Every time I go to my kid’s school, I am amazed at the difference between my day and now.
That time I went, there were kids just in pajamas and slippers. Not just one or two, dozens, and it wasn’t some special day.
Then there’s the dressier kids in lounge pants and whatever giant tshirt they pulled out of a drawer (or laundry basket) that were obviously their version of pajamas. Shit, one girl had very obviously rolled out of bed, thrown some leggings under her nightgown, slipped into crocs and jumped on the bus.
It’s pretty cool tbh. Just no fucks given for meaningless frippery unless the individual kid/family wants it. Most of the kids were relaxed, nobody giving them shit for the way they’re dressed, staff not even noticing at all. That’s the way it should be imo. Whatever gets the kids in their seats and keeps everyone relatively engaged.
Yeah, there were still plenty of jeans and t-shirt sorts, a few of the button up shirt variants, and a handful of clothes hounds. But nobody was giving anyone shit about the clothes. From what my kid says, that wasn’t just the case for the hour or so i was there that day.
We insist on clothes that are weather appropriate and acceptable for an emergency, but beyond that after seeing the norms there, we stopped giving a fuck.
My highschool experience (I’m 19, so not that long ago), was pretty much exclusively t-shirts and jeans. In fact I never wear anything BUT jeans. I uh… I even wear them to bed which has me labelled as a psychopath by the majority
I’m fairly often going to sleep in jeans too. I buy comfy jeans for one thing; nothing that’s going to bind anything sensitive. I’m also prone to bouts of insomnia, which means getting up and down a good bit. I like my stuff with me, when I’m rambling around the house. Since I have pockets full of useful things that I’ve also made fairly comfy to move around with, I don’t have any issues sleeping with full pockets either, if I can sleep at all.
Besides, I can rest easy knowing they no matter what happens, I have one less thing to get ready in an emergency.
Every time I go to my kid’s school, I am amazed at the difference between my day and now.
That time I went, there were kids just in pajamas and slippers. Not just one or two, dozens, and it wasn’t some special day.
Then there’s the dressier kids in lounge pants and whatever giant tshirt they pulled out of a drawer (or laundry basket) that were obviously their version of pajamas. Shit, one girl had very obviously rolled out of bed, thrown some leggings under her nightgown, slipped into crocs and jumped on the bus.
It’s pretty cool tbh. Just no fucks given for meaningless frippery unless the individual kid/family wants it. Most of the kids were relaxed, nobody giving them shit for the way they’re dressed, staff not even noticing at all. That’s the way it should be imo. Whatever gets the kids in their seats and keeps everyone relatively engaged.
Yeah, there were still plenty of jeans and t-shirt sorts, a few of the button up shirt variants, and a handful of clothes hounds. But nobody was giving anyone shit about the clothes. From what my kid says, that wasn’t just the case for the hour or so i was there that day.
We insist on clothes that are weather appropriate and acceptable for an emergency, but beyond that after seeing the norms there, we stopped giving a fuck.
My highschool experience (I’m 19, so not that long ago), was pretty much exclusively t-shirts and jeans. In fact I never wear anything BUT jeans. I uh… I even wear them to bed which has me labelled as a psychopath by the majority
I mean, you definitely are but, considering the sheer efficiency you can achieve, nothing but respect from over here.
I’m fairly often going to sleep in jeans too. I buy comfy jeans for one thing; nothing that’s going to bind anything sensitive. I’m also prone to bouts of insomnia, which means getting up and down a good bit. I like my stuff with me, when I’m rambling around the house. Since I have pockets full of useful things that I’ve also made fairly comfy to move around with, I don’t have any issues sleeping with full pockets either, if I can sleep at all.
Besides, I can rest easy knowing they no matter what happens, I have one less thing to get ready in an emergency.