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)

Scooter in the park? Or playground?

I swear to God if i go to the park and you ask me how many kids were there i won't have a clue!
How do you do it? How do you notice what others wear or what they eat? Sometimes when i read these threads i feel that i might have a mysterious illness. Watching my own kids is hard enough let alone other kids.

I'm glad they have gone home, I was waiting for your next update to inform us the children where naked as they seemed to get less and less clothes with each post you made!

another story where many do not agree with the op so the story gets elaborated more facts are given

Maybe they have a coat refuser like dd - sometimes its easier to dress her in layers as will just take off a coat.

I'm glad they have gone home, I was waiting for your next update to inform us the children where naked as they seemed to get less and less clothes with each post you made!

Exactly what I was thinking

My dd is always hot. She is 8 but since a baby se has been hot , same as my husband. She would never wear a coat so for years I carried it around in case she got cold but she never did. She is still ths most underdressed in the playground. She has coats and hoodies and gilets but she chooses not to wear them , she is the healthiest child I know , very rarely gets I'll . Theses kids were probably running around and getting hot. Adults rarely break into a trot when out so are bound to be colder. I would go nuts if someone said something to me about dd being neglected because she had no coat on....yabvu!!

My teenage coat refuser chose a very practical and stylish ( - not a word I thought would ever be associated with this garment again) Parka snorkel this week.

Oh don't be daft. I saw them get off the train as we got on it, I posted op, then we got off and went back to the park where I got a closer look. I'm surprised at how even handed and non judgemental you all are but I accet iabu :)

lol @ Laquitar :).

Were they screaming & crying from the cold, OP? I sometimes get that when DC refuse to wear coats. It's pretty obvious when a child actually is too cold.

You know, maybe it was a deliberate strategy on the parents' part to make sure the kids didn't stay too long at the park, & wouldn't be awkward about going home again? Quite cunning, that one.

Coming in a bit late here but , I have to fight with my kids to get them to put proper winter coats on and my youngest attempted to go to the local shops with shorts on last week and I had a real battle to get him to wear trousers, kids don't always feel the cold like is adults, lucky buggars!!

Neither my ds (10) nor I feel the cold particularly. My DH and my DD do though, so whilst they will be wearing 10 layers ds and I will wear 2.

Due to the fact that everyone is different I would say yabu to judge on this occasion

If I had £10 for every time I had an arguement with DS1 and DS2 about putting a 'proper coat on' instead of their hoodies I would be a rich man.

Sometimes it really is not worth the arguement.

The thing is OP

If your child (scooting round whilst wearing 4 layers of clothing) constantly complained of being too hot, I'm sure you'd act accordingly and dress him in less clothes in future.

I have 3 DS and the middle one and youngest one would seriously look like a tomato by now. Instead of waving every time they passed me, they'd be flinging layers of clothing at me.

My eldest however, is 20 tomorrow and even now, he sits indoors with a coat on.

Everyone is different. I don't know how many DC you have, but if you're only basing your judgement on your own child, you're not really seeing the bigger picture.

yabu my dd does not like bulky clothes and appeares to not feel the cold but i worry about the cold on her chest, she has a lovely fleacy gap hoodie that is 2 sizes too big, she always wears this and not a coat, but she leaves the house with 4 layers underneath one of those a ski skin type vest. she generally delayers through out the day when we are out, particularly in the park where she is running around she will strip down to just the ski skin and fleace.

Children wear coats when their parents are cold!

I know of few children who will wear coats - hoodies are soooo popular. My DD (17) is wearing a coat this winter (faux fur i.e. fashion) and it is the first winter she has done so for years. If a child refuses to wear a coat and is then cold then it is him/her who is responsible. Agree with all who have said that coats are unnecessary and bulky for running about in the park. My mother went for the emotional blackmail angle, 'She would say, 'If you don't wear a coat you will catch a cold and then I will catch it!' She said this up until the time she died - I was 58!

also as a baby my dd would hate to be swaddled or gloved she seemed to adore her hands being freezing, she would only fall asleep in the pram if her arms where out of the covers, she was born in 2006 a particularly cold march. I spoke to my dr and health visitor who said the hands and feet bear no relation to core temp so even if her hands where blue with cold this would not alter her core temp, in normal british temeratures. This was particularly helpfull to my ds whos ds would take his shoes and socks of in freezing temps.

Mine often wear hoodies - over long sleved tops and thermal vests - they get hot!

I have one child who seems immune to the cold - she probably looks deprived of warmth and freezing - I consider it a public service to give people the opportunity to judge

they are off horse ridding in a bit - without thick winter coats - I am going to parenting hell

YANBU, but I am an evil mother who forces her children to wear down coats between September and May.

Running about a park in big coat would have been awful with no flexibility.

should at least have others layers on though..

YANBU, but I am an evil mother who forces her children to wear down coats between September and May.

I literally have to wrestle my son to put his coat on. He doesn't feel the cold as much as I do and I also remember as a child myself that I wasn't too bothered about a coat lots of the time. I find it sad that it takes.so little for people to judge.

YABU.

Are you in Hove park? (it has a little train).

My son has just run to his friends over the bridge wearing just a football top and jeans. He hates coats (he is 13).

Parenting is hard enough without this kind of shit. At the other end of this "logic" is all sorts of nastiness op, beware.

My boys of that age would wear just a long sleeve t-shirt if I let them. I force them to wear their hoodies. No chance for coat, unless it is below 0 (not happened this year)

They run around like wild puppies, whilst I wander slowly....and it's me who gets cold.

I saw some kids in crocs and t-shirt today, but then again, it is a very mild winter down south here.