to go for a walk in the rain with my children?

[RainWalker]

DP thinks so

It's only really drizzling here, I want to get out of the house, the children will sleep anyway and will be warm, covered up & have a rain cover. I'll use an umbrella.

AIBU?

no - they will not melt

Of course not. Mine play out in the garden in the rain if they want to.

Perfectly fine

yanbu.

I send mine in the garden with biscuits in the rain. They haven't gone rusty yet.

YANBU

DS loves playing in the rain.
I'm not keen on getting wet myself, but a drizzle is perfectly manageable.

Mine did 2 days ago - they started off with umbrellas then gave up had hoods up and they paddles in puddles - I had a change of trousers for the car home . I was fed up of staying inside.

He is Italian, and thinks that the children will get ill if we go outside

YANBU at all.

My dd loves the rain! Puddles are great fun

Yanbu. DP is being an idiot a little overprotective.

Mine love to play out in the rain and get muddy and wet - it feels naughty! And the best bit is coming in and taking off wet clothes, jumping in a hot bath then snuggling up in front of the TV with some milky hot chocolate. We've done it loads over the holidays, to the extent we look out and go 'yippee it's raining again'

Go for it!

YANBU if it's only drizzling. Where I am the rain is lashing down sideways and the wind is ferocious. Not a good day for a stroll.

Hmm. Normally I'd say YANBU but just started to train SO hard here that I can't see out of the window clearly! Proper sideways, sheeting, you'd be soaked down to your knickers rain!

Looks amazing...from indoors!

I wish you were my mum. I was never allowed out the house in the rain when all I wanted to do is go splash in some puddles.
It's free and fun, go for it

Normally, it's a bit high today, DD will go for a swim walk in the ford.

Rain walker tell him that Rosa's children are Italian and they survived ok ......

There was a brilliant funny piece on radio recently, I think World Service, about how the Italians suffer badly from so many cold weather ailments that the British never heard of, you should look for it on iPlayer/iPod thingie, OP.

Go go go... it is blowing a dark gale here & heavy rain, & we will go out anyway (3 errands to run).

OP I live somewhere with similar culture to Italy and they have exactly the same thing. No one will go out in the rain if they can help it - builders don't work, the medical centre was amazed when I turned up with the DCs in the rain.

I had to teach myself the phrase 'they don't melt' and repeat. But locals truely believe that they'll get ill and it's almost impossible to disprove

DH is north african so took a bit of time to adjust to me taking the children out in the rain. I did point out to him that if you live in Britain you will be keeping your children in for half of the year if you try to avoid the rain.

YANBU. They will be fine you DP is being over protective.

A bit of drizzle never hurt anyone. I would take ds out if it was only drizzling here, we don't like being stuck in the house. I had to go and see to horses earlier and got soaked to the skin, I was glad that dh was here and I didn't have to take ds as I'd planned, simply because the wind is so strong, there are branches, roadworks and all sorts flying about.

this is what lljkk is talking about.

Just went for a run. Started off freezing and getting drenched and finished off in beautiful sun! If you live in the UK you can't let the weather stop you getting on with your life!

Moving from the UK to a Southern European country, I was a little surprised that the school did not ask for wellies and a rain coat for the break. Instead they asked for a large plastic rain coat for the short walk to the canteen.

But then we struggle to convince my dad that DS actually feels too hot and doesn't need snow equipment to go out in mild weather.

Are they wearing shorts? Took my DS out for a bike ride today in the wind and threatening rain, in his shorts. Definitely not unreasonable. I still struggle with the children not being allowed out to play at school on rainy days.