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AIBU?

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Original poster

Or is DH? Socks inside question please.

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Feminine · 02/12/2011 15:31

We live in a cold climate right now...and

DH has completely bent himself out of shape as (dd nearly 3)

likes to run around barefoot in the house, we have the central heating on :) and she is dressed otherwise.

I don't think it matters, she does have a cough/cold type childhood thing but is not particularly sick...

He is (as I type) getting more and more livid...

what say all of you?

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bebemoojem · 02/12/2011 15:35

Is he Chinese? My Chinese neighbor has an absolute fit abt this... I think there's nothing wrong with it personally. At 3 she can tell you if her feet are cold yes?My dd1 hardly ever wears pants of any kind now because we're potty training... I just make she her top half is well dressed and let it be... if she says she's cold we put the nappy back on and some trousers...

SanTEEClaus · 02/12/2011 15:37

The first thing my 2 and half year old does when he gets home is take off his shoes and socks. If he's feet are cold he brings me his socks to put on his feet.

Leave her be!

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Feminine · 02/12/2011 15:37

No, not Chinese...he is American.

Right now we are in the Mid-West...he grew up here with harsh weather conditions ...

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AgentZigzag · 02/12/2011 15:48

DD1 (10) is the same, it took DH until she was about 7 to stop going on about putting her slippers/socks on

But it was drilled into him by his Dad.

She just likes her feet to run free

InfiniteFairylights · 02/12/2011 15:50

My DD is the same at 4 and a half, I don't understand it because I hate to have cold feet, but it is up to her. If you put socks on her I presume she takes them off again, so what does he propose? Tell him to get used to it, by this time next year she could be going through the phase of stripping down to her knickers when in the house

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 02/12/2011 15:51

If you have laminate floors socks just let them skid all over the place anyway don't they?
My lot have about three pairs of slippers and slipper socks each and get their own if they're cold. Not a hill I'm prepared to die on. They aren't allowed to complain about cold feet though

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Feminine · 02/12/2011 15:51

Thanks agent for a really laid back man ,I think he is now approaching a melt down

I will show him this.

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lynniep · 02/12/2011 15:53

Its far better for a childs feet to run around barefoot. If its in the house and the heatings on I cant see the problem AT ALL!!

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Feminine · 02/12/2011 15:54

fairylights I am honestly starting to think he wants me to follow her around ,putting them back on

Thanks to all ,you have helped me realize I didn't skip a chapter of "what to expect"

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NewShooz · 02/12/2011 15:58

My DD is nearly 2 and is always pulling her socks off. No matter how cold it is, she pulls them off within half an hour of me dressing her. I used to keep putting them back on, but I don't see the point anymore.

AgentZigzag · 02/12/2011 15:59

My DH is pretty laid back too Fem, but the conditioning is hard to undo -

See unslippered feet - shout 'where are your slippers?' ...'insert blah blah of choice from DD1'... 'weeell find them and put them on!'

Bartimaeus · 02/12/2011 16:08

DH hates wearing socks without shoes - maybe your DD is the same?
I'm wearing 2 pairs of socks and slippers . DH will just wear slippers

TheHumancatapult · 02/12/2011 16:17

Femine

My best friend is from there and was shocked about my kids not wearing slippers/socks or me last time I visited

Can I ask is it first winter out there ?

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Feminine · 02/12/2011 16:32

the human DH is from here, so has endured many freezing childhoods ...but that was in the 60's/70's ~heating not quite so effective.

The first snow fell a few days ago...its melting now though

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gallicgirl · 02/12/2011 16:35

Sheesh, he's lucky she's not running around naked, quite frankly.

Colds are caused by an air-born virus, bot by being cold or wet. If you have the heating on, she's hardly going to get frostbite or hypothermia.

VikingLady · 02/12/2011 16:37

I think its just a conditioning thing - whatever you grew up with is normal. DH finds it weird that I go barefoot most of the time indoors, and never had slippers as a kid - that was normal for us. He has two pairs of slippers and a separate pair of house shoes. Seems a waste of money and effort to me, plus being bad for his foot health.

Similar discussions on the necessity of pyjamas til he realised there were benefits to that ...

Expecting arguments on spending good money on unnecessary stuff for dc1...

lljkk · 02/12/2011 16:39

I am American & I would run around barefoot (indoors & out). It may be a culturally Midwest thing with OP's DH (I grew up in unheated drafty California homes).

People from the Midwest do weird things like go in the ocean with their sneakers still on.
Or on the beach, strip clothes off their all-over pure white skin, get an instant bright red deep sunburn, and go about bragging about their tans.

People from the Midwest are strange.

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