To be annoyed by parents that..

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.. follow their kids around at the park not letting them do anything incase they get their clothes dirty?
There's always a a handful of them every single time I take the dc's to the park.

Why would you take kids to a muddy park in clothes you don't want to get dirty???

No, but I couldn’t give a shit what other people do really. Not something I’d get worked up about.

Never noticed it TBH

Surely if you take children to the park, they don't wear anything too good because they're bound to get dirty. I've never seen parents follow their children about that, more because they want to keep them in view.

Still it's their business, nothing for anyone else to worry about.

Never noticed, to busy making sure my own are safe and having fun

Why do you care? I am the most laid back lazyparent ever and do vaguely notice the “risk and mess avoidant” parents but I couldn’t care less that that’s how they choose to parent.

I don't normally pay attention to what other parents are doing but I seem to hear 'don't do that you'll get your clothes dirty' about a million times over every time we go to the park recently

They probably also follow them around to keep them safe and ensure they don't hurt themselves etc

Also it's not the following them that annoys.
I do that too because ds2 like to climb up things then get stuck

Just the taking them to the park then not letting them play

It's definitely strange. Like those parents who stop their children doing anything in the park and then wonder why the kids get bored so quickly or are in a cranky mood. I get that some kids are more prone to accidents but why take them to park if you don't want them to play with anything there.

Never noticed this.
TBH the parents who are fanatical about their DC's clothes, don't even let them go to the park ...

I've encountered them numerous times. It does seem to be setting yourself up for unnecessary stress to resist the natural consequences of putting a child in a situation where they are very likely to get grubby, in an outfit that is too fancy or intended to stay clean.

I said that to DS2 the last time we went to the park.

I’d looked over to see him lying down and rolling around in a patch of mud next to a muddy puddle. He claimed he’d fallen over but if so he was making absolutely no effort to get back up again.

I don’t mind his clothes getting a bit mucky at the park, but deliberately rolling around in mud is taking things too far.

great you feel the need to post about it

Parks....mud....puddles...

That what washing machines are for 😁

I have asked the DC when they were younger if the park visit has been a impromptu visit on the way to somewhere else.

I agree with you op though I have been guilty of this a few times. The odd times we have passed a park on the way to somewhere I would rather dd didn't arrive covered in sand and dirt.

@RedSky you would think so bu t nit always the case. I took a group away to pgl for a long weekend having stressed that they will get wet dirty and muddy please inly send old clothes and trainers you dont mind getting dirty. So of course someone came with brand new white converse, someone else came with a brand new pale pink fluffy jacket type thing instead of a waterproof jacket. I think some people just dont understand kids get dirty.

I don't do this but personally I would be too busy playing with my own kids to hear/care what other people say.

For all you know they may have been between appointments and killing time etc so needed to keep the kids clean.

I've only seen this once or twice, if this is something they do regularly (not just when they're wearing something special that was a gift from grandma) then I pity the kids.

What HopeGarden said. I don’t mind a bit of dirt, but deliberately getting clothes dirty for the sake of it isn’t treating things (or my time) respectfully imo.

Like helicopter parenting?

My mother did this but she's proper batshit. She only really cared about what things looked like to other people so she took me down the park because that's what you're supposed to do with kids but she also wanted me to stay clean because what if we saw someone we knew. That middle class scruffy children thread that is going on right now would have driven her up the wall.

Is it definitely to stop them getting dirty? We follow DS because he’s a toddler and needs supervision. I would probably steer him away from mud if he wasn’t in his wellies, because who wants cold feet?

Our friends follow their 6 year old because their DS has ASD, and has issues with hitting other children.

I do find overly fussy and overly protective parents annoying. I am aware that they have no direct impact on my life, but, yes, I find them annoying.

Is it just a Christmas thing? Running off some energy before popping to see grandma in nice Christmas clothes?