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?!

At my DCs' last school, boys had to wear shorts all year round. The parents all thought it was v.unfair, since girls get to wear tights but TBH the boys never seemed to mind. My DS2 has Aspergers and will not wear long sleeves so he is going to school still in a short sleeved shirt. He says he doesn't feel cold in school, and i do at least insist he has a vest on underneath. The teacher makes him put his jumper and coat on at playtime .

If the child was cold he wouldn't wear them

At the age of 5 I don't think it was him that made this dress choice!

Yes of course its too cold to be in shorts

My DS wears shorts for school and short sleeved shirt (with tank top over the top). We live in the north of Scotland.

I spend my life shivvering and wrapped up in scarves, gloves and the rest, but DS and DD (not at school, but still light on clothes) insist that they are NOT cold.

I've given up arguing with them. They've got extra clothes in their bags to put on if need be.
I've got better things to worry about

At DDs school the boys are not allowed to wear long trousers until they are in Yr 4 (Prep). However the little ones can wear their tracksuit bottoms when they go out to play in cold weather.

I know fluffi, it does sound pretty bad, my mother was foreseeing the Brits dying out when she came to stay and saw how my DD's schoolmates were dressed in the winter ... Mind you, they never seem to get ill much, but then neither does my DD, who is always hatted and scarfed and gloved...

Stupid ponsy school rules then ay.

"At the age of 5 I don't think it was him that made this dress choice!"

Do you have children??

omg do you live in hartfield?

ahh have read whole thread now, and have found that I can reassure my friend that her son is NOT the only 5 year old who will only wear shorts

Yes I do have children Soup.

I still wouldn't let my child go out with shorts on in this weather, get a grip.

"My child won't wear anything else"

My child would due having the shorts removed and being given a choice between long trousers.

I rather think you need to get a grip, Mojito. If the child has chosen shorts they clearly aren't too cold in them.

I pick my battles with my children, reserving them for those that actually matter rather than dictating everything.

Regardless, your assertion that, at 5, he couldn't have made the choice himself is clearly wrong.

I rather think you're still the one that needs to get a grip Soup.

I agree with picking your battles with teenagers but not little ones.

I saw a boy at the weekend in the park with, I asume, his mum and sister. Mums and sister dressed to the nines (and it was chilly). Boy in swimming trunks (knee length, blue with boats on them) and slip on shoes (no socks). He had a top on an open jacket. He was probably about 9 or 10 and they looked pretty middle class (so not 'they cant afford any clothes'). He didn't even look cold!

Why do i need to get a grip? Given that I'm not the one wailing about how it is so unsuitable for a child to choose to wear shorts in this weather?

We were at the Glasgow Science centre at the weekend. We went out at lunchtime to take ds2 for a walk in the buggy to get him off to sleep. DS1 was wearing shorts and a hoodie and said he wasn't cold at all, despite it being absolutely bitter outside.

When we went back inside, almost straight away, we stood in front of the thermal imaging camera. My fingers were showing up blue on the image as they were freezing but ds1 was glowing red and white all over - including his legs.

I believe him when he says he's not cold. I'm sure there's nothing worse than somebody moaning at you, telling you that you are cold and insisting you wear trousers when you don't feel cold at all.

Now, if we were trudging through 2 feet of snow every day to get to school, I would probably insist that he wore trousers, but he is walking 5 minutes from the car to the school and running around during lunch and breaktime which keeps him warm. I just don't think it's a big deal.

He would have a choice soup, he would have a choice of which long trousers he would like to wear.

No one is "wailing" soup. I personally think its not the right attire for cold weather and also shiver a bit when I see people (not necessarily children) wearing shorts in this weather.

My child may also "decide" he's wearing swimming trunks to go see the Christmas play at his sisters school - guess what, he isn't.

Ds has to wear shorts to school and I feel so sorry for him. I warm a blanket on the fire for him to have over his legs in the car as he always says they're cold. On the plus side though he always comes home with grazed/muddy knees so I'd have got through a lot of trousers in the time he's been there! I do think the little ones should have an option to wear trousers though when it's exceptionally cold.

If a child chooses to wear shorts then I suppose that's OK. But I cannot understand sending a child to a school which enforces the shorts only uniform thing. I would wondering what other ways it was old fashioned and "never did me any harm- it'll make a man of him" in approach.

DD (Yr 6) would happily go to school without her coat, even this week (20 minute walk with bus journey in the middle).
We compromise. She can stuff her coat in her bag if she wants as long as she has it with her.

Yep, one of the wear a coat brigade here. What he chooses to do when out of my sight, isn't something I can do anything about. But he certainly gets sent out with one. Wearing red wellies isn,t being a sent out in the cold for instance really is it.

DH had to wear shorts all the way through primary and one of the schools near where I lived also insisted on this for boys. Going back a generation I think it was considered perfectly normal all year round. According to DH it was considered better because otherwise little boys would always be putting holes in the knees of their trousers.