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dh comments today

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superbagpuss · 21/07/2013 19:55

I'm ready to be judged/ flamed

we were at my sisters house and they had a sprinkler

as I had not bought swimming stuff for my ds (4) I said they could run around in their pants (trunk style) and then go home commando style

dh said that was common

I thought it was better they do that then not be able to play in the water with their cousins

was it common? what should I have done instead

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3boys3dogshelp · 21/07/2013 20:29

Oh I don't think he'd approve of me then!! Mine and friend's kids all got themselves completely naked in the garden to have a water fight while we made lunch the other day, I spent about 10 mins hunting for their underwear in the shrubbery!
I don't think we're common ( but then I suppose that's what common people say!)

pictish · 21/07/2013 20:29

Fgs what a buzzkill!

Shitsinger · 21/07/2013 20:30

The word "common" would have me stripping off to my matching bra and knickers and sprinting about under the sprinkler - just see his face Shock.
FGS tell him to unclench and stop being a twonk.

ll31 · 21/07/2013 20:30

He's completely unreasonable.

ZingWidge · 21/07/2013 20:30

oh, my kids are very common then!

a few years ago we went to a woodland type park and my boys were jumping in muddy puddles. then decided to lie down in the muddy water and pretended to have a swimming race! it was hilarious - and of course they got soaked!

I had to strip them down in the car park, wipe them with towels and they sat in the car with nothing but heir school jumpers and a grin on their faces!

they still remember it. good times.

newbiefrugalgal · 21/07/2013 20:30

Nutter

myroomisatip · 21/07/2013 20:31

What a rubbish comment! It is much more important that the kids have some fun. It will probably rain for the rest of the year once this weather breaks.

Nothing common about that whatsoever IMO

newbiefrugalgal · 21/07/2013 20:31

DP sorry in case that wasn't clear.

Bowlersarm · 21/07/2013 20:32

No, not common. Just normal.

babyhmummy01 · 21/07/2013 20:32

I don't see anything wrong with it tbh. On holiday we nipped to the beach totally unprepared and dss and dsd stripped to underwear to play in the splash pool, there were kids there aged 3 to about 13 all doing the same in an area considered to be posh.

Your dp is being a bit of a prat imo

Justforlaughs · 21/07/2013 20:33

Very odd comment, tbh I would have let them wear their underwear in the garden and then let them run round for 10 minutes before getting dressed. their pants would have dried really fast today. No need to go home, commando. Just to be clear, what did he think was "common", playing in their pants or not wearing pants home?

MissStrawberry · 21/07/2013 20:33

Maybe he thinks adults without pants are common. But you kept your pants on Confused.

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superbagpuss · 21/07/2013 20:39

thanks for all the replied

I think it was the running around in pants bit but he hissed it at me so others didn't hear and I ignored him completely Grin

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Emilythornesbff · 21/07/2013 20:41

Hurrah! for "common" sense!

Hamwidgeandcheps · 21/07/2013 20:44

Who cares it might rain tomorrow!

cuttingpicassostoenails · 21/07/2013 20:49

Poor old Bagpuss...married to Hyacinth Bucket!

ZingWidge · 21/07/2013 20:51

"One is perfectly reasonable to go commando if one is not in possession of unspoilt underwear."

From the Queen's Christmas Speech of 1987

that settles it then! Grin

Lambzig · 21/07/2013 20:59

Your DH is a loon. I expect that is what he was told as a child by his parents when he wasnt allowed to. My DM had a list of things which were common which included eating outside, combing your hair in public, watching TV and any form of public water play not at a beach.

I cannot keep clothes on DD in this weather, she takes her dress off at the drop of a hat and removes any pants I have put on her as soon as she can do it without me noticing. She is 3. She tells me she would prefer to live in a land without clothes. She has my sympathy. My DM would have been horrified.

IShallCallYouSquishy · 21/07/2013 21:33

My DD spent a very happy hour completely naked in the garden this afternoon. Ok, she's only 14 months but she seemed to love crawling/ walking with her walker around with a lovely warm breeze on her.

Nothing wrong with young 'uns in just their pants or naked in the garden in this weather.

NoComet · 21/07/2013 22:34

Perfectly normal, I've under up in Woolworth's buying dry pants after we fetched up in the sea in St Ives. Somewhat older DDs who weren't mad on the idea of sitting on the train ion either wet, or no knickers in non to long dresses.

They'd been quite happy to tie their dresses up and get soggy.

NoComet · 21/07/2013 22:35

Rats auto correct strikes again

dimdommilpot · 21/07/2013 22:41

DD (2.8) has been playing in her paddeling pool in her knickers all week because i cant be bothered to walk upstairs to get her costume. She doesnt care, i dont care! As long as your kids had fun.

NickyNackyNooNoo · 21/07/2013 22:45

My DC were actually naked in the paddling pool Shock common as muck me Wink

Your DH is a loon & needs to get a grip Grin

RNJ3007 · 21/07/2013 22:48

He's weird...

My DD (4) went on a play date yesterday. Paddling pool in garden, no cossie. I told her she could go in her pants. She just got naked and threw herself in. As did her best friend. Us adults laughed, then we borrowed a cossie from said friend as sun burned bottoms are a bad plan.

This evening she played in garden as DH got washing in, in her pants, enjoying a bit of cool down time. Totally normal.

Or maybe I'm common too!

MrsOakenshield · 21/07/2013 22:51

weirdo. DD would have got naked in a garden or in public. She's 3. Who the fuck cares!