to think this is a bit strange?

[MrsDeathOfRats]

Last night I had a weird sort of bicker with DP.

Last week, in Lidl, I bought loads some kids clothes. Namely the fleece leggings for girls and some of the 2 packs of tops.
The tops had one round neck in and one turtle neck. I though this was great. Warm for winter.

I out one on her for nursery yesterday, and DP saw when she came home. After she was in bed he told me not to put turtle neck tops on her or ds again.
His reason is 'they cause illness'. He claims that they keep the throat warm and then the next day when you go out without it the throat is exposed and vulnerable and therefore you catch an illness.

AIBU to think that is a total load of crap?

When DD2 developed bronchitis in Spain in August in 40 degree heat, MIL was convinced it was because the DC weren't wearing slippers . Fortunately my Spanish us adequate enough the get the paediatrician to tell MIL that his only concern for the DC's feet would be if they were barefoot in the snow!

We live in a high rise block of flats and the wind last night was gale force. Kept my DC awake it was proper whipping round the building.

DP came out with another gem. Convo went like this:
Me - that wind is horrendous! It's actually making the traps in the sinks move!'
DP - I know. Don't worry, just another 2 days'
Me - 2 days? Forecast is much calmer for tomorrow.
DP - wind like this always lasts 3 days
Me -

He does amuse me

What will his justification be if it stops tomorrow, op? I await with interest.....

Since living abroad I have been warned of many things by intelligent and highly qualified medics. Last week I was told off for having cold water, it gives you a fever. Out doctor signs children off school if they have been to a birthday party the day before because they will have a fever from the excitement. As for pets, most paediatricians here in Qatar tell parents their children will definitely die from allergies if there is a cat in the house. We have 9 cats and 4 dogs but are still alive. In Cairo I was sent for IVF "just in case you need it". Africa and Philipines were mainly about people not living as long or being as clever healthy or beautiful if they were born during rain. Offered inducing in both coutries because rain was coming.

Bless him, he sounds sweet. I wonder if there actually might be some truth in his thinking.

Continuing the derailing. Where I live, we have turtlenecks (folded or scrunched or straight) and mock-turtlenecks (or short turtles, folded or not). I've never heard anyone use the term polo neck. Not going to even bring up cowl necks. The terms polo shirt and Lacoste shirt (tennis shirt usu. has longer back) are used kind of interchangeably along with the term golf shirt -- a golf shirt is actually (more?) different due to its having unbanded, looser sleeves and a pocket. I don't really mind that I spent too long thinking about shirts, but I do resent the lack of a warning by one of the posters concerning the possibility that elves do not exist. That was so unnecessary.

And I'm beginning to agree with thickgit. He sounds nice, all things considered.

Aw bless him. Mine thinks people catch colds from being cold.

MelcombeBingham My Philipina MIL was most concerned that our wedding would be on a new moon...it was near, so phew!

I'm Italian, so I've heard and secretly believe all sorts of wierd health theories.

Not a new moon!! 🌛the very motion.

Sometime I am going to research and plot on a graph Ethnicity/Culture of Origin vs Ideas about Appropriate Layers of Clothing.

My son was born in an ethnically diverse part of London just before a very hot summer, and at HV weigh-ins parents of African/Asian/Turkish extraction had them wrapped in (to me) sweltering amounts of clothes, and almost always hats and socks, even in a heatwave, compared to white parents of babies the same age. I assume different cultural ideas about cold and illness?

On a day when it was over 30 degrees, DS was lying happily in his nappy on a rug in the shade in the park, and a youngish Turkish woman actually came over and put her hands on my (very warm) baby and started telling me off for how underdressed he was! And I looked up and her entire picnicking family were tutting and shaking their heads...

Growing up in Ireland in the 70s, the obsession was with sitting on cold steps giving you piles...

My mum once told me that I must always wear a long coat or I'd catch a chill in my kidneys.
I have since educated her as to what bacteria and viruses are.

God help me.

Sounds archaic.

Cigars how funny that I subconsciously ensure Dd's vest is tucked in so her lower back won't catch a chill. Exactly the way my parents did to me looks like DP isn't the only loony parent in our house after all!!