Kids not wrapped up in this cold weather!

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I know it is nothing to do with me how others see fit to dress their children. But it really gets to me when I'm walking round town and see young kids and babies with no gloves or hat on.
Why do parents not think it is appropriate to wrap their children up against the cold? I just don't understand it!

I think @myself2020 has already said it's not the same issue in the UK

It takes one second for a baby/ toddler to pull the hat/ gloves off.
One second for the parent/ carer to put them back on again.
One second for the baby/ toddler to pull them off again.
And one second for someone to see and judge!

@Elbeagle you don’t need mittens in the uk in the moment
removing fun (if you actually need to- he would overheat in thd uk in the moment!):close the raincover, preferably one that isn’t see through. open again in 2-3 min, hat and mittens on. he removed - raincover closed again. until he keeps them
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Lol...i have some beautiful hats and gloves for dd. You might wear a hat but gloves a totally no no. I choose my battles..a coat more important than a hat....she happy to without a coat hat and gloves. Why its freezing out there!!!! In fact i know very few toddlers that wear hats and none that wear gloves

I assumed the OP was talking about the UK.

My 2 year old refuses to wear his gloves and frequently throws his hat off although he always starts off wearing it. He has always got plenty of layers on and a warm coat but unless I stay inside all winter there is not much I can do about the hat and gloves I do try 🤷‍♀️

One trick for keeping toddlers hands warm when it's really cold and they pull their gloves off is to get a pair of their dad's socks and put one on each arm, pulled right up to their arm pits, then put their coat on top.

My teenage kids refuse to wear coats, hats etc as apparently no one else does.

When they were little we lived in a freezing house and they would refuse to keep socks and slippers on. I just don't think they feel the cold. Then I won't even get started on the number of hats, pairs of gloves and scarves they went through. Bit like the PE kit situation.

I couldn’t help myself, I just had to say something and I think I probably was a bit rude

You need to work on your self control.

I just saw a small child (5/6 years old) walking down the street in leggings and a tshirt - it's 7 degrees at the moment and feels pretty cold!

Having said that, as I child I would regularly go without a coat because I didn't like the feeling of being bundled up!

@Greyhound22, I was a hat/gloves refuser and as a teen etc never wore a coat. I have a naturally high body temperature and can camp, go night fishing all year round.

It looks like my grandchildren have inherited my tendencies. My eldest, hat/coat/gloves, GC is five, she's been in excellent health since birth. So has the hat refusing two year old. None of us use heating overnight. I think we are healthier because of it.

So what if you get a bit cold? It's like feeling hungry, it doesn't do us any harm. As Adults, if we are cold, we convert bad fat into brown fat. Brown fat is what children have more of, which is why they can run around in the cold without a coat on, as long as they are well fed. It was malnutrition that killed people in Victorian times, not the cold.

We've become scared of a bit of cold and hunger, when it does us the world of good.

I was one of the 70's kids who woke up with ice on the inside of the window and only one room in the house was heated.

@myself2020, you sensory deprive your children until they behave?

I always do my best to wrap mine up but they often refuse or pull stuff off. My 3 year old always takes her coat off halfway to nursery because she insists she's too hot riding her bike.

I’ve always hated coats. Even now I won’t wear one. I don’t even own a coat. I’d rather suffer the coat and wet in a sweater and a scarf. Not a big fan of hats either.

** I’d rather suffer the cold! Damn phone!

I worked outside in my 20's.

I can assure you you won't put up with 'being a bit cold' and think 'oh well my fat will soon convert' when you're out in snow 7am-6pm have 15 horses to turn out, muck out and water etc as well as standing teaching in a freezing school.

Funnily enough I never saw a 'coat refuser' in those situations.

Funnily enough I never saw a 'coat refuser' in those situations

Well yes, that will be because they were actually cold. When my DD refuses to wear her coat, it’s generally because she’s not actually cold, even if onlookers think she should be.
The OP is taking (I assume) about everyday life, not mucking out horses in the snow for 12 hours a day.

It's not that cold here yet.

You don't need a hat and mittens to go out in 6-7 degree weather.

My dd who is now just 3 is a clothes refuser. She won’t wear coats, hats, scarves, gloves, tights, leggings or trousers (no leg coverings of any kind). Last winter is was a real pain as it meant we could never go to the park or anything outdoorsy unless she was in the cositoes in the buggy.

Again this year she is the same. Will only wear dresses with bare legs and nothing else. Even in the cositoes her lips are blue and people keep commenting. She cries ‘mummy I’m so cold’ but still refuses warm clothes. She wants to stay indoors all the time so she doesn’t need to get dressed.

my ds won't keep a hat on it drives me crazy but not much I can do unless I glue it on. He bites his gloves off too. In the last few weeks I've brought 4 hats and 5 pairs of gloves. He lost the hats and had bitten holes in the gloves. How can I get him to keep them on? suggestions welcome

My ds1 is the opposite. For years he refused shorts and t-shirts even on holidays abroad in August. Always full trousers and a jumper. His face always looked like it was about to explode but he said he wasn’t hot.

It s fucking 5 degrees. They don't need all that shit in this weather.

Meh where we are in the uk it’s 9 degrees today, we went out in a layer of merino wool, a layer of tights and a vest and then a soft shell suit over it. A hat and no gloves. My 11 month old has a single pair of gloves, we never use them.
When we visit my family where it’s in the negative degrees, it’s snowsuits and hats and gloves and the whole lot. But he doesn’t seem to get cold. He was in his bath yesterday until it was freezing for me, I picked him up and he felt warm (and cried because he wasn’t done playing)
Choose your battles, and whatever it is don’t be the dick that told me he should call social services on me because my son, for a 5 min walk, Was seemingly only wearing a sleep suit. He was boiling, trust me, he’s warmer than the radiators in the flat.

I took my DD (2 1/2) out for a forest walk this morning. I took two pairs of mittens and two hats because she peels them off and chucks them and I don’t always notice, so I make sure I had spares. After putting them on her over and over again literally 20 times at the very least I gave up. If a kid doesn’t want them on it’s impossible to make them.

Please reserve your judgement. My child has autism and was that toddler without a hat or gloves on, sometimes a coat! I always had them with me in case he changed his mind but he didn't. He's 7 now and exactly the same. He has a lot of sensory issues with heat and cold.