To think some mothers are just SHIT.

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Today at Legoland it wad raining quite heavily. I saw a mum and a little girl standing outside the toilets. The mum was dressed warmly and the little girl (about 5 yrs) had shorts, T-shirt, cardigan and a pair of Crocs. She was cold and visibly shivering. The mum said "take your cardigan off" so the little girl took her cardi off and the mum proceeded to place the hood of it on her head ( a la Batman stylee) to stop her fucking hair getting wet?!?!
Some mums are just SHIT and no, IANBU.

What do you do when your dd would rather drag the coat after her by the sleeve than put it on????

YANBU OP, if this woman really did take her child's cardigan to protect her own hair. As has already been said, most parents would be the other way around and give their own coat or cardigan to the child to keep them warm.

I think the bloke from Eastenders broke his own relationship up though, given that he was the one in it.

YANBU. There are some very weird people about, many of whom should not have children.

YANBU :(

That sounds terrible. I am always cold and don't drive, so am equipped for all weathers for me and my son. But he is always hot! I am always carrying his coat and asking if he is cold, to the point where he is fed up with me going in about it. On the outside it might look like he is not appropriately dressed but he swears he's fine. No that this sounds like what you saw. I'm just feeling defensive! :)

YANBU, OP.

In defence of the shoeless/sockless child's mother in one example cited, my DD once stripped hers off whilst Christmas shopping, freezing cold in December. I kept putting them back on her, she kept taking them off (she was in buggy). She also kept removing her coat. She had never done it before, nor since, so I had no sock-ons or other preventative devices to help me. I got countless catsbumfaces that day.

Baby DS has already shown sock-removing tendencies and sock-ons have been purchased to crush the rebellion!

In no way defending the woman in OP's example, but I do understand the shoe/sock thing.

I will confess to being a bit of a numpty WRT sending DD to nursery in normal shoes rather than wellies on wet days (didn't factor in nursery's policy to play outside in all weathers!) but have sent in some of DD's old outgrown warm coats etc to nursery for them to use as "spares" for equally disorganised parents.

I would rather freeze my own backside off than see my DCs suffer though.

I freely admit to being a shit mum. One mum at school even acosted me at breakfast club the other day when the heavy rain came down and flooded swathes of the south east. Why? because my daughter is a total madam and refuses to wear tights! There we were in the slinging rain waiting to be let in and my little madam stood there with a big grin on her face in a summer dress, ankle socks and shoes and her big ski-coat waterproof hooked over her arm and her school sweater in her backpack.

Other mum 'felt the need' to ask if we were alright at home because dd never seemed to wear tights, 'even when it was snowing' and had 'bright red knees' and she was concerned. I thanked her for her concern and pointed out that I provided the clothing for her as I had my other child (who opts to wear it, being slightly more savvy about these things) but her choice was to stand there like a loon freezing in the rain. If I put the items of clothing on dd she'd take them straight off again. What am I to do?

There is no accounting for freedom of choice in children.

However. The mother in the OP isn't a bad mum. She's a downright shithead of a mum.