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

I don't have any memories of burning as a kid. I think my mum was quite stringent with the sun cream, although she was olive skinned and put oil on herself

You certainly couldn't get it in the supermarket. You had to go to the chemist, or Boots. Or order it from somewhere like Avon. And it was very expensive, comparatively. And it was "sun tan lotion" not protection cream. There was no such things as rash vests and I don't ever remember being given a hat or sunglasses either.

We are so lucky now that the stuff from the supermarkets costs very little and performs so well.

Burnt a few times, but through lack of attention to reapplication of sun screen.
But I grew up in Aus and the old Slip Slop Slap was an active campaign right from the early 80's so we were never at the beach during the day, wide brimmed sunhats were mandatory school uniform and if you didn't have a hat, you didn't go out at lunch.

During the heatwave here I'm still inside, skin cancer damage is done when your young and is irreversible. I was aghast at the schools suggestion that they would 'allow' a hat during the hot weather but it's usually not allowed for uniform, fuck that my child is wearing a hat when outside and I even pulled her from their sports day activities as limited shade available.

I'm from a large family and quite a few including myself have already had to have suspect moles/freckles removed and quite a few family members have already had skin cancer. So we avoid the sun where we can.

80s kid here. I don't ever remember having suncream on or getting burnt, except my feet one time. Weird as I burn easily and don't tan and gave been burnt as a young adult so I cannonly assume I stayed in the shade.

My mum says my nose peeled in 1990 and people looked at her like she had committed child abuse ... like they probably would today really!!

Born mid-70s and only remember one childhood sunburn. My mum was fanatical about sun protection for us (super pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes) but was completely caught out by the ferocity of the sun on our first holiday abroad when I was 11. We all burned quite badly and I had sunstroke after a boat trip on Lake Garda. I'm a factor 50 girl even now but DH is completely blasé about skin protection as he's from a family of farmers. MIL has fabulous skin despite never using sun cream and smoking 20 a day for 50 years.

same here - 40 now and still peeling off a bad bit of sunburn from July…

Born mid-70s and only remember one childhood sunburn. My mum was fanatical about sun protection for us (super pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes) but was completely caught out by the ferocity of the sun on our first holiday abroad when I was 11. We all burned quite badly and I had sunstroke after a boat trip on Lake Garda. I'm a factor 50 girl even now but DH is completely blasé about skin protection as he's from a family of farmers. MIL has fabulous skin despite never using sun cream and smoking 20 a day for 50 years.

Yep, burnt to the point of blisters more than once.

So what are you trying to say?your parents neglected you? Sorry to hear that.

My parents put sunscreen on me. And hats. Tshirts etc. Never got burned.

I was never given a hat in the 80s or 90s. Never kept in 11-3 when the sun was hot. I did have sunscreen but it was a fairly low factor. My mum was always telling me I was too pale and needed to get some colour! I remember her applying coconut scented oil to herself so she’d go brown, and applying it to me too. She would lie in the sun on purpose and encourage me to do it with her. Sometimes she’d use the neighbour’s electric sunbed and I remember at least one occasion when she put me on it for half an hour because she said I looked pasty. I had sunburn multiple times every summer and nobody seemed concerned.

The last time I sunbathed with my mum I was 17. I fancied a boy at school and my mum said he wouldn’t like me if I was pasty. So I stayed out for far too long, determined to be brown and pretty. I burned so badly that I couldn’t stand up for two weeks. The doctor had to prescribe painkillers. By then I was old enough to have a mind of my own and I never sunbathed again. If it’s sunny I wear trousers and long sleeves and a hat. My mother is in her 60s and she still purposely sits in the sun with no sunscreen and tells me I’m too pasty and it looks awful.

Why on earth?

fair skin with lots of moles here and I spent most of my childhood summers sunburnt and dehydrated. At home wasn’t too bad ‘there’s water in the tap’ but day trips and holidays I remember the carefully measured ‘we’ll share a can of coke/ sprite’ from my mum, and having a lot of headaches which I now know we’re likely down to dehydration

Yes being burnt was normal, I remember we used to think you had to burn before it turned into a tan. We wore t shirts in the pool sometimes cover up a bit but being burnt was part of life

I literally burnt to a crisp a few times in the late 60s early 70s , twice we had to cut short our holiday because I was so bad , I was very fair with a hint of ginger . In 1986 I fell asleep after a night shift ( student nurse) in the garden and burnt the backs of my legs so badly that I required hospital treatment for burns dressings and my legs swelled up and looked like huge weeping tree trunks , it took weeks to sort out . Ironically around the same sort of period I got frostbite in several fingers in the heavy snow , can’t win with me the weather is never right .

Incinerated on a regular basis. We used to have factor 2 suncream, which just seems weird now. Once left on a beach in Cyprus for eight hours with no suncream at all. My sister had huge blisters. I'm neurotic about suncream on my kids now (my parents were fairly neglectful, so I think it's a reaction to that.) I have caught my mother taking my one year old out without suncream because she thinks he doesn't get enough sun (stern chat and I just slather him before we get to her now).

I remember we used to think you had to burn before it turned into a tan
I was told this too - you have to burn then you’ll go brown. And brown was very desirable, it meant you could afford to go on holiday to places that were hotter than the UK. My mum thought a tan made you look wealthy, only poor people were pale.

Mid 50s now, several skin cancers removed. Constantly burned to a crisp, blisters, peeling, sunstroke etc throughout my childhood. My kids hate that I slather the in factor 50 at the merest whiff of the sun.

I’m not saying I never got burnt but never badly. I adopted a sun hat in 1975. My mother was constantly saying ‘cover your shoulders’. I thought all mothers said that but apparently not.

Born in 64 and we summered in France every year . The annual peel was a big thing in our first week . The whole family just burnt peeled and then carried on regardless. I didn't know sun cream existed until I was an adult. I used in on my 80s born children but the highest factor was 10 . They wore hats and tees in the sun too . My Mediterranean Mum never understood why .

My husband burns supper easily. He was talking about this the other day. He got yelled at for refusing to take if his top at the beach by a grandparent when he was old enough to understand that the sun burnt him.
they refused to buy suncream or let him sit in the shade. Told him he would that the burn would turn to tan🙄
hes fanatical about suncream on our child now.

On a school camping trip when I was 11 in Wales. Sunburned so badly my shoulders blistered. I only remember people using sun oil then. 1978

Every summer!

I remember going to a summer play scheme when I was about 10. They took us to the park, it was very hot so they told us to take our tops off - no sun cream was provided! I remember refusing as I had started developing breasts but most others were topless - the skin damage must have been awful!

Late 80s baby here. My mother was fastidious about sun protection as her parents weren't with her and she's pale and burns easily. Her dad has had skin cancer too. I inherited my Dad's olive skin and I tan easily but was smothered in suncream as a child and I had to take it to school and reapply it before I could play outside. I also had to wear a hat and sit in the shade on hot days. So I never burnt as a child.

A lot of my school friends weren't so lucky and regularly had very nasty sunburn on holidays.

I was born late 80s and we used to spend the whole summer holidays abroad (parents used to be teachers) and I don't remember anything but the odd bit of redness that was gone the next day. We never spent all day at the beach as we'd always go back to the tent/caravan for lunch in the shade and stay there a couple of hours to be out of the midday sun, suncream (albeit spf15, 8 or 4) was applied liberally and frequently and any sign of redness the oversized Coca-Cola t-shirts immediately made an appearance. The only time I was badly burned was on a half-term trip to the Canaries when I burned on the last day. My parents didn't think to apply suncream as it was raining!