bloody blinking pooping dress up for world book day

[Numberfour]

DS who is 5 and a half did NOT want to dress up today! he is bright and doing well at school etc etc etc, but a bit self conscious like i was as a child and he is now being carted off to school by DH in tears!

he is wearing jeans and a t-shirt and was supposed to wear a pirate's bandana and an eye patch (he undergoes occlusion therapy so the eye patch was easy enough!), but even so.... tears and upset and wailing.

it is more of a pain in the arse for parents than a delight for the kids to dress up, it seems.

or are your children really excited about it and is mine a little odd for not being excited!???

My dd's old school did book day and every year she was red riding hood (red hat). There is a lot of pressure on children and I don't blame him for not wanting to fanny about TBH.

thanks, kreecher. yes, it does seem that there's a lot of pressure on the kids and on the bloody parents too. doesn't help that i have been laid up for 2 days with D&V...........

My dd hates her school uniform and loves any excuse to dress differently. Tomorrow we have a sport relief thing where they wear red tops and tracksuit bottoms, then next week they have to wear their brightest clothes and take a torch, something to do with turning the lights off for Earth Day.... I don't mind as it makes it much easier to get her into school!

They change, I think. DD refused point blank to dress up for nursery nativity but is now really looking forward to it. DS, on the other hand, has to be prepared for things slowly. Could it be that costume was a bit of a rush because of you being ill and DS therefore felt 'bounced' into it?

My three love dressing up for Book Day etc, which has always slightly disappointed me as I'd love to let them stay at home and tell the school they had come in as Mr Nobody (who is invisible)

could be that DS was rushed into it, stealthsquiggle, i had not thought of that. in fact, i have not thought of much these past couple of days!

and they have a spring fair tomorrow. fat chance of me baking any cakes i am afraid.

maybe DS will enjoy it next year when he knows more about it. i am a childminder and before he started at school, he would go on the school run with me dressed up as one of the dreaded power rangers so it is not as if dressing up is a completely new experience for him.

thanks for the replies..... i am off to bed again. at least the D&V has finished.

If you have D&V you have a cast iron excuse for not baking - no-one would thank you for it if you did!

there are so many illnesses and bugs bouncing around at DS's school at the mo, it is unlikely that it would be traced back to me! but a wonderful excuse nevertheless!

thanks, everyone.

The parents are asked in our school to dress up and come in and venture around the class rooms reading passages fro the boks they represent.
have any of you done this? and what did you dress up as?

sorry to miss your post, THK. no, DS's school did not do this. How did it go at yours?

Sounds far too much like hard work to me!

N4: Only a few parents brave enough in DDs class.
We had 2 oompah loompahs , Room on the broom witch and Shrek.
The teachers however had to dress up by year group and go on stage in charactor & act in order to win votes for the best costumes from the children. You can imagine the children went wild.
was a bit awry with a "Phil Collins" at piano ... has he written a book???
Loads from the latest Alice in Wonderland.
DD doesnt have a uniform so any excuse to wear a shirt and tie

I think that the teachers are really unreasonable planning an off timetable day of fun literacy based activites and allowing the children to come in dressed up as their favourite characters...

Oh, no, actually, I think that the majority of children enjoy it, the teachers always get dressed up (IME) and the children LOVE that and the parents like seeing their happy children smiling. Not seen parents dressing up before, but that just sounds like extra fun to me!

There will always be some children who don't enjoy it - I had one child in my class who refused to dress up as a character and became quite distressed. I told him he could wear what he wanted to but to bring something with him in case he did want to dress up later. Problem solved.

I did the same with a child who didn't want to wear pyjamas on pyjama day.

I don't really understand why it doesn't seem to matter what schools/teachers do someone has to moan about it. Believe it or not, in the staff meeting when this was propsed, the teachers were probably very excited thinking about all the possiblities for the day. Not one of them will have done it to be a 'pain in the arse'!

scoobyetc, at first i was not going to explain myself but perhaps I should!

i COMPLETELY appreciate what the staff do at my son's school. i am completely overwhelmed by the fabulousness of the school, the interest and care that the staff and head has and the of course the way DS is blossoming in reception.

But, i found it difficult drumming up enthusiasm in DS for the dressing up for World Book day, and I had had gastro for a couple of days and DS was really playing up that morning because of how shy he was to dress up for school. And I am about as creative as a piece of newsprint paper.

I know most of the children love it: that's why i ended my first post by asking if other people's kids enjoyed it so much and was my DS a bit odd for NOT enjoying it!

sorry about the . perhaps you could have it with a cuppa??