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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
ASmallWonder
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Cute clothes to daycare?
ASmallWonder
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I don't mean like, really nice stuff, but cute things you really like - do you send your LO to daycare in them? I've sent bibs and they say they use them but without fail, they always have some sort of berry or berry juice on days he's wearing an outfit I really like. I've gotten it out of some stuff but not others. DH told me it stresses him out trying to choose an outfit (he gets him ready in the morning) because he knows I've been getting PO'd at brand new stuff getting ruined haha
My issue is that anything Aiden has that I DON'T really like, well, I don't like it haha I hate sending him to daycare in all boring plain onesies/tshirts because that's where he spends his time so if doesn't wear his cute stuff during the week he may never wear it. I can't make myself happy :-p
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Re: Cute clothes to daycare?
Yea, I send him in his cute things. They are awesome at keeping him clean. I have no idea how they do it. I even seen him eating there with a spoon and no bib and he still comes home spotless. I swear they wash their clothes while they sleep...
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I wouldn't put either of my sons in any clothes that I would care if it got a stain on it to go to daycare in. Seriously, if you have clothes that aren't your favorite then use those for daycare....because you aren't going to give damn if it gets berry juice on it that won't come out.
If your husband dresses your child, set out the clothes the night before that YOU are ok with so he doesn't have to get stressed out about it.
We send him to school in everything except his nice white polos. We just avoid mostly white shirts in general. One thing that helps is that I sent in a Bumpkins bib that stays there and I bring it home on the weekends to wash. My kid is a messy eater. LOL It doesn't save shirts from getting dirty, but they aren't as nasty as they could have been. If it's an especially messy meal, they will take Jake's shirt off.
For laundry, Shout's Advanced Gel works really, really well. It's gotten everything out, and I can wash with it and it doesn't irritate his skin.
Not the really expensive stuff - like her Janie and Jack outfits. But, I have no choice but to send her in some clothes that I like. And some of it does get ruined. For that matter, some of her stuff gets ruined at home too. They're toddlers, it happens.
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This. I have a few outfits I'll put aside for "at home only," but to be honest she often ends up ruining those as well.
LMAO. No way would I ever dress my kid according to what other moms thought. That's f'ing hillarious.
DD is almost 3 and I can count on 1 hand the things that have been truly ruined beyond all salvation, and most of those have been due to major incidents like a stomach virus (no need to share all the details, but you can imagine).
My point is, it's a risk I am willing to take. Oxiclean does a great job with most stuff. The only things that would truly upset me if they were ruined beyond repair are sentimental things like dresses I wore as a baby or that my now-deceased grandmother made, so those things really only come out for very special occasions.
If it bothers you that much, but you still want him to wear "cute" stuff for daycare, go to garage sales and consignment stores and spend next to nothing on some nice looking used clothes just for daycare (try and go for dark colors if you think you'll even worry about those staining).
That said, a mix of powdered Oxyclean and liquid laundry detergent, and a good scrub brush, will get just about any stain out of anything.
I buy Tegan outfits, specifically for daycare. I don't spend much on any of Tegan's clothes (you can get such cute stuff, for very little money), but her daycare clothes are definitely the cheapest of her clothing options. All of her clothes are cute, I'm pretty adament that Tegan be dressed cute and stylish, mainly because I really enjoy dressing her that way. If she has a special dress or outfit that I buy for a specific outing, church, event, etc. and I would be upset that if it got ruined at daycare, then she doesn't wear it to daycare. For example, it was so tempting to send her in her beautiful Easter dress on the they were doing a school Easter egg hunt, but I didn't because I knew I'd be upset if something happened to the dress.
A lot of Tegan's daycare stuff comes from the $3-5 a piece racks that they have at Kohls, Carters, Children's Place, Osh Kosh and Target. All of these items hold up pretty well in the wash and seem to very easily come clean when they do get stains.
Oh yes, and I lay out Tegan's clothes for the week every Sunday evening. I used to do it because I didn't like having to think about her outfit in the morning or even the night before (I'm way too obsessive...), but now that school's out (I'm a teacher) I figured I'd just decide what she was going to wear whenever it came time to dress her.
Well, apparently, I'm a pretty major control freak because there was a morning or two when DH dressed Tegan and I did not like the combinations that he chose, lol! So, now I'm still laying out her clothes for the week, on Sunday evening. Now it doesn't matter who dresses her in the morning, because I know I'll approve of her outfit, lol!
This is also my attitude about it. If she doesn't wear them to daycare, she'll never wear them, and, really, who cares if they end up with a few stains? It's not like she's going to wear them forever anyway.
I send dd to daycare in clothes that can get messy. You can buy inexpensive things - such as clothes at Target - if you're worried about ruining the better things.
We've messed up some of her clothes on our own here at home, so I can't possibly get upset with her babysitter if she gets something on her clothes there.
I have a few outfits I save for at home (mostly 'nicer' things for going to bday parties, special occasions, whatever) and I try to avoid white shirts at DC like others have said. I have had one shirt ruined for each kid from 'washable' purple/blue paint- the darker colors are not so washable apparently. But I said something to htem & they said they'd try to make sure they're really covered up when they paint in thefuture. Well the other day DD was wearing a purple shirt & I pickedher up & it was totally wet & they said she got purple paint on it & they tried to rinse it...I can't see any evidence of it after washing so it's all good.
I also look at the lunch menu & dress accordingly- if it is a day that involves some sort of marinara/tomato sauce, I try to avoid light colors.
What I usually do is let her wear the nicer items once or twice out with us to eat or whatever, and then she wears them to DC. Even if she's going to DC, I don't want my kid looking like a slob. I think the only things that were stained were items she wore when she was an infant, not really anything now.
I send the kids in playclothes (i.e. ones that were not expensive), but I make sure they are cute! Walmart actually has some cute things in the Garanamals line, if you look hard enough.
As for stains, I use Shout spray, and regular Oxiclean to soak, and everything has come out, so far!