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Post by mudlark on Mar 2, 2015 22:09:05 GMT
groan.... what a nightmare... so much pressure and worry from my little ones.
what are you LO's going as....if at all!
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Post by leo on Mar 2, 2015 22:51:07 GMT
Oh I'm so glad we don't have the stress of this any more! Tsunami would want to dress up because he needs to conform - but would then get too stress to actually manage it. Hurricane could never cope with going to school in anything but school uniform - I once managed to get him to wear a different pair of shoes but that was it.
Mr. Bump was a simple one - blue t-shirt with a bandage wrapped round it. Did start off with a head bandage too but that didn't make it outside the front door. The other bandage made it as far as parking outside the school.
Good luck with it.
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Post by stardog on Mar 2, 2015 23:05:48 GMT
I will be ignoring the request for them to dress up.
Hard enough getting them into school clothes. The school know they don't react well to a change in the routine.
They can't Concentrate on anything long enough to have a favourite book, so won't be asking them to make a decision about that either. We would not make it out the house.
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Post by corkwing on Mar 3, 2015 6:12:09 GMT
Oh, I remember it well! And not with fondness. We too have had many meltdowns.
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Post by gilreth on Mar 3, 2015 19:40:00 GMT
Don't - I have yet to decide if we are doing anything at all. May just send Sqk into nursery without uniform on Friday. shall see if I am inspired between now and then....
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Post by mudlark on Mar 3, 2015 22:10:27 GMT
Mine are excited and controlling and they have a funny mentality of..if there's something happening we have to have a piece of it... and will get very cross and angry if I dont let them have a piece of what ever they think the action is.
Lapwing will want to go as Elsa...
Peewit will want to go as Spiderman...
They are 4 and 5 they have not read books they do not get 'fiction' they are just up for runing around in a costume.. all the 'uber' mums are doing stuff from literature....or the other end of mums are doing stuff from teen vampire movies even though their little ones are tiny....
oh .. and then there is the red nose day disco coming up......
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Post by pingu on Mar 4, 2015 23:06:30 GMT
Gosh, no dressing up for book day here. Just a book stall and pressure to give the kids a fiver to buy a book . But I am a great reader myself and want to encourage reading so no issues with that. Glad we are spared the dressing up !!!
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Post by chotimonkey on Mar 5, 2015 20:23:55 GMT
Nursery wbd, not remembered till this morn (hot on the heels of not remembering nursery was shut mon-we'd for training). V cobbled together... Big was silky from far away tree, mainly involved her ballet stuff and a pair of wings she had fortuitously painted in half term, middle was fancy Nancy and wore every hair clip scarf and sparkly item we could find and small wore his gruffalo onesie... I think we got away with it
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Post by chotimonkey on Mar 5, 2015 20:25:17 GMT
Despite all the hassle they really enjoyed seeing all the primary kids in costume and seeing which characters they could tecognise
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Post by mudlark on Mar 5, 2015 23:04:54 GMT
Peewit roared into reception as spiderman, the teachers looked nervous as he raced around cutting dashing poses here and there and everywhere... I actually felt quite pleased they looked nervous and kissed peewit on the nose and left them to deal with it
Lapwing was of course Elsa....she is depressed at the moment..so a hollow eyed Elsa weakly walked into school barely able to smile....five other Elsas greeted her and she looked a little cheered up...
all in all glad its over....
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Post by chotimonkey on Mar 6, 2015 8:12:28 GMT
Oh mudlark, your description of your poor little elsa really touched me, love to you both
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Post by kstar on Mar 7, 2015 19:42:20 GMT
Luckily Starlet loves any chance to dress up and prance about, so WBD was a huge success here. Very simple too - her tutu "party" skirt, a top and her white furry waistcoat - Verruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :-) costume based on the musical, rather than the book lol
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Post by lemonade on Mar 8, 2015 20:26:59 GMT
[Sounding old again now] but when our girls were young they didn't do dressing up book day Phew! Just Victorian day which we got away with, with stuff from the dressing up box. I worry how commercialized it has now become with supermarkets stocking all the dress up outfits in time for Book Week putting pressure on parents to buy. In the past it seemed more of a make do and mend ... by adapting what you had or could find in a charity shop. GD even at her day nursery did a book day and the parents were running around trying to get outfits. LMB dad ordered from Tesco Direct her red riding hood outfit and it only just got here in time, he picked it up at 6 pm the night before The whole idea of school uniforms [as I understand it] was so everyone rich or poor were the same. Now the children of parents who might forget, can't afford, or the child who can't cope with dressing up, get singled out as being different. Just my thoughts ...
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Post by mudlark on Mar 8, 2015 22:14:20 GMT
I am with you Lemonade...in my day it was all about improvising with what ever old bits and pieces we could find...I am slowly weaning my two off the spoon fed advertised Disneyesque kids tv characters they aspire to be... Lapwing nearly wanted to go as Marie Merryweather from ...The Secret of Moonacre but the Disney queen Elsa won her over..... maybe next year
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Post by mooster on Mar 9, 2015 8:14:23 GMT
Being a dab hand with a sewing machine I always thought I'd enjoy dressing up days - how wrong I was - talk about stressful - never seem to have enough time or energy to work my magic (haha).
AS always went as Jack Stalwart - child spy who wore jeans and a t-shirt but carried a special rucksack with special gadgets - this came out every year for ooh four years!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 9:46:28 GMT
Like Mooster, I too thought dressing up day would be fantastic as I am quite arty and creative and I had visions of me making fab costumes etc, but it didn't happen and I came to dread any dressing up days as both my DD's hated them with a vengence and all they represented for me was turmoil and angst and days of stress before as both girls struggled between not wanting to dress up and not wanting to be left out/be different from everyone else, so in the end I took a step back, left it entirely to them whether they joined in or not, as the stress of it all was too much to bear.
They sometimes dressed up and sometimes didn't and no one every contacted me about it or even commented tbh as I think it is more about bringing in the pound for the charity, than the actual dressing up.
Choose your battles I say.
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Post by lolapola on Mar 12, 2015 21:35:06 GMT
In case any of you have the chance to slip in ideas to your schools before the next WBD, the school I work at scarpped the dressing up idea (hooray) and held a book swap instead. Pupils were encouraged to bring in books (in good condition) that they had grown out of and for every book they brought in they received a book swap token to 'spend' at the book swap help after school on WBD. Easy for parents, exciting for pupils and no kids bouncing round in fancy dress - a complete success!! (Oh and they had a staff book swap in the staff room too!) Lolapola x
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Post by lemonade on Mar 13, 2015 16:00:20 GMT
What a GREAT idea lolapola ... not sure the supermarkets would agree though :/
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