My twins attend a local preschool for three mornings a week. Since they started I have had issues with them arriving home at lunch time with soaking wet sleeves and trousers where they have done outside water play, and hands that are red raw from being cold and wet.
On Thursday upon dropping them off, we were told not to take coats/hats/gloves off as they were going o play in the school field next door. I raised my eyebrows at the time as it really was a very cold, frosty morning.
A hour later I got a phone call to say my twins needed collecting as one was very poorly and falling asleep/eyes rolling in his head, and the other 'had come out in sympathy' and was crying hysterically.
I collected them and brought them home, but I think they we're just utterly freezing. They were absolutely fine the rest of the day. All the other children were playing happily back in the warm so it was only mine.
I'm not sure if I am just being precious. They do love playing outside, even in freezing cold water and wet sand, no matter the weather, but I think their bodies use find it a bit much. They were born very early, and only weighed 1lb 3oz at birth but to look at them now they have caught up.
Would I look a twat asking preschool to keep them indoors until spring? Maybe my twins just need a bit of toughening up? They will be three in January if that makes a difference.
AIBU?
To ask my children's pre-school not to let them play outside
AitchDee · 01/12/2012 12:44
"your park have a micro climate that has different weather to your local nursery's outdoor area??"
Nope, but my home has this amazing technology called windows that allow me to use the power of sight to see that it is raining and decide not to go until it stops.
And if I'm in the park and it's a bit nippy, my toddler has developed an extraordinary facility whereby she tells me that she is cold and wants to go home.
I didn't say that nurseries should not ever let children outdoors in winter.
Just that there should be no requirement to send them in dressed for a hike in sleet.
That means that if the weather is especially unpleasant (which never lasts long in our changeable climate) the children can stay indoors rather than go out.
It won't do them any harm 
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"Just a small point but I very much doubt the children had their hands held in the water while they were forced to play in it!"
These children are toddlers!
The fact that they will allow themselves to get freezing cold and wet playing outdoors in water doesn't mean it is a good idea for them to do it.
Shit, we wouldn't need nurseries in the first place if children of that age could be left to their own devices with no ill effects.
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Athinginyourlife are you seriously saying that if you look out of the window and it's raining you don't go out? Has your toddler never experience jumping in all the puddles as it raining heavily, or a strong wind blowing in his/her face, or the feeling of snow on their hands? Are you that adaptable that as soon as your toddler says its cold you go home? What about if your out with other people, or need to get other things done? Would it not be easier to buy some decent outdoor clothes rather than let the weather dictate yours and your child's lifes? After all I reckon it's going to be pretty cold, and no doubt wet for a fair few months now
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