to think its wrong that a father had his daughter dressed ONLY in a pair of shorts!!!

i remember my mum always used to say things like "put a jumper on, i'm cold" and it used to drive me mental because i was warm!

Now there's a girl who is walking to the bus stop along our route to the boys school who always drags her coat along behind her, never wears it, no matter if its blowing a gale or pouring with rain. i always want to stop and tell her to put it on! and i wonder if she left the house like that, or took off the coat around the corner. am i judging the mother for not stapling a coat to her child's shoulders?

so i know it's common to look at folks and think they must be cold/hot because you are, but the kid was probably boiling hot from all the running around.

My dsis and her friend stripped naked and ran out into the snow once when my dad was supposed to be looking after them!

prawnsmum

Sorry haven't read the whole thread but my dd1 & dd2 keep taking clothes off to play in garden. Don't have a clue why end up with dd1 just in pants and socks and dd2 just in her socks and nappy. They look a right picture jumping up and down on trampoline but when I argue they say their too hot so I leave them until they want to get re-dressed.

Sorry but maybe she had a temp but was well enough to play out. If she seemed fine she properly was. My DH always struggles to know what to put on DD.
I would worry about your own kids and stop worrying about others that are ok.
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Oh FFS, do you really have so little going on in your life that you notice and judge someone because the child in their care only had a pair of shorts on?! Was the child being beaten? Was she crying? Was she blue with cold and begging for clothes? Why as parents do we spend so much time bitching about the way other people live their lives and look after their children?!!

My ds refuses point blank to have the raincover on his pushchair even in a torrential downpour and people give me looks like I'm a terrible mum for letting him get wet. She probably wanted her t-shirt off because she was hot. Children do seem to be hotter than adults at that age.

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maybe he was letting her experience the word consequence, its an important lesson and they're never too young

I think its fine, she would have said if she was cold and you didn't mention her looking upset at all. I took my dd out yesterday in a tennis dress, poncho, socks and shoes and had a lady actually come up to me and say "gosh look at her bare legs, she must be freezing you should have wrapped her up more!!" I then spent the rest of the day paranoid that everyone was thinking I hadn't clothed her properly...

So I'm glad to hear about all these other lo's playing in pools and running round with no clothes on!!

I was actually going to start a thread on this cause when I was out for lunch there I saw a woman in M&S wearing a strapless sun dress and flip flops

I agree YABU - it might have been UNWISE given that it wan't very warm - but no definitely not WRONG - that implies something else entirely !

prawnsmum, my kids were running around in their swimming cossies, and that's in Scotland too. It was a lovely day, I was in a t-shirt, so don't want to offend but don't see what the issue is???

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why does the title say That at FATHER had hid daughter only in a apir of shorts? Do you really see the gender of the parent as being an issue?

You really seem to be suggesting something there?

TBH I don't see a 3 year old running around playing without a t shirt as being anything noteworthy at all.

In theory...... but wish someone would tell my DD that. She if almost 4, if she is hot then layers come off never mind what the weather is like. She is happy, I think its funny!

My DD would wear as little as possible and as she is nearly 4 I pretty much let her get on with it. She is a hot body like me, I can picture her a while back in the park, no coat with her friend who also insisted no coat, swear the pair of them were going slightly blue round the lips but they said they were both hot!! Tend not to worry about it really, so if the little girl looked OK then fine. Certainly nothing wrong about it, never have been one to wrap up a child of that age - they can tell you how they feel. I would rather see a kid like that having fun than one all wrapped up hardly moving!

Well I had 4 naked children running in and out of the water jets in my garden yesterday and they all refused to get dressed or even take advantage of the warmed towels I had ready for them - I do think that it is rare that a semi naked toddler hasn't insisted on being that way themsleves

my ds is only 3.5 and he drives me bonkers when we go out, he just doesn't feel the cold. I can be in the house wearing a jumper and he's prancing round with no clothes on then thinks nothing of stripping as many layers as possible off while we're out shopping.
i'm sure people look at me and think exactly what you were yesterday!