Any parents dreading the rain?

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6 days of rain forecast where I am. On the 4 days I don't work, we've had an amazing routine of getting up, going to the park/outdoors, home, lunch, nap, then the same with dinner and bedtime added to the end. Lots of long walks, lots of beach trips as it's round the corner etc.

I don't know what we're going to do when the rain hits. Not much indoors and affordable round here. No soft play. No swimming. My son does so much better when we get out. Realistically, we can't be out for hours on end in the rain.

It's making me dread winter with a toddler this year.

Anyone else?

@Kokeshi123 thank you for getting it, I enjoyed your moan :)

Me too.

We still do walks in the rain 😊 When Dd was younger she used to look for puddles to jump in. Now we just put coats and wellies on and walk and talk. We also do lots of baking and art/craft type activities and board games in the rain.

I'll much prefer the rain to the heat we've had recently.
We won't melt in the rain, so unless it's pouring down in buckets we can still walk to indoor places, although I appreciate that depends on location and what is available.

@Polnm

Where is it raining? No rain in Yorkshire

Newcastle

We have plenty of waterproofs and a towel to wipe down the swing/slide and we go out in the rain but the kids don’t last any where as near as long in the rain than the sun. We are off for a picnic in the rain, DD1 is complaining.

Where is it raining?
No rain in Yorkshire

Newcastle
South Warwickshire too, it stops for just long enough for you to think you can get the washing out then pours down again.

I’m looking forward to the bad weather. At the moment most places are too busy to be safe. But when it rains most people will stay at home, and those of us who aren’t bothered by the rain will be a lot safer.

I’m with you- I’m a single parent and live in a flat with no outside space and no car. Dd and I drive each other a bit mad after all this time (she only went back to school 2 days per week when they went back) and I’ve been working FT from home (with middling success). Walks, playgrounds etc are our salvation and the sun has made it feel a bit more like a holiday for a while. Dd just wants to play with me and doesn’t have a great attention span for crafts etc. I think it’s going to be a tv fest next week

I get you, we’re in a local lockdown area and it’s incredibly shit not to be able to visit family again. The only time we can see them is outside in a park. We won’t go in the rain it’s so depressing and can’t use or sit on anything.

I used to love it when my DC were little and it was raining. Wellies and waterproofs on, take a towel or muslin cloth to dry the swings at the park and off you go! It's much easier than the ridiculous hot weather and trying to plaster sun cream on two kids who absolutely detest the stuff!

I don't mind the rain now. Mine are at the age they can entertain themselves sometimes.

It’s unlikely to be torrential for 6 days. It’s just swapping faffing about with suncream and hats for faffing about with wellies and hoods.

Oh I love warm, rainy summer days and I’m sure your kids will too. If you’re worried about a bit of water touching their skin put a light rain mac and some wellies on them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Please send some rain and hopefully some cooler air to Norfolk please.

It's a lot cloudier and a bit dull but the humidity is killing me!

I hated the burning heat and wasn’t taking my kids out in it so the rain is preferential to me. Not the crazy biblical rain though. That was bonkers!!

No, looking at my brown, crunchy lawn bring it on.

Why can't you go out in the rain?

It's only water?

Same here re being near a beach and facing 6 days of rain.

We will still go out for walks and to the beach. We may just go in the cafe for coffee and hot chocolate rather than sit on the shore with an ice cream!

But then again we do walks along beach and cafe in winter when it's 2°!

We do go out in the rain but realistically would you really go out for 4/5 hours a day in it? My son gets miserable and screams his head off after an hour out in the rain. No idea why 🤷🏽‍♀️

@Kokeshi123

I've met about two people in my entire life who can feed in a sling. And trying to manage it while trying to stop your umbrella turn inside out and control another child while rain drips down your neck sounds like utter hell. My baby would fall asleep if she was in the sling for any length of time. Then you are stuck there in damp dripping clothes with a baby glued to you. More utter hell.

Craft shit is utter hell too. Trashed dining room, hours of housework, on top of all the other housework you have to do as a result of feeding kids at home three times a day. The last time we did crafts at home on a rainy day, I basically spent the entire day cleaning up.

Sorry, I'm not being helpful. Just having a moan and letting the OP know that I totally get how she is feeling.

Most people I know who slung also fed in it (and I'm a sling librarian/babywearing consultant, so I've met plenty of people using them).

It's easier as they get older so can manipulate things more easily themselves. And it's not a hands-free carry if you've changed their position or loosened the sling to do it (e.g. loosened the shoulder straps of a buckled carrier), so you need to keep an eye on their safety. And of course you need to wear appropriate clothing (it's easiest if it can just be pulled down).

But I've done it from newborn in all different types of sling, and nobody who's asked me for help with it ever turned out not to be able to do it at all (though some found it easier in certain slings than others), despite many different physiologies.

And not all types of umbrellas are prone to turning inside out. Although you could instead use an oversized raincoat over both of you.

What about taking a pop up tent out so you can do your normal sitting around (with or without food, books, stick play ideas etc), but not getting wet? The sound of the rain on the roof would be nice too. And then as soon as it clears up you can be out there.