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)

YABU. Mind your own business and stop judging others. You know nothing of their circumstances.

YABVU

My 2 boys have spent much of the winter so far in shorts and t-shirts. I often wonder if people are looking at us while we're out and judging me for the fact that they don't seem to feel the cold. Now I know that some people are...
Oh well, I'll just keep repeating my little mantra of 'it doesn't matter what other people think'.

Oh, and I have a great photo of them playing out the snow last year in flip-flops! Obviously not the best idea, but after a short 'discussion' about it I decided that they would soon come inside and change if they were cold.

My mum alsways used to force me to wear a coat, and I remember being boiling. Why do adults think kids are too stupid to know how hot or cold they are?

"It also seems unlikely that all 3 are coat refusers."

You're kidding right? Since the dawn of time small children have been copying their older siblings or other children. Whenever we get together with my sister and her children her youngest, a girl, will demand one of us do her hair on the same style as my DD who is 9months older. If my DD takes off her cardi/shoes/knickers then you bet your last pound that DNeice will immediately do the same.

Maybe the younger ones were copying their older sibling?

Seriously unless the kids were all crying that they were cold and the parents were barking at them to man up and refusing to give them their coats or take them home I'd keep the judgyness to myself if I were you.

I would just assume that it was their choice. If you were ever on playground duty at school you would know that some DCs will wear coats only if forced!

where were you that was so cold ? i was wandering around the field this morning wearing just a t-shirt it is so mild , thats the north of england .

Mind you i do have a very generous layer of penguin fat on me at the moment

It was 10 degrees this morning when my ds was playing football in shorts

I'm on the south coast. It is lovely and mild now but it was cold earlier!

YOu don't want to be anywere near my DD then, she thinks if the sun is shining then she should be in shorts and t shirt. She also turned a fan on the other day as it was too hot.

I am in my 30's. Up until a year or so ago I didn't wear coats. I hate the feel of the bulk of a coat without them being actually as warm as they should be based on their bulk. Even in 2010's snow I preferred to wear 3 thin layers to a coat- my main top, a thin jumper and a chunky hooded cardigan over the top with a scarf and gloves, I was really cosy.

YABU. I dressed DS (18mo) up in a woolly hat and full coat last week to run about on the playground - he was hot and soaked with sweat when I took it off. Now I'm a coatwearing Mum with a hoodied child.
Also they might have had thermal underwear under their clothes and been even more toasty.

Pass any school bus stop tomorrow morning and you will see all the teenagers who are under dressed for the weather! If it is raining half of them, boys especially, will not have rain wear.

YABU this is the conversation in our house, "Dd and Ds put your coats on it's cold out" " No we're not cold" "IT IS cold out put them ON" "No really we're not cold we've got our hoodies on and tops underneath" "Ok then but don't come to me saying you're cold" "No Mum we won't" So I give up and they never seem to feel the cold!

My DD has been known to walk around in a T shirt in January, to scandalised looks from people on passing buses. If I offer her a jacket and she says No, then I'm not going to waste time arguing about it

Arguing with the kids about coats seems to be the biggest waste of time and energy EVER.

I spent much of my childhood refusing to wear coats, while my mum said, "It's cold, put your coat on!" What she really meant was, "I'm cold cos I'm really old not 5 years old and full of beans like you so put your coat on."

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

That was probably more of a "helloooo? mum? It me, your son... you know.. the one you brought out to play... "

"hellllloo mummy... get off your phone"

"helllllllloooooooooo muuuuuuum look at me"

OP - I'm on the South Coast and I can assure you that it is very far from cold today. There's no wind and all is calm. Cold is what it is not.

Are you always this interested in what other people are doing?

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight Sun 08-Jan-12 15:05:00

I'm on the south coast. It is lovely and mild now but it was cold earlier!

No it wasn't.

yabu

you get my first

Glad you've agreed YABU.
I have 3 dcs - between them they must have 12 or more coats. It is rare to see any of them wearing one. I, on the other hand feel the cold and may well be wearing 2 at once. They are reminded / prompted / have it pointed out to them they will be cold, but if they then choose not to wear / take a coat, that's their decision.
ds will normally wear shorts at any time of year. He's at a big Winter Camp this weekend and will no doubt be wearing shorts for most of it. He not only doesn't feel the cold, he actually emits heat (as does dh). You'll never see him in a coat, but that doesn't mean he doesn't own them.

Blimey judgey is right. I used to go out in a silly top short skirt and sandals.... in the snow! when I was 17 / 18. my parents should have been hung

You WERE in Hove Park weren't you?

YABU! And bloody well judgy.

Its been 10degrees here today. We have ALL had tshirts on. Where are you op?