70's -80's children how many remember getting sunburn.

[Sunflowerkeep]

I barely remember them putting suncream on me always dark, sometimes burnt i certain areas and parents are like ahh you got a nice tan even when I was clearly burnt and must have had sun stroke as remember feeling bit chilly in 35c yeah really. Loads of my friends remember the same from that generation. Weird hey. I've got olive skin but my brother I remember burnt to a crisp one year. Poor thing

Yes I burned to a crisp every year! I had sun stroke a couple of times as my parents would cart us off to the south of France every summer to boil on the beach.

No-I don’t ever remember being burnt as a child on the 80s-I was either given a hat, put in the shade or told to cover up. My mum is a pale redhead though, who’d had a couple of incidents of very painful sunburn in the past and tried to avoid this happening!

First sports day ever, 1989. It was like a blizzard in my bedroom when I woke up the next day and half my back had decided to leave the rest of my body.

Severe sunburn every year since two years old. Born early eighties.

I got burnt all the time as a child of the 80s. My DM is from the Mediterranean and as such has dark olive skin, so never really thought about sun protection. I completely took after the English side, fair, pale, freckly, molely. We would go back to her home island for 8 weeks every summer and whilst I'd come home very tanned, the first two weeks were horrific. The highest factor you could buy on the island from a pharmacy was 8 and that was referred to as sunblock. I am a skin cancer ticking time bomb.

Every year. Burnt and then peeling. Crazy. I’m covered in moles and freckles. I’d lost my first mole to sun damage by 13.

I remember my mum trying to smother me in a rank coconut scented suncream when I was a kid, so it was definitely about (I hated it, the smell made me feel so sick, so I remember crying and not wanting to wear it). I don’t think the high factors we have today were a thing as much tho! I definitely remember getting burned the odd time, and never had suncream before school or at school, like my kids have today

I remember being burnt loads and having sun stroke to the point of delirium and hallucinations a few times as a child in the 90s. Definitely wasnt deemed as neglectful as it is today, like everything I suppose.

Yanbu. I was born in 1985, so most of memories are of the 90's but I remember getting burned every year, peeling skin etc. parents would only put suncream on us for the first few days if we were abroad.There was a belief that getting a tan would protect you more against the sun 😐. I even remember my mum letting me use tanning oil!

Added to this, was the weird attitude to drinking in the 90's. Bottled water was not a thing! We were constantly dehydrated. I remember one particularly bad experience, sight-seeing in Spain, walking miles in hot weather without a drink, crying with thirst, then being forced to share a coke with my brother !!!!

Honestly, between all this and having grown ups constantly smoke around us, I don't know how any of us kids from that era managed to make it to middle age.

I was a child of 60/70s. Sun protection wasn't a thing. Ambre Solaire did tanning oil which basically fried you. The was no protection.
For some reason my mum used to cover me in malt vinegar to stop me burning - it didn't work, and the small of chips still takes me back to the beach! Calamine lotion for sun burn, which did nothing either.
I first remember proper suncream in the late 80s.

My mum was actually better than most back then when it came to making sure we didn’t get burnt, but sun cream back then was basically SPF4 or something and was only brought out when it was absolutely roasting and we were going to be outside all day actually sitting in the sun, not for a day out or anything. And although she didn’t want us to burn, because it would be sore, tans were considered healthy 😳 I don’t think I went anywhere near any kind of sunscreen between the ages of about 11 and 25, which is shocking considering that I burn really easily.

I got sunstroke on holiday when I was about seven or eight. I wasn’t burnt but I’d spent the whole day playing in a pool and it was boiling hot. My parents thought it would be fine because I was in the water. Nope! I do vividly remember having a hat bought for me after that though.

Yep, I'm pale & ginger and only holidayed in the UK as a child, but spending the first couple of nights bright red and covered in calamine lotion, and waking up in chalky bedsheets, was the norm.

Heavens yes.

I lived in a super hot country and I seem to recall that it was felt you had to burn off early in the summer in order to get your skin used to it. (This is how i recall it anyway).

70s child. Yes, burnt on holiday. Calamine lotion.

My mother doesn’t believe in suncream-even now
so we burnt every year-I remember burning so badly one year my back scabbed
i was a skint single mum years later,who really had to watch every penny,and she won a years supply of suncream
she gave the whole lot away to other people (who had a lot more money than me!) and when I pointed out her grandchildren,she told me it was ‘a money making con,by boots*,for gullible parents and nobody needs it anyway ’

*if you listen to her,there are no other brands-only boots soltan

My parents were very sun aware and we had to have a t shirt on on the beach 11-2, sun cream rubbed in vigorously (with sand acting as an exfoliator) windbreaks strategically placed to provide shade -and we were made to sit in it

If we were at home I don't remember having sun cream but playing out in the garden was restricted to mornings and later on in the afternoon

We never went abroad as children so I'm not sure how that would have been managed but I know the only time I got burned as a child was on school sports day!

I was an 80s child and my mum has always been absolutely brilliant about sun cream. We never ever burnt as children on our holidays and I really thank her for protecting us so well

im 43 now and don’t have wrinkles on my face either (which I assume is down to good sun care but could also be luck)

ive always been super strict with my now grown up boys on Sun cream too. One of my best friends and her husband, tho, are of the belief you need to push through a sun burn in order to get a tan. They are currently abroad on holiday and both them and their teen kids are frighteningly sun burnt yet still sitting on their sun beds in the glaring sun. I can’t understand it!

(btw there’s plenty of things I’m sure people can criticise me on how I am as a mother, so I’m not saying the whole sun cream thing makes me a superior mum!)

I definitely had sunburn every year, but it wasn’t from a lack of my mother trying to get sunscreen on us! Generally we sweated or swam it off and it was reapplied, just not often enough.

I remember being smothered in aloe gel afterwards as well. Ugh.

I was born at the end of the 80s so more of a 90s kid really but I’ve been burnt only once in my life, and that was on holiday when I was swimming a lot. I remember my grandma and my mum being very hot on sun protection even though my mum used to sunbathe herself and go on sunbeds. I remember as a kid sitting waiting for her in the beauty parlour wondering why she was wearing those strange goggles!

Eldest child born early 80's here, vividly remember burning and feeling ill from sunstroke on caravan holidays. One year in the early 90's one of my siblings had to be hospitalised due to blistering from severe sunburn. I'm anal about sun protection, shade and hydration for my own DCs now. They think I'm over the top but I remember so well how ill it made me and how horrifying my siblings blisters were.

I have never put on sunscreen and I have never burned in the UK but I did get severe sunburn in Benidorm in 1984.

Yes, we were frequently sunburned as children. Peeling skin was the norm (and fun, like peeling PVA glue off your hands 😂). It seems crazy, especially as my mum is so obsessed with suncream now!

I'm an 80s child and my parents always smothered us in suncream abroad and at home during the summer.
I remember having a specific roll on one for my face too.

Hats and t shirts in the pool.

I do remember burning one year though and my mum was really upset about it. We were in Cyprus during a heatwave.

My parents never bought sun cream, I didn’t use it until I went away with a BF when I was 18/19.

Never got sunburn as a child. I was coated in Nivea suncream the whole of the summer, always.