I'll start with a bit of back story. As kids if the sun poked out even a little bit mum was in the garden & we had to be as well. We were not allowed back indoors except to use the bathroom all day and i have memories of feeling unwell from the heat and like i couldnt escape.
Now as an adult i enjoy nice weather but equally i dont feel the need to have to be out in it. My kids enjoy being inside as well, but they can come and go as they please too so they might take themselves off to the park or draw in the garden.
However it's amazing how many times I've been told "you should be outside with the kids, the weather is lovely" to the point that i feel guilty that we're not outside.
Add to this i get horrific, debilitating hayfever so outside can be painful....literally & my children are all very pale redheads so i worry they'll burn despite sun cream.
I actually quite liked last summer as because it was sunny for so long my mum especially let off some of the pressure of saying we should be outside as the weather was here to stay. But now we're expecting rain again in a few days shes shocked I've told me kids they can have a movie day indoors as thats what they've asked for.
AIBU?
To hate the its nice weather so you must be outside brigade
Arrowfanatic · 21/04/2019 10:03
YANBU I'm the same
We take the dog out twice a day for at least an hour each time. May go out on the scooter to the park for a little bit. But otherwise we just open up the doors to the garden and my daughter comes and goes as she pleases. She is also given the option of lunch indoors or outdoors.
I get nosebleeds in the heat, get very hot and sickly and often feel faint or irritable. I also burn very easily. People normally call me a vampire because I don't like spending too long in the sun.
Plenty of fresh air when you open all the windows and doors. And again going for a walk gives plenty of fresh air. You don't need to be out all day everyday to get vit d and fresh air. Plus some of us spend more time outdoors in the spring, autumn and winter. Perhaps it's more unhealthy for people to only venture outdoors in good weather 
You and the kids do need a bit of unprotected sunshine for vitamin d (15 mins is enough) and being out in fresh air moving about does improve mood by releasing feel good endorphins.
But you have my every sympathy re the hay fever. I dont have it but my son’s is horrendous: he suffered for years despite prescription meds and I was so worried this year with his GCSEs to be sat (imagine, pounding head, streaming eyes, constant sneezing, rash all over your body and trying to concentrate on physics for 2 hours in a stifling room 😱). Exacerbates his asthma too.
Spoke to the GP and he prescribed a new combination of meds. Beclametasone nasal spray twice daily, montelukast tablet at night and fexofenadine tablet in the morning. In combination with extra brown inhaler, it’s made an incredible difference, occasional sneeze and runny eye but that’s it.
GP said for lots of people over the counter stuff just doesn’t work. Try to get your hay fever sorted out and it will really change the way you feel about the outdoors. Try Neutrogena dry touch 45 spf for your kids. I burn to a crisp without it, one application keeps me pale an interesting even after hit, sweaty 2 hour power walk. It’s not greasy and you wouldn’t know it was there. I use frezyderm velvet touch on my face, which is fantastic.
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