A mum has asked for advice after getting odd looks from parents when she drops her two-year-old daughter at nursery, thanks to her top. The mum, who posted anonymously on popular parenting forum Mumsnet, explained that her daughter often gets messy from painting at nursery and her clothes get stained.
She wrote: "I have never worried about the condition of her clothes or the state of cleanliness – I'd rather she has fun while I'm at work. But this morning I sent her in a jumper that had paint over it - stained. It was perfectly clean, just had green paint splodges over the front.
"I got an odd look from some other parents dropping off at the same time and on reflection I'm wondering whether it's looking like a safeguarding or neglect issue. She's always clean in herself, just her clothes could have any number of paint splodges over."
Other parents said they do the same, reports The Mirror.
One said: "My daughter goes into nursery in stained clothing. Our nursery even ask we put them in clothes that they wouldn't wear outside of the nursery as they do so many crafts/painting/water play/outside activities."
Another wrote: "I mentally divide clothes into nursery clothes and non-nursery clothes. If it's already stained it's automatically in nursery clothes."
"Basically all of my daughter's tops have stains on them. She's always in clean (as in washed) clothes, but I'm not going to throw away every top that gets paint or tomato on it," commented a third.
