing t o bare.
and really awful, is when you can see that someone is actively burning, and they are happily chatting abpout how wonderful the weather is.
why do th eenglish expose their flesh so much?

3andnomore · 21/06/2007 15:39

lolol....don't even need to go as far as Belfast...plenty of mums here in Corby do that...well....I see a fair few when I bring my Kids to school....not a look I personally go for....not that I am a dressed upkinda mum ....I suppose I prefer Jeans

BarefootShirl · 24/06/2007 16:32

Not something I've done but then it would be tricky as I always sleep nude. Have been known to just throw on shorts and crop-top when running late though!

Ripeberry, I nearly always do the school run barefoot - as you might have guess from the nickname I hate shoes and avoid wearing them whenever possible

FrannyandZooey · 24/06/2007 16:35

God, I AM a pyjama mummy

what time is it?

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