to feel like a crap parent for not taking children sledging?

[ivehadtonamechangeforthis]

I have a 16 month old and a 2.10 year old (so just shy of being 3).

Both children have colds and conjunctivitis.

It is -3 where we live and only a light dust of snow, roads are clear.

Spoke to a couple of friends this eve and they can't believe I haven't taken my children out sledging or at the very least to the park. Feeling really guilty. Anyone else not been out 'making the most' of the snow?

Mine are 7 and almost 4.
They hate being cold. Just the walk to school yesterday had them both howling.
My 3yr old managed 10 minutes in the park on the way to pick up my eldest and then was cross, cold and damp.
My eldest made snow angels on the way home, which was fun for a minute, but then he got cold. I haven't even mentioned sledging, I dare say they'll decide they want to and then change their minds 30 seconds after arriving in the park.
I've never been sledging.

Ive promised to take mine today but wish i hadnt

Ops dc are only tiny so easily get away with not doing it!

We haven't left the house all week and we don't even have any snow. It's absolutely vile out. Provisions are running low so I'm planning on a takeaway for tea. It's freezing out there..........I keep getting to the front door, muttering no, not doing it then scurrying back to the safety of indoors !!

YANBU - they are too little anyway and who takes ill children out in this kind of weather!? I have very sporty active dd(9) and ds(12) and even they don’t want to be out in it this time!

It is sub zero and blowing a gale . We had enough in December to last us for this year, my dc are showing no interest at all. Last time in normal dry post-snow 2 degree-type weather dd1 was out for ages and dd2 lasted about 10 minutes I think she takes after mil with her aversion to the cold

I reckon Sunday is when the sensible will go sledging.

My 20 month lasted all of 4 minutes in the garden yesterday before want to come in and play with kitchen.

Yanbu

We don't have have a sledge - I don't know where I would keep it in the 4 years between each snow day! Mine aren't bothered about sledging.

It's freezing and your dc are poorly, you'd have to be out of your mind to take them sledging just now.
FWIW I took my dc sledging once in their lives and it was a miserable experience,they whinged and moaned and we went home wet, cold and miserable. The sledges didn't really get used until they were old enough to go with friends after that.
Dd 15 hasn't left the house since the snow came, she hates the cold and the snow,if she's happy then so am I. If anyone suggested she was missing out then we would both laugh tbh.

My children are 24 and 21. I have never taken them sledging! They don't hate me for it!

Fuck that shit

I'm not buying a sledge that's going to sit in the garage for years at a time as it snows in Bristol so infrequently. My 6 year old wanted to make a snowman after 5 minutes he'd had enough the 16 month old hated ever second.

Snow is shit anyway

Never taken mine sledging. Tbh they’re all absolute fairies when it comes to the cold, they quite literally howl just from walking in the cold so I don’t imagine it would go down well. Plus we don’t get snow often in this country and I don’t want to waste money on three sledges .

My 3&4 year old dc. Have only been on the sledge, as it’s been the easiest and quickest way to get them to and from school in the snow. (It takes further to get to the school than we are as the crow flies. And for some reason it never shuts for anything)

We don't really have any snow. Kids want to go play out but I know it will just be a muddy mess if they do. If we get proper snow I'll take them out until then nope. Plus I'm already freezing with the heating set to 22, so venturing out really doesn't appeal 😂

I've been wondering this. We have just recovered from a 3 weeks lurgy-they went down like dominos!
My 9, 5, 3 and 10 month old have been wearing pyjamas and playing hotbeads/knex/making dens/reading...but mostly watching tv under blankets for 2 days now!
Feel bad seeing all these brave people sledging and building snowmen. Mine don't want to go outside but maybe I should make them?!

It's too cold to go out, don't feel guilty at all. My DD1 (nearly 9) has been out but didn't enjoy it as it was too cold, but DD2 (nearly 6) hasn't been well so we've been holed up at home where it's warm. I hate snow at the best of times, but when it's this cold and you have a child who is unwell all you should do is stay in and stay warm.

When I had croup, my DM wouldn't let me go out in the snow, so she and I watched through the windows as DF made a snowman for us. He then went down with pneumonia. You can go too far with trying to be a good parent.

We went out for 45 minutes, we were both wet and frozen by the end of it...

I wouldn't go out with a poorly kids though.