Mothers / grandparents in night clothes

Rubytuesday
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edited January 2016 in General Chat #1

A headmistress at a local primary school has written to parents / grandparents , asking them to Stop taking children and picking them up from school in there nightclothes, and set an example to the children

I personally agree disgusting habit which I have noticed myself, the local all night supermarkets eventually put a stop to it some time ago, but taking and picking up children  from school Surprised even
grandparents are at it Surprised

  

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  • Whittakerr
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    edited January 2016 #2

    Totally agree. These people are a disgrace. 

  • Whittakerr
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    edited January 2016 #3

    Apparently some of these people have attended assemblies and school meetings in night cloths and slippers. The mind boggles.  

  • Metheven
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    edited January 2016 #4

    I have to ask Why, is it too much trouble to dress, have they no interest in how others view them, hopefully their chldren will have better standards and not swayed by their parents abysmal behaviour.

    Just a little worse than those on si ............... whoops, better not go there Innocent

  • moulesy
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    edited January 2016 #5

    I remember a very nice well endowed young mum turning up to one of my parent's evenings in the skimpiest of negligees ..... hang on a mo, that didn't actually happen did it, I just dreamt it!Laughing. Use left and right arrows to navigate.
     

  • Oneputt
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    edited January 2016 #6

    Following the example of some going about their ablutions on CC sitesSurprised

  • Metheven
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    edited January 2016 #7

    I remember a very nice well endowed young mum turning up to one of my parent's evenings in the skimpiest of negligees ..... hang on a mo, that didn't actually happen did it, I just dreamt it!Laughing. Use left and right arrows to navigate.
     

    Ah, well that's different Tongue Out

  • redface
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    edited January 2016 #8

    Oh good heavens above! - can't some of us be different to the mob occasionally? Good luck to them and I hope, if its cold, they bring their hot water bottles along as well.

  • SteveL
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    edited January 2016 #9

    I'm with the headmistress. How long does it take to get dressed, just throw on a tracksuit or something

  • tigerfish
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    edited January 2016 #10

    Standards Timothy!

    TF

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2016 #11

    I remember a very nice well endowed young mum turning up to one of my parent's evenings in the skimpiest of negligees ..... hang on a mo, that didn't actually happen did it, I just dreamt it!Laughing. Use left and right arrows to navigate.
     

    I had that dream as well...

    did you notice the clever the child the better looking the mother?

  • Pippah45
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    edited January 2016 #12

    Can we really tell which are night clothes these days?  I have seen some things that look suspiciously like PJ bottoms just about everywhere - and could fluffy slippers be a new fashion??  I am with the Head Mistress! 

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited January 2016 #13

    I remember when I had just had our second son and had to get his brother to nursery in the mornings.  Not being that organised at the beginning and often running late, I did just pull a jumper or a coat over my pyjamas, then walked to nursery.  Surprised Does
    that make me a bad mother/person?

  • Graydjames
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    edited January 2016 #14

    The letter said:

    'I have noticed there has been an increasing tendency for parents to escort children to and from school while still wearing their pyjamas and, on occasion, even slippers.'

    That seemed slightly odd to me since I would have thought it was far more peculiar to go out in pyjamas than in slippers. When it is dry it is surely not that unusual for people to retain their slippers when just going short distances to say the local shop or the post box or some such. It would be much more strange to see them in pyjamas.

    However, on the real point I rather agree with this headmistress.

    I am also reminded of my times in the old Middlesex hospital in London when able boded patients in hospital gowns and (usually) a dressing gown and slippers would frequently navigate the busy Mortimer Street to buy provisions from the local Sainsbury opposite.

  • bestboy
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    edited January 2016 #15

    Odd isn't it how the media get hold of and decide which story to print. As a headteacher I dealt with similar issues directly with the parents concerned and never made the papers once!

  • Kennine
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    edited January 2016 #16

    I remember a very nice well endowed young mum turning up to one of my parent's evenings in the skimpiest of negligees ..... hang on a mo, that didn't actually happen did it, I just dreamt it!Laughing. Use left and right arrows to navigate.  

    Write your comments here..Is that what viagra does to a person,---- I always wondered. CoolWink

     

    Seriously though, those slovenly parents are setting a bad example to their kids. No self respect. 

  • volvoman9
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    edited January 2016 #17

    I have too agree with the school on this it shows a lack of routine and does,nt set a good example too the children.

    peter.

  • tombar
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    edited January 2016 #18

    I would just call it bone idleness

     

  • redface
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    edited January 2016 #19

    Did these errant parents/grandparents drive to school as well or did they walk?

  • Tammygirl
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    edited January 2016 #20

    I would just call it bone idleness

     

    Me too.

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited January 2016 #21

    Did these errant parents/grandparents drive to school as well or did they walk?

    Write your comments here...walking smoking ,a few drivers Surprised

  • Janny
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    edited January 2016 #22

    My granddaughter who is 10 , said that a friend in her class came to school in her pyjamas as she would not get dressed and that the mother told the teacher to dress her and get her breakfast , what is it coming to !!

  • mickysf
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    edited January 2016 #23

    My granddaughter who is 10 , said that a friend in her class came to school in her pyjamas as she would not get dressed and that the mother told the teacher to dress her and get her breakfast , what is it coming to !!

    ...well, at least they ensured that the child arrived at school! In my day some parents didn't even get out of bed to help their children get dressed and breakfasted, some didn't even care about whether they actually arrived at school or not.

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited January 2016 #24

    Reading an article yesterday.  They have been given the name slummy mummies and so right to , some are so upset the headmistress wrote the letters they have encouraged friends / family to dress in nightwear and demonstrate outside school.