To ask if you put coats on to get from your house to your car?

[PatterPitter]

We have to drive to school and are usually parked within 100 yards of our house. Obviously the DC can't wear coats in car seats so we just walk quickly to/back from the car and leave coats in it. Our NDN and her son always put theirs on and as we all currently have colds, it's left me wondering whether I'm doing the wrong thing.

The States has also done rear facing much longer.

People have been doing it here for years. And ds and his friends are only just turning to forward facing at age 4.

@PolarBearGoingSomewhere

I don't bother but I get bloody pissed off by baby group leaders commenting on "poor little Polar, did mummy forget to put your coat on?"

Cheeky fucking bitch!

I hate that passive aggressive kind of shit. I hope you just say 'NO! I did not forget! My baby doesn't need a coat on, for the 20 feet trip from my car, to the baby group.'

Feel free to be rude, she is quite happy to be a passive aggressive twat who is trying to make you feel bad!

This is the kind of passive aggressive shit my nan used to come out with towards my mother, and then later on - with me (when I had my kids!) 'Awwww poor baby, hasn't mommy put your coat and hat and scarf on? In October too! You must be freeeezing, you'll catch your death of cold!'

head tilt, and sad face. >>>

I never wear a coat in the car by the way, and I never put them on my kids in the car either. They won't feel the benefit of it when they're outside. Don't people know this basic fact?

Won't feel the benefit! i say his to Dh and he's

We do. DD isn't in a harness seat and our van is bloody freezing at the moment because the heater needs gas or something.

No I've got an internal door to the garage

LOL! @Bummybum

Ds is 5.5 and in a five point harness seat.

Dd2 was in a five point harness (and rear facing) until past 7.

Dd1 (now 13, so this isn’t new-fangled!) was in a five point harness and rear facing until nearly 5 (and she was hugely tall, so this isn’t about size of child either!) So no, not all school aged children will be using adults seat belts.

Bulky clothing is still not great when using an adult seatbelt either.