The series of Spirit Days at the end of the year at school is sure to be an exhausting one for parents across the country. Even when you think you’ve got your kid’s outfits down early on, you’ll find that there’s a last minute item that still needs to be bought or made, it’s like magic.
One mom had a bone to pick with Pajama Day at her kid’s school, saying that even her kid is tired of having to do it.
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She took to TikTok to talk about it
The mother, user @radionikki on TikTok, posted a video that went viral on the app, talking about her experience with the school tradition.
“I’m not trying to be a Karen, but I think the whole notion of pajama days and spirit days are getting out of hand,” she started.
The mom is experiencing burnout
The Spirit Days in December started off fun, with Christmas-themed days and days where the kids get to wear their pajamas at school, but she soon started experiencing burnout.
The mother explained her point
“So we had 15 special spirit days in December, every single day the kids went to school in December they had a different theme. Pajama Day. Wear your favorite Christmas shirt, and it was fine, okay? I get it. They were just surviving, right?” she explained.
She found it was the same in January
The mother thought 15 Spirit Days in December was fun, after all, it’s the end of the year and break is coming up. But she felt things were getting out of hand when it was the same thing again in January.
“They went back to school on Monday, and why? Tell me why! This entire first week back to school is also pajama week. My third grader is over it. He’s like, ‘I’m just gonna wear sweatpants and a T-shirt’,” she shared.
Her younger kid doesn’t understand
While her son in third grade was fed up with the pajama days and decided to just wear a T-shirt to school, she shared that her first grader was simply confused about the situation.?
She shared her younger son’s feelings
“My first grader is so confused because all the pajama days that they just had in December were Christmas-themed … So he’s getting ready today and he’s putting on all Christmas clothes and I’m like, ‘No buddy, we don’t really want to wear those to school. It’s just regular pajamas’,” she explained.
He was still confused about the Spirit Days
“And he goes, ‘But I thought all pajama days were Christmas days,’ and we’re so focused on this instead of actually learning,” the mother added on her son’s response.
The little kid seemed to have gotten the Spirit Days confused because they should have only been during Christmastime.
Users responded to the mother
A lot of people took to the comments to respond to the mother’s video, with some agreeing while others clarified that the days don’t necessarily interrupt education.
“I don’t think the days interrupt education but I do agree that they are getting to be too much! Our kids school had OBNOXIOUS themes that you couldn’t just throw together at home! Annoying!” one person wrote.
Another parent agreed with her
Other parents seem to be agreeing with the poster, as one user also wrote, “We only do the week before Christmas and like homecoming and stuff like that. But even then I let my kids choose if they want to participate or not. It becomes too much.”
One person said it takes the fun out of it
One user suggested that too many Spirit Days takes the fun out of the whole thing, writing, “This is a perfect example of too much of a good thing = a bad thing. I love spirit days/dress up days, but it can be too much! It should be scattered in throughout the year for special things!”
Wearing pajamas to school may cut down on the morning prep time, but too often and perhaps you’ll just start sleeping in.
Last Updated on February 4, 2025 by Nour Morsy
