Not ironing your child's clothes is a sign of neglect

[Caligula]

Give me strength. My mother is here. The title is just one of her gems of wisdom. I've ended up having a "discussion" with her which basically consisted of her going through all the people she knows - au-pairs, nannies, childminders, neighbours, Auntie Bridget, Auntie Kathleen, Cousin Annie, Mrs Clark up the road, Mrs Lewis down the road, etc. etc. who all say you can tell a child is neglected by the wrinkles in their clothes, while I was reduced to saying "yeah but am I bovvered though?" "look at my face, does it look bovvered?" through this catalogue of gurus who believe that ironing = good childcare.

Roll on later on, when I'm driving her home!!!

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My MIL came to stay with us for a few days when dd was born to do the house work and laundry. I didn't ask her to, she just came.
I soon discovered that her version of laundry is radically different to mine; from the machine things are first hung out for an hour or so, then ironed until just damp, then hung out again, then ironed again after another hour then "aired" on the clothes horse then, guess what, ironed again!
After a few days of watching it I was tearing my hair out, why why why?

S$t Lilypie, thats one bored woman!!!! I hate ironing however once when i was pregnant (w first) we were living in a town where i knew nobody, i was super bored. My husband walks in to find me ironing SOCKS* . I think the hormones made me crazy.

MIL phoned me in hospital after CS with no 3 to ask what setting was best for tights on my iron!

Oh please! some people obviously have nothing better to do with their time than do ironing or come up with stupid remarks like this one, i for one would sooner spend time with my daughter and husband.Does that sound like neglect?!!!
iron as you wear if necessary but then surely the best option is to try and buy clothes that dont need ironing.
and to all those busy bodies who think that go get a life and piss off!!!!

I do what needed but as for the MIL it's everythin, teatowels and underpants!! So the DP has been severly neglected in the last 10yrs never mind the kids!

Christ my kids have been neglected for 7 years!!!

I am not lucky enough to have a mother like charliecat that does it all for her!!! GRRrrrrr. lol

Bought an iron only because my mum was coming to stay for a month ( we're in Australia), and that was just as I knew she would want to iron her clothes, she's sensible enough not to comment on the fact I iron nothing. Life is too short and there's so much other tedious domestic shit to do that can't be avoided ( washing/ washing up/ cooking). Sod ironing

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I have a fab top from M&S which you tie in a knot while wet and leave it til it's dry. I'm considering buying everyone in the house clothes with instructions like that!

I detest ironing but can't quite bear not to do it but only do the minimum. Also pay dd to do it which is great.

lol @ your mum caligula! best joke I've heard for ages

jimjams - glad to see you back again.

Never ever iron unless something is crumpled beyong recognition.I hate seeing little kids in clothes full of ironing creases .Most of my friends and their kids are of the unironed variety so we don't look too bad!Although I do notice the chavvier the parents the better the clothes are ironed.What does that mean?

Iron kids clothes? Never ever, nor mine really. Are they meant to be ironed then?

My Mum irons my twins clothes when she comes round although I tell her not to.

Yesterday when I told her that one twin had been biting the other, she came out with,"well they never do it when I'm looking after them".

AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

I don't even know how to put up my ironing board- only have one at all because it was a present I requested in a bizarre fir of housewifeliness.

Never iron, just don't. Far too busy loving my family / making them wholesome food/ helping their education- this is neglect is it? Okaaaaaaaaay

Wot-eva

You know if you hang clothes on the line and if it rains they are as good as ironed when they finally dry. DP loves his iron, I love clothes that need little or no iron. Funnily enough I enjoy ironing probably cos I do so little of it.

Is that true drosophilia?

Hmm, am waiting for storms

Thank you for mentioning slovenly - it's a word I haven't seen for yonks and I quite like it. Say it loud and say it proud... I'm a sloven! (My iron sees the light of day about once a month, if that).

Only read the original message. What a load of bollocks! DS has never worn anything ironed (except maybe his "party shirt" - which doesn't see the light of day that often), and he is definitely NOT neglected!!!

Isn't good childcare about entertaining, educating, providing nutritious food, a safe home etc. etc. I didn't realise an iron came anywhere near it!!!

DO you think it's something to do with the 'Seven Deadly Sins'????

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I pay someone else to do my ironing. If I didn't have that option I probably would do an absolute minimum, and I mean absolute.

DP wears shirts that have to be ironed for work, but that's his problem

My mum still thinks me and DH1 split up because I didn't iron his shirts!!!

No ironing ever gets done in this house unless 1)DP is starting a new job or 2) we're going to a wedding - and even then it's only if something is really really creased. So we're all neglected. And happy. I have no spare time ever due to late-to-bed/early-up kids, so simply wouldn't have a life at all if I wasted it ironing stuff that's only back in the wash basket the mnext day. Anyway, my answer to critics is that if you iron things, they only get creased int he wardrobe/drawer, whereas if you don't iron them (just shake them and hang them up to dry before putting away)they end up flatter than when you put them away.

we don't own an iron. call social services.