To be annoyed when I see a small child in a T-shirt & skirt with bare legs & no coat pushed by a mother wrapped up to the nines!???

[HillarysDancingInTheFairyField]

I know its noting to do with me but it really makes me cross when I see a mother wrapped up with thick jumpers and coat on pushing a buggy with a tiny child in dressed in just a thin T-Shirt & skirt with sandles in this weather its freezing today!

You can see the child is so cold wind blowing into them, especially here where the wind comes off the sea

Saw this quite a few times today walking through town

Theres no way on earth I would let my dd's wear any of that! They look like sex objects not children!

preggers, isn't it just awful?????? DD said she liked it and I told her I would sooner die than allow her to wear that thing. Let's all sexualise our children, and when they start shagging at 9 be shocked and upset and wonder why.

It gives blokes the wrong idea I mean if you went on holiday with your dd's looking like that who knows what could happen.

yep.

i know boys are no safer then girls regards pervs, but in some ways i feel relieved i have boys as i wont have to worry about short skirts/dresses/bikinis/makeup.....

hopefully!!

I felt so sorry for this little baby girl today though she was dressed like a bratz doll. I was frozen and I was pushing a double buggy wearing 5 layers including a down bommer jacket, I was wishing I'd worn my gloves!

Agree Next summer directory swimwear is DIABOLICAL this year - all skimpy triangle bikinis for all ages.

But to OP - never criticise until you have walked a mile in their shoes. Having travelled so much, I would never criticise parents who have their child out at midnight or even 4am because I don't know if they travelled in from NZ the night before.

Also when DD was only about 13mo, I brought her back to the UK in mid-Feb from an NZ summer. We had NO winter clothes, having been in NZ for a couple of months and southern US before that, nowhere seemed to have any left to sell and she wouldn't keep a blanket or cover on her in the pushchair.

Boys are so much easier. All they want to wear are jeans and trainers (although mine is only 1.5 and all he wants to wear is ....nothing )

Hi there SueW, I appreciate everybody's circumstances are different here however the girls of Essex tend to dress their babies in a certain atire, which can look lovely but on occasions it can be rather unapropriate.

Have I worded this right?

lol at that monk!!
ds1 spends most of time neckid!
whips his nappy off and is running about squealing!

Hillary, i'm not in essex bt so know what you mean...it's not the ones that won't take it or whatever...they do it for the sake of it, the Kid is afashion accessorie(sp?) and that is thst....and also, not being funny, I do face major tantrums with my rather obcessive 2 1/2 year old, and tehre are things I will give in, too, and things I won't...and if it is about being dressed reasonable appropriate in whatever weatehr that would be one of those...saying that, wiht him, I will face tantrums anyway, no matter what I try to dress him in and no matter the weather conditions...so, I might aswell push my will, eh!

OH and I am sickened at the sexualising clothing that is about, and am so happy I have boys, cos it isn't half as bad, lol

maybe the child had been sick or something - surely it is up to the mother what their child wears not you.

By DD is a hot child, always shedding layers of clothing off regardless of weather. Have had judgemental odd ladies come and tell me off for it in the past! Drove me amd and I still have no idea how I held my toungue with my responses to them.

I wouldn't feel sorry for these children - chances are it is through their own choice in some way!

if the child was sick it shouldn't be out though, surely...you will not have a child, no matter what their healthstatus out in a summerry outfit if there is a freezing chill...taking the keeping the cool bit a bit to far, imo

Yes my DD1 threw an almighty paddy when we asked her to wear her coat on a cold day - DH told her that she would never see Postman Pat again (I don't quite know how he wanted to uphold that punishment) I said that if she wants to be cold, it's her choice. Coat went on 5 mins later.

I try not to pick a fight with with dd1 on this subject, in the hope that she will stop being stubborn in the dressing area.

so, in what they eat we as parents make the decision, and what they wear we let them make the decision,...I don't get it...surely we as parents are obliged to keep our children safe?

margo this isn't about Kids making their minds up within a few minites of being exposed to the cold, but kids that have possibly no choice

FairyEdwards the child was not sick it was a fasion accessory the mother was the sick one.

I know you are new to this site but you have already upset alot of people today & I fought your corner earlier, perhaps you would prefer to take a less direct approach to not offend anyonelse.

But (being devils advocate here) how do you know that they have no choice?

Once they're about 2 or 3 kids are very particular in what they wear-

i.e. girls in princess dresses
boys in fireman sam outfits
refusal to wear tights or things around their neck etc?

Younger than 2 YO? well yes it's their carers decision and the child has no choice at all

The point I was trying to get at is you are all saying about your child not wanting to put their warm coats and tights etc on but this child was dressed in an attire which didn't have a coat or tights etc. There was no option of would you like to wear your coat DC. NO mummy I don't ....

The DC was in a mothercare jazz stroller (the little pink one IYKWIM) and the mother had no luggage or coats or anying attached to the pram. There was no coat or blanket for the child at all.

This child was about 13 months or maybe less!

nmo I meant maybe she had been sick on her clothes and her mother was taking her home wihtout the clothes on.

I once shouted at my child in the street becasue she had made me cross and a woman came and told me off but it was none of her buisiness.

Aah now I get you! She was travelling light with no extra clothes or blanket.

Then yes that is wrong

it is hard when you see things like this but if you do not know why then best to leave it. if you saw her again would you say something?