Nursery clothes vs everyday clothes

[ailbhe]

Elsenet, someone remarked that her daughter has nursery clothes which are not suitable for everyday use, so she needs new things to wear at weekends.

I'm confused. Weekends are two days long. How is that everyday?

And do kids really do more messy things at nursery than at home with their parents? Linnea's always cleaner after times in creches than after time with me at home, presumably because they can't bath her so painting etc is more restrained.

But everyday meaning "two days a week" bothered me.

Comments

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I agree with bopeepsheep on the usage of "everyday" to mean "ordinary". And yes, being a time-poor professional with a spouse who never got the hang of housework, as far as I was concerned, letting the kids get messier than they could at home was one of the main points of nursery!

[ailbhe]

Perhaps drop-in and part-time creches have different rules. (That, or my standards are low, low, low...)