Why won't DD go out warmly dressed???

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She's in Year 7. She's just gone to school in knee socks and a short sleeve shirt, and her jumper. She managed to leave her coat in DHs car yesterday which he's driven off with so I made her wear one of mine (just until she gets in) and she went off crying. Because I made her wear a coat. In -1.

The snow hasn't melted here because it is fucking freezing still and there is a bitter wind. How messed up is it that I'm now feeling like a crap mum for not wanting her to freeze? 

Mine has never felt the cold, always wanders around the house in a short sleeved Tshirt when we have a jumper on. Would take an umbrella but not a coat to school. A lot of the problem is the lockers are tiny and there is nowhere to put 'stuff'

My 13yo DS must go to the only school in Britain where all the students wear coats! I noticed it particularly when I got the bus in with him last week (had an appointment round the corner from his school). The boys from his school all seemed to be in coats, though some were still a bit flimsy for -5°C snowy weather. The kids from the other local schools were mostly in just their blazers - and most of the girls had bare legs under their short skirts. I was shivering just looking at them! Both DS and I 'run warm' but no way would either of us go out bare legged and coatless in that weather. I wore a coat to school as a teen, but maybe that's because I wanted to show off my cool leather biker jacket

DD would take a proper coat to schoolif it was really cold but at other times would use a properly waterproof shell, which kept out wind and rain but could be easily stuffed into her rucksack. She nicked my berghaus shell for a while till I bought her one of her own. Not cheap, so she made sure she didn't lose it like earlier jack-in-a-packs. Using it now at uni, worth the investment if they've got longish walk or cycle rides.

Every high school kid I see walking to school doesn't have a coat on - makes me shudder from my nice warm car with heated seats and a coat on! Even in pouring rain most of them just have their blazers or jumpers on.

Let her freeze. She'll take it off anyway.

I was one of the few walking round with a coat on at school, but I would be shivering even during summer in the sun. No one cared though.

She may just legitimately not feel cold?

I went hiking in Iceland in late November and still had to strip down to my bottom layers. I was notorious amongst my friends for running abut in a vest in freezing temperatures.

MIL is obsessed with making me wear a coat. She flapped about like a mad thing aking me put my coat and scarf on before I left her horribly stuffy house. I went a hundred yards our of sight then pulled over to take it all off. I couldn't bloody drive in so many restricting layers!

I never wore a coat.

I don't even own one anymore

Reminds me of my teaching days, often they came with no coat, even in winter, no school sweatshirt becuase they didn't like the colour and a short sleeved shirt/blouse, they then wanted the heating on full blast which I never did.
I used to collect my daughter from her bar job, usually around 11.30, I amused myself watching the teeterers, tiny frocks with shoestring straps, high heels and no coat, whatever the weather, arms folded under their bosoms.

I never wore a coat to school but I don't know how I would have? My blazers were wool and big and heavy and smelled really bad when damp. Snow, rain whatever - I just wore my blazer. Even my blazer were the thinner polyester type, I sill don't know how you would wear a coat over the top?

DD1 who’s 8 would happily go off wearing her school pinafore and ankle socks without a coat if we let her! Tbh she very rarely seems to feel the cold, but I still don’t think it’s wise to go out in these kind of temperatures dressed like it’s summer, so we do have a lot of battles over appropriate clothing as well. I try not to stress too much about it anymore...

DD's school was sensible - they had a jumper rather than blazers, these generally looked smarter than the shapeless polyester blazers used elsewhere. And they didn't have any rules about coats other than no fur or suede (I assume to prevent the damp dog effect). So the girls could wear normal coats, not have to have a special, despised 'school coat' - and so more coats were worn, including sensible walking jacket type things. Northwest, in a high rainfall city.

Kids are weird.
I teach secondary and my classroom is very cold. The kids walk in from outside wearing barely anything and then complain it's cold. But apparently outside frosty as it is, with no coat on, is just fine