To think it's too cold to send DC's to school in shorts?

[OneLittleChicken]

There is a boy at DD's school (age 5) who wears shorts almost everyday, it was 1 degree today and utterly freezing, aibu to think it's too cold for shorts?!

"it cannot be good for their health". Sorry, but that's hilarious.

My friend's 3yo DD was wearing ankle socks with a skirt this morning. She never seems to feel the cold and rarely wears a coat despite the stress that it gives her poor Mum.

If the child isn't bothered then fine. If the child is cold then that is a different matter entirely

All the pupils at ds's school except the year 6s wear shorts. Ds decided he wanted to wear two pairs of socks today! They can wear their tracksuit bottoms at break time.

When I was at primary school in the seventies/eighties, boys weren't allowed to wear long trousers unless they hit the magical height of five feet one inch! The rest had to freeze! But then I didn't wear tights and I survived.

At my state school in the 70s80s boys had no choice but to wear shorts until they started what is now year 4.
Girls had to wear skirts and I dont remember tights being allowed? Im sure it was long socks.

I think its weird though - who would choose not to cover their legs in winter, most odd. (especially as the teachers obviously wrapped up warm!)

Just peeking up the thread I see that in quite a few schools boys still wear shorts all year round -chilly legs!

Cake - agree, don't think tights were invented when I went to school .

yabu
my dd is in a tshirt
she gets too hot at school(sn school way too hot)

My idiot DD2 has been wearing socks and a skirt above her knees this week
Yes her warm trousers were in the wash, but she has perfectly good thick tights!

At our primary school the boys weren't allowed to wear trousers until the final year. Even when it snowed. My DB and all his friends Made it to adulthood unscathed. My DS would wear shorts all year if it was up to him. Unless the kid looks miserable I'd say chill and don't worry about it!

DS1 is 5 in year 1 and he'd wear shorts every day (with knee length socks!) but I told him no shorts until after half term. I see girls in skirts and socks even in winter, which is the same.

And he cries every sunday morning as the swimming pool is too cold.

At the kindergarten at my boy's school the uniform is shorts with knee socks. And yes that's what they wear all year round even when it's minus 10.

Oddly my son's biggest concern when he went to Junior school and had to wear long trousers was that his legs might get too warm!!!

Ooh maybe you're talking about my DS? He's in reception and regularly wears shorts, because he wants to. I ask him each morning what he wants, tell him if it's very cold outside, and let him choose. He's big enough to understand about the changing weather so I don't feel I need to dictate to him what he wears. He often asks to take his coat off in the park too....

YANBU - but I didn't grow up in the UK, so in my case maybe it is cultural... I have come to appreciate over the years that maybe some small English children genuinely don't feel the cold, and that it will not damage their joints, weaken their circulation, give them belly colds and let the cold air infiltrate their brains (all the things I was indoctrinated with as a child) but deep down I still feel they should be dressed warmer and I find myself wanting to tell the parents that, but I bite my tongue and look away. In my home country I would tell them :) without any hesitation.

As a mother of two children who'd rather not wear clothes at all, YABU to think they are suffering in any way.

Normally yu have to pay to have blue chapped knees all winter.....

Hundreds of years ago when I was primary age, it was absolutely the norm for boys to wear shorts all year round. What the blithering crikey is a 'belly cold' anothermadamebutterfly?

i wonder if you are talking about my son? yr1, faith school not far from the sea? he goes in in shorts and i insist on hat and gloves as i think if his core/hands/head etc are warm then cold legs are irrelevent. his body, we ask if he wants trousers he says no, he can't run in them. only shorts at home too.

There is a boy in my daughter's reception class in shorts today. For a split second I thought "why would you put him in shorts" and then looked across at my daughter with no hat, no scarf, no gloves and coat (that I had to shoe-horn her into) flapping open because everytime I did it up she unzipped it again and realised why the boy was in shorts.

I'm sure people see my daughter ansd think "do her coat up and give her a hat" but the hat would just come straight off, there's no point.

So in summary YABU

fluffiphlox, hehe, I have no idea what a tummy cold is, I have never had one and never come across anybody else who has actually had one, and spent many years trying to figure it out myself! but according to the over-60s in my family it will give you endless suffering, churn up your insides, damage your changes to conceive and do all sorts of horrendous other things.

Blimey, butterfly!

YABU. DS1 will not wear trousers for love nor money. He just doesn't feel the cold. He will have to put his coat on before he leaves the classroom, but he will have taken it off before we even get out of the playground.

I have suggested that he wear trousers over his shorts to go to and from school, but no, he is happy in his shorts.

I prefer to pick my battles

I smiled to myself when I started reading this post - I am in my 60s and I know my husband had to wear shorts (all year round, of course) until he went into the Sixth Form, ie aged 16! My son is in his 30s and he had to wear shorts all year round until he started middle school at the age of 9. And don't forget that with global warming winters are warmer than they used to be!

DS is at a school where the boys wear shorts all year round until y4. He never seems to be cold legged, but they can wear their jogging bottoms over their shorts at playtime if it is cold.

I always thought if your extremeties were warm (hands, feet, head) then the rest of you doesn't get cold. No idea if it's true for everyone but it works for me - and I have Raynaud's syndrome. I'm sure he's fine.