Do you send you kid to nursery in dirty clothes?

[Ohcordelia]

By dirty clothes I don’t mean actually dirty, more stained say with some paint that won’t come off or a food stain that won’t come off but they are washed and clean albeit stained.

I do, and i get mine cheap clothes to wear from supermarkets or vinted to wear to nursery because I know they’ll get ruined, and ruined they do, but in the pictures we get sent home, it doesn’t look like anyone else does. All the other kids clothes are sweet little coordinating outfits (next, jojo maman, marks etc, yes Ive spotted a few things that I’ve seen online).

don’t tell me I’m the only one and that makes me really scutty?

I don't judge anyone who sends their kids in stained clothes but I do chuck them out once they get too stained. I am lucky in that my MIL provides a steady stream of clothes I am not keen on so while my LO looks like I'm fussy actually I'm sending her in yet another new outfit my MIL has chosen to buy.

I'm with this. I know it's only a food stain.

Always best to send children to childcare in 'messy ' clothes. We have them doing messy play, painting, water play outside jumping in muddy puddles, playing in woods. I always ask parents to send their children in stuff they don't mind getting messed up & never in best white/party gear unless it's actually a party day.

I don’t send my kids in stained clothes but I have a weird thing about stains and if I can’t get them out (which I normally can!) I can’t bring myself to dress them in them again as I worry they look scruffy. We don’t have nursery clothes as such I just try to dress her in dark clothes as much as possible as it’s much easier to get any stains out

Worst clothes you can send into childcare is brand new pristine outfit & say not to get it dirty! If you've not sent in a set of spare messy play clothes to change into then I'm afraid you can expect your child to come home messed up. Childcare settings are expected by care commission/ofsted to have children outdoors daily, it's unavoidable to get messy at times.

It's fine to send your kids in shiny new clothes as long as you don't tell the staff to keep them clean

I wasn’t organised enough/didn’t have the inclination to separate my child’s clothes into nursery/not nursery. He just wore whatever I managed to grab that was washed.
I did notice that he never had any stains from food or anything else at nursery though and I was always amazed at how they managed to keep him so clean. It worried me that perhaps he didn’t eat or have fun. (But they said he did and I did see photos)

I work in pre school, so irritating when parents send them in, in brand new clothes and then complain when they get dirty 😒

Same for orange stains?

anyone know what gets out grease/ oil?

Yes and I wouldn't think twice about it.

Absolutely, as a PP has said the nursery activities usually stain them anyway (who invents felt tips that claim washable but don’t fucking wash out?!!!). My outfits are often coordinated but that’s just because tops and bottoms are both stained 😂

Yes I do, my DD has 4 or 5 outfits which are nursery only, she doesn't wear other clothes there. Lots of friends seem to wear all sorts of outfits including beautiful summer dresses but I don't see the point in everything getting ruined. The teachers have often sent messages out to ask parents to send kids in old clothes and to remind that clothes will get stained

The kids have come home from school in clothes with paint that didn’t wash off so yes, unfortunately for that particular year they will go in with paint on. Same for teeny tiny holes, jumper pilling etc.

Of course I do. Same goes for my DD's uniform clothes. They are clean but have some permanent marker or stains here and there. I still send her in them. Her school isn't fussy.

I'm the same, if there was a lot of food stains that I couldn't get out then I'd probably get rid but paint or light food stains I send her in because she acquires all the stains in nursery anyway!

I do see on the photos that nursery post on the app that some of the other little girls wear full on dresses and outfits like you say but I'd never do that, I don't send her in anything i wouldn't want to get ruined, and I wouldn't send her in a dress because it would inhibit her playing!

Considering most of the stains came from nursery, I always sent my son to nursery in stained clothes.

I'm not a parent, but I'm a nursery nurse, and I absolutely love parents like you 🙏

It's one less thing for me to stress over, whether little Jimmy gets paint on his top, or spills his bolognese down himself.

I have 20 million things to do, and honestly, I don't need to add chasing little Tilly round the room shielding her white Ralph Lauren dress from the messiness of nursery to my ever-growing list.

Yes I did. DS got really dirty at nursery so it made sense.

No. We have nursery clothes which are cheap, and I wouldn’t send him in his nicest clothes, but I wouldn’t send him out in stained clothes.

That said; I’ve only ever had to throw away one thing for being too stained to fix, and that was a white baby grow! Everything else has been fixable. we don’t seem to attract many stains!

I think it depends on the school and the area tbh. If it’s in a working class area next to the local council estate I think it’s more socially accepted that parents can’t afford new clean clothes. Whereas if it’s in an affluent area and all the children are wearing smart clothes then it looks a bit odd if your kid is the only one in old stained clothes 🤷‍♀️

In affluent areas, nurseries usually have a uniform.

It's actually the opposite.

Affluent people tend to send their children to childcare in second hand clothes/hand me downs that look expensive but due to the patterns the stains aren't immediately visible.

The only one on my area with a uniform is linked to a prep school. All the rest however expensive allow the kids to wear what they like.

Yes of course - stained, but washed clean, clothes are absolutely fine for nursery. They got their stains there in the first place! So wasteful to throw out.

I can honestly say DS has never come home with ruined clothes and I wouldn’t be happy if he did.