Uptight about kids being outside?

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It's a fabulous day where I live (we don't get many of these!) and most of my neighbours and their kids are outside, either out the front on the green area or in their gardens playing with paddling pools, hoses etc. Yet again, my next door neighbours are getting uptight about their young children being out the back. I can hear them letting them outside for about 5 minutes and then telling them that it's too hot, to go inside...there was even an argument at once stage with the mum telling the daughter (of about 3) to get back in and put on her dress! I have another friend who thinks that the sun is the devil itself and that it's too much hassle to allow water fights and fun outside as it means suncream and hats etc. Am I wrong to get really irritated by this and think that we in the Northern Hemisphere really have to grab it while we can and that it's sad to hear kids wanting to go out in the sun but not being allowed?

I suffer (and I mean suffer) terribly in the heat. It makes me feel physically unwell and I often get faint and vomit if it gets too hot.

I'm also very very pale and a red head so burn just by looking at the sun. I've had some seriously bad burns in my life so am very cautious about being in the sun, I tend to cover up and always use a sun parasol as a hat makes me too hot.

I do allow my children out but not during mid day sun as I know just how awful sunburn can be (I have been hospitalised with it before)

My two (7 and 5) have spent the entire weekend running in and out, in various states of undress, in and out of the paddling pool, water fights, friends over for a BBQ involving more water fights - kids v adults. It's what childhoods are for. YANBU.

Mine have been in and out all day and have been fine, I have been keeping them regularly topped up with drinks and put sun cream on. But we go to Spain every year where it's much hotter than this so maybe they are just used to it. We are all blondies but with factor 50 and sun hats and lots of cold drinks there's no reason to keep them indoors. When they get too hot I find they naturally come inside to cool off.

I know where you are coming from OP in that some people seem to constantly stress and fuss over their kids - (although it depends on the age of the children of course).

Yabvvu .thw official advice is for people to stay indoorss. You don't know what you are talking about!

Wow. We would normally try and stay indoors between 11 and 3 as per advice. We often go to the beach in the evening as it's cooling down a little.

I feel awful when it's very hot. I remember whole days in the beach as a kid with no shade and feeling so hot and uncomfortable .

It obviously affects us all differently. I'd only choose to go out if there was shade and would actively avoid/cancel plans that weren't in the shade in this heat. (28-30).

We don't go on "fun in the sun" holidays . I didn't realise we were so unusual tbough.

I'm concerned about my daughter's sports day this week as it's all morning sat on a field in direct sun and she with find that easy.

I am careful with how much time ds spends outdoors when it is warm. He becomes unwell (hospital admission unwell) when he is too warm. He also becomes miserable very quickly.

YANBU
Some people just love a fuss about anything: cold weather, sun, screen time, school talking about the news, school uniform, e numbers, organic food etc

You're clearly not advocating kids being out getting burnt.

Sure, don't have kids out all day in direct sunlight, but with suncream, a hat and sensible clothing they're absolutely fine for a little bit without having their parent calling them in every 5 mins.

Hang on user, I'm not in England and it reached 24 degrees here at its highest. No official advice said to "stay indoors"!

We're on an amber warning today Ouch.

I think you're coming at this from the perspective of a sun lover. How marvellous- we should all enjoy it. I, however, can't bear being in the sun as I'm pasty pale, burn and feel lousy. My DDs are also pale - so we go to great lengths to keep them out of it between 11-3. Your neighbour sounds like me, in which case she's probably tutting at you for not taking proper sun precautions. To each her own!

Indeed. I think if mine were indoors most of the day 5 days a week at school I would be more desperate to get them out as well, but as they are outdoors pretty much all the time I can pick and choose a little! 😂

It was boiling hot yesterday here. 30+ (south coast UK).

We spent most of the day indoors until about 3pm when I let my 4YO blonde fair skinned DS outside in the paddling pool naked smothered in factor 50 and a hat under the shade of the umbrella!

Maybe I am uptight?! He had a great fun time, I got to sit with my book and a gin and tonic with ice and nobody got burnt or ill.

Had we 'made the most of it' all day he would almost definitely have been one of the above!

Mooey I am pale and freckly and spent all day under the shade of our garden parasol! We went out at 11 for a couple of hours and then spent the afternoon outside from about 2pm until 7. A lot of that time my kids were in the shade, they wouldn't be able for the great, even in the mid twenties. My point was not that parents should be allowing their children to get burned or suffer from sunstroke, but that when a child is having fun in the garden, in the shade, they should be allowed to!

Saw this on another thread...somewhat related

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/arsehole-neighbours-having-lovely-time-in-garden-20170619129785

Oh no I do get you Op, some people go overboard however it is also one of my pet peeves when parents don't seem to understand the risk from the sun and let their kids out all day without shade or hats!