Middlesbrough School Warns Pyjama Mamas to Get Dressed Properly

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Head teacher of Pallister Park Primary School, Chris Wain,  has warned parents to get dressed before dropping their children off or picking them up.




Some pyjama mamas were even attending official school meeting while still wearing their pyjamas.


Miss Wain told the BBC : 
"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." 

Reporters spoke to parents outside the school, and found one mum wearing leggings over her pyjamas (which could still be seen) while her friend still wore her slippers.

This strange phenomenon seems to be spreading worldwide. More reports coming soon.

Belfast school Head Bans Pyjama Mamas from School Gates

In Belfast, Northern Ireland, the problem is particularly bad.

It has become a fad to take children to school while wearing pyjamas with an overcoat and shoes to semi-hide the fact that you are not dressed.

The BBC recently reported that at one school St. Matthew's Primary, headmaster Joe McGuinness ha taken pro-active steps to stop pyjama mamas by writing to every parent asking them to make sure they are suitably dressed while dropping their children off.

According to the school, up to 50 mothers were turning up wearing their pyjamas, causing embarrassment to staff and setting a bad example to all the children, which is a fair point. After all, how long before they children start whinging about having to get dressed in the morning?

Local Sinn Fein representative is reported as saying it was far more important to note that parents were actually taking their children to school, even if they failed to get dressed first.

Journalist Robin Livingstone of the Anderstown News is accredited with first coining the expression 'All Day Pyjama Syndrome' or ADPS as it has been noticeable that many areas that some women seem to wear their pyjamas all day while going about their business - shopping, working, taking the children to school and back.

What are Pyjama Mamas?

In this context, pyjama mamas are those ladies who go out of the house wearing their pyjamas but with an overcoat on to hide what they are wearing. They don't seem to realise that by their very nature, the colorful legs of pyjamas can be spotted a mile off, and they are fooling no-one.

To a certain extent I can understand the attraction of going out early in the day with pyjamas on - just brush your teeth and hair, slip on a pair of outdoors shoes and a coat and you are sorted!

For busy mothers with pre-schoolers and babies, no doubt this is a major time-saver - though not something I ever thought of doping myself. What is a couple of minutes extra to slip some proper clothes on?

But now in the UK we are seeing shopping centres where those mothers hang around all day, at the cafes or window-shopping, while still in a state of undress.
Some go so far as to suggest that they are just lazy, and lacking in self-respect.

I don't know, is that the case?

The young lady interviewed in this clip confesses "When you nip out to the shops, you wear your best pyjamas".

Now you know.