Are School Non-Uniform Days Getting A Bit Much?!

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e3d9d1140000e5f15c6fa8.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="" data-caption="" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="DBenitostock via Getty Images" /></div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>I remember it clearly: it was my daughter’s first non-uniform day (specifically, wear-your-pyjamas-to-nursery day) and I’d completely missed the memo.</p><p>It was like a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bbc/video/7478658064158100758" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scene out of Motherland</a> as my daughter turned up to nursery in her school uniform, book bag in hand, while all of her friends dashed in in their Frozen and Spider-Man pjs. </p><p>But unlike <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bbc/video/7478658064158100758" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anna Maxwell Martin’s character in the hit parenting comedy,</a> I didn’t have anything to whip out of a rucksack for my daughter – nor was I wearing anything I could pull off and pretend was a three-year-old’s pyjamas.  </p></div><blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@bbc/video/7478658064158100758" data-video-id="7478658064158100758" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width:605px; min-width:325px;"><section><a target="_blank" title="@bbc" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bbc?refer=embed">@bbc</a><p>World Book Day nightmare