To feel the weather is actually now making me a terrible parent

Aren't there just. I don't live in the UK. I couldn't live in the UK, simply because of the weather. Here we've had five cloudy days, with rain on two or three of them. I can't remember when we last had a spell of such dull/wet weather. Last week I went out for a walk and saw someone watering their lawn, and in the park they were watering the gardens - and it's nearly winter.

Some of these ideas for spending a rainy day are just mad. If it rains all day here I don't leave the house if I don't have to - why would I expect a child to want to be out playing in the rain if I wouldn't want to do it myself.

I suppose I almost have to admire Brits in their valiant attempts to enjoy what appears to have been a particularly wet and miserable many months!

I rather suspect your version of "loads of sunshine" is different to mine!

About to walk home in the pissing rain for thirty min, can’t wait to count all the snails 🐌 😃😃😃😃

I read something that said the last 18 months have been the wettest on record.

OP I feel you - it’s pissing down here AGAIN, I have a toddler who wants to be in a summer dress and sandals and a baby with a cold, there’s nowhere I want to be less than jumping around in puddles like Peppa bloody Pig. It’s shit at the moment, made worse by the fact that it’s nearly June and it should be nicer - I can tolerate rainy windy shitty weather in winter but in almost summer I feel SAD. It’s fine though because only boring people get bored 🙃

Any play cafes or playgroups you can go to? I miss those days when I could go to one of those and we were both happy!

This weather is dog shit and anyone who says otherwise is off their heads

@FanofLeaves I will remind myself when I'm lying soggy in a puddle with a broken ankle

Oh but surely you see the value of getting out in the fresh air, you won’t MELT 😂 it’ll be positively JOLLY

Not quite sure why people say no such thing as bad weather

Our netball matches have all been cancelled tonight as it's not safe. No matter what clothes we were, and there's an amber rain warning

I'd just wait for a break in the rain then get out for a quick walk. It makes a big difference.
Otherwise it's off to the supermarket, swimming pool, library, bus ride, grand parents, friend, playgroup, museum, b&q

Everyone getting high and mighty saying it’s only rain, wear appropriate clothing etc- yeah, we know. We’ve been doing it on and off for months. There’s not a puddle that hasn’t been splashed in.

This. R4 this morning was suggesting that this has been the wettest October-March in - certainly decades, maybe many decades.

I got fed up of the rain and booked a week in Mallorca. Here right now, it's great!

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Just do this op

This. I have an 18mo and we have spend 2 days indoors. I don't get this obsession that they need to be out all the time. It's raining non stop here and I rather deal with my baby indoors than being wet and muddy and battling through the rain to go where exactly?

Just chuck them outside with a bottle of bubble bath. Job done.

My kids (4y and 18m) love splashing in puddles in the rain. But we've done it so often lately that they are bored of it and don't want to go out in the pissing wet. I don't blame them.

Soft play expensive and you don't get a rest when your child is that young. There is only so much time a toddler will spend looking at books in the library. The park is no good in the rain as all-in-ones don't enable sliding, and the monkey bars are too slippery to grip. Waiting to go out the second it stops raining (for a grand total of 20 minutes) doesn't work when your child is having a nap or eating lunch.

I'm with you, OP. It sucks.

Wait, I'm supposed to bath my kids too?

To be fair I always buy a seed ball when I take my kids to see the pets.

This made me chuckle!

im very unwell with a toddler and we are lying on the sofa with the tv on because i cant lie in the garden and let him run around in the rain. It’s perfectly acceptable to have a rainy tv day every now and then and these comments are hilarious.

I’m sure some will say YABU, but we have had more than our fair share of shit weather now.

It would be nice to go out without raincoats, wellies etc and just enjoy the sunshine.

Aw, 16 months is so tiny, but at that age as long as you’re interacting with them it won’t kill them to miss out on the outdoors for a few days.

Go out in the rain when it eases off a bit, even if for a short time. Can you visit friends at all for a change of scene? Also soft play during the school day is a good bet - I remember taking my ds when he was at cruising age (so just before age 1 I guess) just so I didn’t have to be right behind him all the time!
Swimming also good.

Make the most of these things this week before it’s half term and it’s heaving!

Im quite glad my DS is at holiday club most of next week now I’ve seen the weather.

Oh god, the “no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing” lot are out in force I see. Ignore them OP. I once saw a poster refer to them as “puddlesuit wankers” and I have to agree!

It is shit going out in the pouring rain. And even worse when it’s windy too. If you have a soft play near you then I’d try going to that. Or maybe invite a friend with a similar aged child round for a cup of tea?

Then they get to secondary school. There's not much that stops my 15 yo playing football. They have no lockers so the bags go out with them. His school bag smells like dead wet dog.

"It's carnage in the rain, knee slides in the mud, ha ha ha"

I do a lot of sport. I don't mind running in the rain (just the first 5 mins are a bit grim as you get wet, but it's not too cold this time of year). So yesterday, between the two of us, we have 2 sodding pairs of shoes, my rain coat from a lunch time walk wasn't dry by the evening, my shower proof jacket from running club is a bit shit so that'll be damp for a day, all the actual clothes (mostly quick and easy to wash and dry so not a problem but still.....).

It just gets a bit tedious. I don't have much space to hang wet clothes or dry wet shoes.

Literally no one is doing this 🙄

I didn't, but this year the pouring rain has been relentless.

I can't help thinking that those saying just wear waterproofs/your children won't melt in the rain and other inane, unhelpful comments probably haven't had the torrential sideways rain that posters are complaining about here.