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.
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