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Lazy parenting...
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 9:51 pm
by Gob
A Middlesbrough head teacher has asked parents to get properly dressed before the school run.
It follows sightings of a number of them still wearing their pyjamas when they brought their children to school.
Some people were even attending meetings at Pallister Park Primary school in their nightwear.
This prompted the school's head, Chris Wain, to send out letters to parents urging them to think about what they were wearing.
Ms Wain said: "What we were seeing was people staying in their pyjamas all day.
"They were dropping their children off in the morning and collecting them in the afternoon wearing the same pyjamas."
Outside the school, one parent, accompanied by a friend in slippers, was wearing leggings over her pyjamas.
She said: "I have to cover up otherwise the school goes mad."
In 2007, the principal of a Northern Ireland primary school also reprimanded parents who regularly turned up at the school gate in their pyjamas.
He said the trend set a bad example to pupils and made staff uncomfortable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-13511668
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:01 am
by oldr_n_wsr
I do have to say that some people around here also seem to be in their PJ's all day. Bu5t then agin, a whole bunch of kids wear their pants halfway down their legs with their undrpants showing, so who am I to judge.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:12 am
by The Hen
I am not one to formally dress up for routine runs to collect my girl. But I have never left the house for anything only wearing my pjs.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:13 am
by SisterMaryFellatio
I would love to take Pudd to school wearing jammies, its a half hour drive to Pudds school.
My own pride would not let me wear jammies, sloppy joe, leggings and if i am having a Beetlejuice hair day a baseball cap!
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:14 pm
by Sean
Yeah, just because you slept in them doesn't make them jammies...
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:21 am
by loCAtek
Um, are these folks aware of the trend of 'Pajama pants' this year? All the top designers are putting out their own styles: Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, James Perse, etc. etc.
Have they no fashion sense?
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:51 am
by dales
Why don't they just sleep in their street clothes?
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 1:18 am
by Lord Jim
It follows sightings of a number of them still wearing their pyjamas when they brought their children to school.
Yeah, where do these people think they are?
The supermarket?
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 1:40 am
by Scooter
LOL
I remember growing up, there was a woman on our street (well, there were a few, but this one took it to an extreme the others didn't)...
I never remember seeing her when she wasn't wearing rollers. When she first emerged from her door in the morning, when she sat on her front porch in the afternoon, taking her kids to the park, at the bank, at the grocery store, wherever. I always wondered, what is she setting her hair for if no one ever sees her hairstyle?
Oh yeah, and she would always be padding up and down the street in bedroom slippers. I might have seen her wearing shoes but I don't remember it.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:28 am
by oldr_n_wsr
Um, are these folks aware of the trend of 'Pajama pants' this year? All the top designers are putting out their own styles: Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, James Perse, etc. etc.
Those are too ugly to wear around the house, forget about wearing them out in public.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 2:51 am
by loCAtek
No one said fashion is pretty.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:02 am
by The Hen
Except they weren't wearing that, they were wearing this:
Unrepentant: Karen Downing, from Middlesbrough, said she does not see the problem of going out in her nightwear
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1NQLL3Qf6
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:47 am
by loCAtek
You sleep in bathrobes there?
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 9:56 am
by Sean
It's a dressing gown. That woman is obviously a posh Boro bird as she put hers on over her nightie before she went out.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 2:50 pm
by Guinevere
I'm trying to see the footwear. Are they slippers, or proper shoes? They almost looks like heels, which would make it all even more hilarious.
This is exactly why I don't wear or own pajamas!
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:37 pm
by BoSoxGal
for sleeping in the buff!
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:40 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
If everything is properly covered up where's the problem?
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 1:57 am
by oldr_n_wsr
Now if Ralph Lauren had put that out on the runway it would have been a huge hit.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 10:40 am
by loCAtek
The OP says the folks wore nightwear, or pyjamas; is this a Brit thing to include the bathrobe? In my country that's said only of clothes you sleep in. Well... unless of course, they're pajama pants, then it's OK.
That said, a bathrobe is even a step below causal, but I know a neighbor lady who walks her dog in the early morning dressed like that.
Re: Lazy parenting...
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 11:11 am
by Sean
When people get out of bed in the UK many will put a dressing gown on over their nightwear. They may have covered their nightwear with a dressing gown but as the article states they are still wearing their nightwear. Nobody is claiming that a dressing gown is nightwear.