“torn and stained their clothes as they liked”
Kids should not be wearing expensive clothes during “play time”
I used to get irritated when older folks would look down on kids who ran around and made noise.
Let kids be kids. They will grow up soon enough.
To this uppity Russian woman, keep your “kids should be seen and not heard” attitude and take it back to Russia.
Russian mums do try to keep their laundry as small as possible.
Kids don’t need to be wearing nice clothes to play-you are right-that is what old cutoffs and T-shirts are for-but outside is the place for kids to run around and shriek-not indoors around the adults-if it was raining, we had a patio and a barn-granted not everyone lives in the country, but there are outdoor playgrounds everywhere...