Pj wearers taking children to school,

Lilyflower

Well, it's a signal isn't it? 'I don't care about my children or whether they are failures.'

Or a way of teaching your children to be comfortable in their own skin despite what a pointless society construct is deeming to tell you.

I always think it must take a fair bit of confidence to nip out in pjs.

MissAdventure

I always think it must take a fair bit of confidence to nip out in pjs.

Or a hectic family life / low self esteem / house too cold to take your dressing gown off……

Yes, that too.
Lots and lots of reasons, none of which any of us can know just by glancing at a stranger.

I think it's low class to do that.

I won't even put the bin out in mine.

Witzend

tickingbird

I’m sorry but nothing will convince me that going out in nightclothes is decent.

Totally agree. I find it slovenly.

Me too.

This too, and also very lazy (in my opinion)

That’s always my thought!

I really don't care what people wear, but the thought of them getting out of bed - where evidently we perspire and lose about half a pint of sweat - and then mixing with people at the school gates - yuk. They must be a bit whiffy; I couldn't drink my first cuppa without having had a shower.

Do people wear their underwear under their pj’s if they’re outside? I couldn’t possibly go out without putting my bra and knickers on first, and then I may as well put day clothes on, not more pj’s. Plus I only have one set of nightwear, which is for when I’m proper ill.

The original poster isn't judging but several others are. People presume that someone hasn't washed or brushed their teeth because they are in pyjamas. You don't know this is a fact so should not say it...simple.

So if we all sweat so much at night, do you all change your beds every day, or do you just climb back into the stink every night?

Of course, if you have a partner, that's a pint of sweat you're lying in... 7 pints a week of sweat.

Just exactly how do you know what is or is not night attire?
At the beginning of summer I bought some M&S summer trousers and have worn them regularly .
Just recently I was browsing online and came across some men's pyjamas that looked as though they were made from the same material as my trousers. ( Navy blue with little white dotted circles).
In any case, I would far rather see mums on the school run in pyjamas than bikinis or negligees!

Not indecent ….just slovenly and very lazy…. and I suspect an embarrassment to the kids with them.

Doodledog I too have a velvety pullover and trouser set from M+S from a few years ago- bought from the nightwear department, but never used as nightwear. Very cosy in the winter. They were probably meant to wear over PJs instead of a dressing gown as they are quite thick. I still use the top half ( with a warm cowl neck) on cold draughty evenings.

I suppose using 'nightwear' as an extra layer or using day cloths by night is nothing new- more a change in customs.
I read children used to sleep in their school coats to keep warm on winter nights. In the devastating east coast floods (1953?) people had their coats upstairs with them- because they used them to keep warm overnight so were able to wear them awaiting rescue from upstairs windows and rooves.
I remember using my coat over the bed as an extra layer at night in the days before central heating. A bit different to wearing nightwear as day wear.

MissAdventure

Yes, that too.
Lots and lots of reasons, none of which any of us can know just by glancing at a stranger.

I think it's low class to do that.

I think I might organise a GNetters meet up and turn up in my PJs

This is one of the funniest threads I have read. I’m amazed at what so many people find offensive.

Look at it another way, Mum would have liked to stay in her nice warm bed, but instead she has got up, had a coffee, hopefully fed the kids and got them ready for school because school is important. It’s a possible scenario and a good message.

Living where I do we worry about the dealers at the school gates, the whiff of weed in the air and the teenagers carrying blades and robbing younger kids of their dinner money and phones, not what parents are wearing.

I do wonder where a lot of Gransnet members live and no, even where I live I have only rarely seen mums in nightwear though our school serves a sink housing estate two minutes from the gates.

I did once get my four to school, after a battle with the autistic beauty who as fast as I put her shoes and socks on had whipped them off again multiple times, stepping out of the car to find I had slippers on my feet. No-one gave me the impression that they were shocked or judging me.

Agree

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rowyn Just exactly how do you know what is or is not night attire?
At the beginning of summer I bought some M&S summer trousers and have worn them regularly

Precisely my point to the 3 quite different photos.

It's lower class common....
The only people I've seen in nightwear first things in the morning have been wives dropping their besuited and bebriefcased professional husbands off at the station, so no need to pay for parking
I'm sure that they would have been delighted to hear that judgement

Night wear is a bit like "the latest iphone" I think.

Everyone is an expert at sporting it, but nobody can tell you how, or what, exactly, they look like.

MissAdventure

Of course, if you have a partner, that's a pint of sweat you're lying in... 7 pints a week of sweat.

And that takes us back to the old, of discussed story of should you shower off the day’s dirt before bed or wipe it off on the covers and shower in the morning- or less often than that now to save water and fuel.

That's the trouble with humans.

They smell so... human.

My only concern is the effect on the children.

If they are stigmatised because their parents are wearing nightwear, then I'm against it. If other children are the ones stigmatising those whose parents do this, then it's not good.

From my own personal POV I don't like mixing with smelly people (who does), but who's to say they haven't showered and put on clean PJs hoping to hop back in bed when the kids are safely in school?

... and some people do lead haphazard lives and find it difficult to cope. I've every sympathy for them and if they manage to get the kids to the school, well, at least they're making the effort...