Were your parents sun worshippers?

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Mine were. My dad was the worst for it; the slightest hint of sunlight and he’d shoot out, shirt off, just lying for hours and not moving. My mum didn’t do it at home but she did on holiday.

Age has made me understand some things my parents did a lot more but that is something that still hasn’t really hit me. They didn’t read or anything; they’d literally just lie there for ages without moving, baking to a crisp.

They were both 1945 births. Not sure if an age thing or just something my parents did.

Yes, mother was, 1957, tanning oil and burnt to a crisp

No, definitely not. Born 1936 and 1942.

Nope but my nan was- she used to slather herself in oil and bake in the sun for hours. As a result, her face looked like a worn leather handbag for as long as I can remember her. My other nan never went in the sun and had beautiful skin.

Put them next to each other and they looked like the difference between bread and toast. It taught me a great life lesson about protecting my skin from the sun (tan nan ended up having to have pre cancerous lesions cut out of her face) and I wear 50spf as a result.

My mother called it “sun baking”…

i remember my grandfather would lie in the garden, must have been born around 1910 or so

as a teenager i remember using ambra solare oil

yes my mum was(born 1949). When it was sunny we’d go to the beach and she’d lie down not moving all day and it was boring as anything. My dad would go to the pub. Most of the women she knew and worked with were the same and they also did sunbeds. She has brown eyes and her skin goes very dark so she always got a great tan as that was her colouring. I’m pale with freckles and i was often burned to a crisp as a child as she couldn’t get her head around the fact I’d different skin type to her

Yes. 1944 and 1947 births. Always out lying in the sun whenever they could, dad used to use veg oil to fry himself quicker. Sun cream was used on my sister and me but only factor 8 or 4 which I don’t even think you can get these days. We always holidayed in the UK but I do remember being burned.

My mum was, my dad not at all - he hated the sun, just like I do. They were both born late 40's

I'm glad my mum saw sense about 20 years ago however she did sadly get skin cancer - luckily picked up very very early and dealt with but I dread to think how bad it could've been

It is interesting to read how many sun worshippers didn't get skin cancer.

My parents both born in the 1930s were as others have described, out in the sun in Factor 2 Ambre Solaire for hours. DM still does as often as she can and at 85 has never had skin cancer.

They always dragged us out as well and I can't think of anything more boring than just lying in the sun doing nothing. Both of us used to burn regularly as children.

I went the opposite way with mine and they'd be in factor 50 and sun hats. I don't remember that any of them ever had sunburn.

No, but then both parents had very pale skin and burnt easily

No. My mum would ‘sunbathe’ a bit but only for ten minutes here and there. Both parents were very active people and neither of them spent much time lying or sitting down doing nothing- whether it was sunny or not. On family holidays we were more likely to be going to markets, visiting historical sites, going on a bike ride etc rather than sitting around in the sun.

Despite the fact they weren’t sunbathers, Dad got melanoma (probably from sunburn he sustained as a child) and it didn’t end well for him. I don’t sunbathe and I stay in the shade most of the time.

Definitely!

Born mid 40s. Dad didn’t sunbathe but would work in the garden without a shirt, Mum and her friends slathered in factor 2 or 4 getting as brown as they could.

In the 80s they went on sunbeds before each holiday so they would arrive with a tan.

(Me in factor 12, hiding in the shade because I would turn lobster at a hint of sun, and factor 12 was as high as it got in the 70s)

My mums a sun worshipper. Born in 1959. She’s out in a bikini as soon as the suns out, when I was younger, before we went abroad she’d rent an at home sun bed to get a head start on her tan. She slathers herself in factor 6 oil and lays out and I’m there sat in the shade in my factor 50.

Yes. To be fair I love the sun too and never burn but am naturally dark skinned and don’t look like a handbag or have skin cancer.

My DM was and still is, to a degree, although now she's in her 70s she can't cope with temps over 30 degrees. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s she would be out on her sunbed for hours with just SPF6 oil all over her and a bikini with the shoulder straps pulled down so she didn't have tan lines. She loved to be brown. She has a lot of sun damage to her skin now, unsurprisingly.

My DF - not so much. He'd be out gardening and pottering in the sun and he'd read a book on a sun lounger on holiday, but he didn't sunbathe.

Not one bit. Perhaps because my mum had sunburn as a young child.

My dad would have considered such behaviour the mark of the terminally lazy, but did have a very marked tan on his face and lower arms of the sort you get from working your arse off in the sun everyday but only ever removing clothing to the extent of rolling your sleeves up. Mum hated the sun, and though she was out in it a lot to garden/ work she always covered up.
My Pil otoh were/are complete sun worshippers and FIL spends the summer in a pair of tiny shorts getting the maximum UV wherever he is. His skin is like dehydrated leather

dm is 90 and still sits in the garden when it is not too hot, wearing a hat

Our sunny weekend afternoons consisted of my father lying on the grass - no sun cream so his skin burned then peeled. My sister and mother would be in deck chairs drenched in sun tan oil so they smelled like the local chipper. I would have a throbbing headache because nobody thought I should be wearing a hat then having to be covered in calamine lotion due to chronic sunburn ' again no thought of sun cream.

Yes, parents born 1930s. My mother would lie out in the sun as much as possible, plus we often holidayed abroad when I was a kid. Dad, too, would sit out a lot, shirtless. Neither used creams.

Yeah my Dad was and still is. He would lie out slathered in baby oil (yes, really). Has a year round tan, he was a painter and decorator so worked outside a lot.
I'm very surprised he’s not had any skin problems to be honest.
Born in 1946.

Nope both born 46. But agree with others that they weren’t careful however. Occasionally got burnt and never put on sun cream. My dad would actively avoid the sun if possible. Not for burn/cancer reasons, he just didn’t like it. My mum said when she was young in her 20s she enjoyed sunbathing on holiday. I used to do that when I was 18-22ish then stopped. Which I’m very glad about now.

Oh this will horrify some on here I’m sure. My mum actually used to get taken to a kind of sun bed/UV ray type place as a child in Scotland!! It was meant to help increase vitamin D I think?? To help with illness etc.

Parents both baby boomers.

My mum was a sun worshipper until the age of about 60.. She’d be outside slathered in oil at the first sign of good weather. We managed to get her to use factor 15 at a push in later years. Now knocking on 80 and covers up in the sun.

My Dad didn’t sunbathe, but he worked outdoors and has never worn sunscreen, a sun hat or sunglasses in his life. I’m surprised he hasn’t had skin cancer to be blunt!

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Mine born in 1930 & 1932 didn't lay in the sun, Mum covered up completely as was Scottish pale and burnt at the sight of the sun.

We were brought up in Singapore and Dad played golf a lot so had a golfers' tan.

We never used sun cream and played outside or at the pool everyday, but we all like my Dad tanned easily without burning.

Luckily enough none if us have had skin cancer.

I think I remember her saying something about trying to make out shapes/movement that she thought she could see in it.