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?

ds got a little burnt in a patch on his arm in australia with factor 50

judge me all you want op what difference does it make to ds it just makes you feel the better parent, which obvioulsy you are

and yes of course i felt bad about it

he is very fair and i do not put sun cream on him as soon as the sun is out as i feel he needs the sun to get to his skin, i guess that makes me a bad parent too oh and he had mcdonalds the other day to add to my i am a terrible parent list

the op jsut wants to judge, didn't you bugger off a few weeks ago, maybe i am confusing you with another whiny omg look at other parents how awful they are blah blah blah

LaQueen what are you banging on about?

at you too!

I was actually more judgemental of the Dr I used to know, who's children were NEVER allowed out of the house without long sleeves, a hat and a Nanny. EVER!

Oh I see Queen you removed some of my comment to suit your response. ,

Well, whatever.

My MIL would probably take you out and shoot you Stranded for talking such nonsense. She doesn't need sun block as she's been sunbathing for 70 years and it shows and so feels free to criticise me for slathering the stuff on.

I wouldn't exactly judge other parents though. I have the benefit of being descended from pale skinned ginger haired family with absolutley no tolerance, and burning to a crisp frequently until I took charge myself. A lot of parents don't think the way I do cos they're not paranoid like me

I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again.

Some of us have spawned children who randomly singe in the dingiest, dullest summer days imaginable. ds1 burnt his face so badly he needed steroids in March in the west of ireland on a twenty minute walk home from the pool. When I brought him to the gp he couldn't believe it and kept saying 'Really? Here? But it wasn't even sunny yesterday!'

He doesn't always burn and I use suncream if it's even faintly sunny and he's going to be out in it but when he does burn it's nearly always on days where we're hard pressed to understand how! I'm starting to think it's windburn rather than sunburn he gets.

He's much better than he used to be. They're at a sports camp this week though, it rained monday, drizzled tuesday, was dull and damp yesterday morning when they headed off. It dried up during the day though and the sun peered out so ds1 singed before I collected him. He was fine this morning though, he tends to go very red and then fade to light tan overnight.

It's all confounded by the fact that he goes beetroot red in the face when he's hot though, so usually I can't tell if he's burning or just hot

I was burnt regularly as a child. We used to go camping a lot. We didnt use suncream (I am not sure you could get it then) and I would get sunstroke/burn every time it was hot.

It was bloody awful and has increased my chances of getting skin cancer as an adult by some stupidly high amount.

I am just glad that my kids are darked skinned and dont burn. I use sunscreen and hats/tshirts etc but I know I have a lot more leeway than other parents with v.pale children.

I often look at red headed/blonde kids and think 'how do their parent's do it?' It must be really hard.

Its not 'easy' to prevent sunburn unless you dont go out. There is always a bit you might miss with cream and it wears off. I think it takes quite a lot of work to prevent it.

My niece got horribly burnt feet when she was a baby. Just a few inches sticking out from under the sunshade on the buggy. My poor SIL was mortified.

People with a Celtic colouring can burn at the drop of a hat. It's avoidable with planning but can happen easier than you think.

Dd got a bit of a burn yesterday she had spf 30 on her face and body and we went swimming for all of an hour and a half and now her cheeks are burned. She has lovely olive skin and so this was very odd for her. Not exactly sure how that happened
I only get my judgy pants on when it's tiny babes with a burn and the parents have no burn. Even them shit happens and kids have sensitive skin.
For us hottest time is not until nearer to 4pm, so we swim at noon or wait until about 7pm.

This is mn where you somehow have issues if you dont let your children run around in the sun butt naked.
A little sunburn is the price you have to pay to be such a liberal freedom giving mummy

Mrs De Vere - Yeh, we never used sunscreen as children either - except a couple of times when we went abroad and lay sweltering on the beach all day with a lick of factor 6 if we were lucky ! I got nastily burnt a few times as a child too - especially back and legs. Owww !

i go red in the face when i am hot, very red at times and i have olive skin and go very dark (never in this country though, has to be hot hot sun) so being red is not always about being burnt but your skin going red (for some time even when you are out of the heat) before it tans is burnt skin not tanned skin

ds goes very red when he is hot too he has celtic colouring but he does tan very slightly with his light golden red hair it is surprising

our local A&E every year has children admitted with serious burns, not just one or two but almost daily, the local news always runs warning at this time of year,

we spend most of time on the water or at the beach, you see some horrific cases,

on occasionally we have had to phone ambulances to the beach,

anyone who allows a child to burn is neglectful, there is no excuse,

readwhat the Australian Cancer Council has to say they have turned round the skin cancer rates with their slip,slap,slop campaign and education, so much so that now we have a worse problem than them,

Oz and new Zealand have made massive efforts as they were having such high numbers of young adults getting skin cancer, because they had tanned as children,

you get your full vitamin D dose from the sun before your skin changes colour in anyway, so anymore and you are doing harm not good.

those down under are way ahead than us on this, we should take their finding seriously, they have published so no excuse to be uninformed.

My DH is ginger and very pale but tans quite nicel. I burn horriby. When I was a kid I used to have huge tantrums because my mum made me sit in the shade on holiday.

My ds is nut brown and goes that way after a day in the sun, but I still insist on cream.
Dd and I on the other hand resemble milk bottles, and positively blind onlookers with our paleness.
I have a red chest due to rosacea which does look like sunburn, despite the factor 50 slathered on and being in the shade for 4 days.

It can happen so easily though but it shouldn't be a regular thing.

It's much harder to persuade teenagers to put on sun cream though, constant nagging there.

I would tutt tutt tutt - but then I also remember my poor dad chasing us up and down the beach with the Amber Solaire trying to slosh it on us - I was permanently burned as a child on holidays!

Yes but to be fair the need to be extra vigilant is more important in ustralia as they have searing temperatures and no ozone layer.

I never use sunscreen, I don't like feeling slimy, but then I had precursors to skin cancer maybe 10 years ago (result of teenaged sunbathing until I baked), therefore I don't go in the sun till past 4pm, and I don't lay in it either.

I must have really peculiar children because I've never used sunscreen on them either. Most people, including children (and animals) have an inbuilt sensibility to get right out from the midday heat and go somewhere cooler. That was certainly noticeable when the children were smaller - outside till 11ish, back in for lunch and a kip, back out at 3.30/4.

Even now, the parks are deserted for lone children - heaving with women with toddlers in buggies, sunshades and picnic blankets though - but no children who are old enough to be out alone. Why? because they all go home because they can.

The street has been empty of children all day, they are just starting to come out and knock for each other again now (10 past 4)

Lobster is not an attractive look on anyone. Much less lobster where different garments are being worn to yesterday and there are those awful blue-white lines on display.

Sunscreen doesnt prevent skin cancer, it prevents burning. Big difference.

I can't bear going out in this weather. I would rather be indoors on such a hot and sunny day.

FWIW someone told my gran that liquid parrafin was an effective sunscreen. So she slathered me in that. I am surprised she didn't catch me alight with one of her John Player Specials.

If you burn you are more likely to get skin cancer.

Therefore suncream DOES help to prevent skin cancer.

www.teenagecancertrust.org/what-we-do/education/shunburn/