To judge a family where the parents are dressed in proper coats and three dc are just wearing hoodies?

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

Tis shit, no? It's cold today, we are in the park, three dc aged about 3-8, all looking chilly in track suit type tops. No excuse I don't think (utagsn obv)

Um we do layers rather than one big coat in winter so mine really only wear hoodies

Underneath said evil parenting hoodies: base layer- t shirt -jumper- said hoodie

Also my nine year old plays out in just a t shirt - he runs round like a loon so stays warm

Bare legs! Not us. all girls in our parks had tights or trousers on that does seem a bit remiss.

It's their choice.

If they are cold and uncomfortable then you will hear them complaining, asking to go home, maybe even starting to whinge and cry.

Or are they playing happily in the park?

You will be feeling the cold more as you are clearly sat or stood texting, not running about playing.

A friend of my dh and his wife wear full on coats whilst their newborn is in a sleepsuit with a blanket ~ I judge and I don't care what anyone says!

Yes I am in the park! Poor DS. I am bored and hungry hence my judginess probably. But every other child here is in coats, hats, gloves etc. I'm on the south coast, it is cold today.

If the children are playing in the park & the parents watching/supervising, surely the parents need warmer clothes?

Two of mine were coat refusers. DD still is.

I feel the cold terribly.

I wonder what I look like to other people as DD runs about in just a hoodie with a top underneath and I'm wrapped up in 4 or 5 layers, a coat, hat, gloves, scarf and am complaining loudly that I'm bloody freezing

YABU - sorry.

YABU ,keep your beak out

Boy is wearing cut off trousers! 2 inches of bare leg showing! This is surely an example of slightly crap parenting?

DS is happily playing btw he doesn't care what I'm doing...

Ah, we are up North. We cope with the cold better Quite normal to see children running about a park having shed/not worn coats, and to see parents stood shivering at the side wearing a big coat.

Oh well ,I'm sure your superior parenting is giving you a warm glow

Are the other children upset, crying, complaining, asking to go home......?

One of DS's friends still wears shorts all winter.

I have pics of him on his bike last year in the ice with long shorts just below his knee on. He has done this as long as I've known him. He's now 19. I don't think he's likely to change now.

Seriously, if the kids were cold they'd be complaining.

Yab very very unreasonable!!!

What us it you are exactly judging though? Do you think it is abuse/neglect or what?

And why are you not interacting with your child? You are on mumsnet in the park? You clearly don't have your gloves on then!!

My ds keeps trying to go to school in shorts (I don't let him). He never wears his coat and I just learns it with his other stuff he just doesn't feel the cold and is always running around. I spoke to his teacher in case she thought I was an awful mum and she said no wonder hes hot he never stops !

No one else's business upto them what to wear.

You sound just as bad op!

Also, my brother attended a school where the uniform for the entire primary years for boys was shorts. Grey short school shorts, not long cut off trousers.

He survived.

DS is almost three and will scream blue murder if you try and get him into his coat right now. Sometimes the battle is not worth it, we can spend ten minutes fighting him into gloves and coat and hat while he screams and cries and then the second we step out the door he flings them off and runs away. Even leaving him for a minute or two to realise how cold it is has no effect, he still doesn't want to put his coat on and will immediately take it off if we try and put it on him.

Vests, layers and a thick hoodie are our only effective outdoor clothing options at the moment.

I can just imagine these people logging on to MN tonight....

"AIBU to think it's crap parenting to take your child to the park, and then sit there ignoring them while you post judgey threads on an internet forum?"

Stones and glass houses etc...

Local boy's school has shorts as their uniform all year round. You see them happily running about in shorts even in the very cold weather.

DD choses to wear socks with her school skirt in the winter. I let her.

They have gone home now probably cos the kids were freezing

My son is scooting round the park shouting hello everytime he goes past me. He's fine.

YABU sometimes DS goes out in a hooded cardie while we are in coats. Under his cardie he'll probably have a knited tank top, a polo neck, and a vest.
and he's moving constantly.

chilly? it's balmy here, haven't had heating on for day

find something else to judge fgs

Maybe they had those thermal layers on underneath, all the boys are wearing those now..... Ds has them and they are v effective!

In fact, he only really needs to add a hoodie over the top and he is fine all day, even in the worst weather the south coast can throw him