to judge parents whose children have sunburn?

[StrandedBear]

Seriously there is no need for children (or adults for that matter) to get burnt. It is fairly easy actually, suncream, cover up, stay in the shade between 11 and 3! So when I see a small child with bright red shoulders I want to shake the parents. The sun is dangerous! Then again most of these parents resemble over done lobsters themselves.

Is it a lack of education? Or do they actually not care about the possible damage to themselves and their children?

SPF 15 filters out approximately 93 percent of all incoming UVB rays. SPF 30 keeps out 97 percent and SPF 50 keeps out 98 percent...

theodorakis let me point you in the direction of the sudocrem aisle

Heat is no indication of sun intensity...

Sun is more intense:
Closer to the equator
Middle of the day
Little atmospheric filtering (clouds/smog/ozone layer)

You can very very sunburnt walking in the snow in the alps (high up so less atmospheric attenuation, plus reflection from snow)

I don't judge, everyone has been sunburnt at least once haven't they?

Personally I hate sunscreen, I would rather cover up with clothes and a hat. In this weather I'm just keeping DS out of the sun rather than putting sunscreen on him and so far so good! He has a nice olive skin to e, so I'm hoping that will be good protection for him when he's older unlike his pale mum!

Gosh, I've lost track of how many posts there are claiming there child has a lovely/nice/gorgeous olive skin tone

No wonder there are so many sun burnt adults wondering around.

All skin is beautiful...fair just as much.

I have 2 with an olive tone, and one with very fair ...all lovely , all needing to take care.

DD is lily white (like me) with very blonde hair (like her father) and if she is anything like either of us a little lick of sun will result in redness.

I plastered sun block on my DCs on Tuesday and did myself at the same time everytime. We are all ginger fair skinned, so I know I have to do it often. The DCs are fine, still Casper the Ghost white. I am lobster red and don't understand why!!

I have to admit I sometimes judge adults who walk around sunburned...it just seems so stupid, if it is too hot, just go in the shade, unless you can't of course for some reason. I think I would be better off not judging them, but when they seem to not care about it it bothers me as I know someone who died from skin cancer, and it really increases your risk, well as far as science knows so far anyway.

I did judge some parents this morning in Tesco as they encouraged their small children to take handfuls of pick and mix sweets and eat them without paying, and did the same themselves.

Me and my own children were like and that's rare for us as we're pretty laissez faire.

Sorry, I don't mean to say I'm thinking everyone who is sunburnt is stupid, just, I don't understand how they don't notice it happening and just move into the shade?

Is it because people are busy talking to others or in a situation where there is nowhere shady to go - or working in the sun, or just...just I don't know.

I suppose I'm fortunate to be free to listen to my own body and if I think I'm going to burn I just cover up somehow. The only time it gets out of my control is if I'm driving longer distances and the sun is coming through into the car at a certain angle, you can't really control it then.

I was sunburned as a child and remember the pain.

It is hard not to judge when your own DCs don't burn easily. My DCs wear F50 and don't burn but I know very careful friends who apply cream frequently, avoid the sun and their DCs still burn so it does happen!

AKMD,

To be completely honest it's not That difficult. Staying out of strong sunlight, sun hats, long sleeves etc.

I have tried so many different lotions and potions that I feel it's not fair to put my child through that. A light tan is not the end of the world.

I apply factor 50 reapply often but still burn in strong sunlight.
This is an incredibly self righteous thread.

If I see people sitting in the sun going pink I really want to offer them some sun-screen ! Anyone else find it hard not to butt in to leave well alone ?

'I wouldn't judge someone who got caught out by accident. Shit happens. But I have a few friends that seem to think a suntan doesn't happen without burning first. That drives me batty. My BF doesnt consider a holiday any good until she looks like a lobster - and that is just barking.'

This, basically...ex-dp was rather stupid and insisted on going red so that he would then turn brown (or orange, he was fairly orange much of the time) but he was also the type of person who would take someone else's antibiotics for a virus that was gone within 48 hours anyway.

Such a complete dickhead.

A genuine minor sun burn accident is fine as long as the parents use learn from the incident and better protect the kids in the future.

When ever I look at sun tanned people I always just think sun damage. We all need only minutes of sun exposure each day to get our vitamin D.

I put sun cream on my kids on all sunny days. I always tell them that they will thank me when they are 50 and only look 40!

Yanbu op. I'm judgey about it. I apply factor 50 to the kids before we leave the house in this weather. There's no excuse.

They say that 15 minutes would get you vitamin d. If I spent 15 minutes without sun protection I would be burnt already. I am always pink in the sun but by night time I'm back to blue white again.

Holyfishnets, seriously? A genuine accident is fine etc. Are you the sun police?

I remember being told that once you start to burn, applying more sunscreen won't help at all. Maybe it would be better to put sunscreen on before you venture outside then reapplying before you start burning and coming inside if you do start burning.

Two of my kids and I go brown at the slightest provocation (we are all very tanned, and we live in NI, I think it's been sunny for ten minutes!)

We all wear factor 20, but wouldn't burn anyway.

DS1 is the whitest child in the universe, but he can't wear sunscreen (allergy response to sun made worse by creams etc). If you saw him on a bad day when I used to use cream on him, you would have thought he was burned, but it was hives.

Just sayin'

Why is it automatically parents' fault?

My ds had a sports day at school. It was cold in the morning, but he had a bottle of sun cream with him. It got hot. He came home burnt. I was not happy. (understatement) but I would not appreciate you judging me, thanks.

Similarly, my other ds was invited, last minute to go swimming at the local lake. Had to leave in a hurry. He is almost 13 and puts his own suncream on. It was hot. We gave him cream and strict instructions to put it on the minute he arrived, to stay in the shade as much as possible anyway etc. He returned really red. FInally admitted to only putting it on when it start to hurt . I was annoyed with him. I was annoyed with the family he went with.

but I don't think we were at fault.

You don't know how or why they got burnt. stop judging people!

Yes because sunscreen doesn't ever rub or wash off with children playing etc

Have you tried keeping a child in the shade for 4 hours when its a nice day and they want to play??.

YABU.

Well lastnerve What you do is you make sure they come back to you every hour or so for re-application. Or you just say no. It's not actually that difficult

What forcing children to stay in the shade?

bit cruel tbh.

just put more on and let them play its common sense.