To be concerned at the lack of Sunhats...

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I'm at Chessington (for my sins).

I would say that at least 90% of people don't have sunhats on - including the kids.

Am I just too precious about it?!

I've had melanoma most likely because my parents allowed me to burn as a child. I judge parents who don't cover up their kids and use sunscreen. Their kids will judge them too when they've got sun damage like mine. Is there a problem with judging people who are behaving like tits?

I think a days dose of sun is good for everyone. Different if you're on holiday In the Middle East but we're so deprived of sunshine in the uk it's actually vital to our health to capture what we can to last us out the dreary dull autumn and winter. Humans are like plants and I don't think many realise this.

Yes it was the same when we were in Spain earlier in the summer. I just don’t get it- it’s much safer to have them covered up in the pool and there is a lot less skin showing which needs to be suncreamed so it actually saves time and money too.

I wear a hat when travelling in hot climes. Keeps me cool. I have an Australian leather hat for this purpose, it’s great.

I've always worn sun hats as my Mum had some pre-cancerous moles removed so I went from being a sunworshipper up until my mid-20s to wearing hats & SPFs.

Now my previously thick mop has drastically thinned post-menopause, I'm even more careful as a sunburnt scalp bloody hurts!

DS and I both have thick curly hair, no parting , no danger of scalp burn , I also use coola hair and scalp spray on us both. DH has thick hair no bald patches, no parting. Not sure how his head would burn?
I find a hat in the sun makes me overheat
DS and I both wear factor 50 reapplied regularly, DH uses factor 30. I've not been sunburnt for at least twenty years, and never as a child, a few mishaps in my late teens, when I was out without parents are the only incidents I recall and resulted in being pink for a few hours rather than anything more substantial.

Primary School in Oz in the 90s drilled the importance of sunhats into us. In summer months if you didn’t have your hat on you couldn’t play outside at breaktime and lunch. You hat to sit in the shade in front of the staff room instead.

I hear you OP. I wear my cap year round and when my kids aren’t wearing a woolly hat they are wearing a sunhat. But I grew up in a country where the rule was ‘no hat, no play’. The UK doesn’t seem to have caught up yet.

I have the same thought when I hear people warn that the weather will be hot, remember your suncream. Sun damage is not directly related to heat!

@JanesBlond I guess I was thinking more about sunstroke. I do put suncream on my kid, including her head when we're out.

To be honest I think anyone who decides to go to a theme park for the day when it's meant to be 28 degrees is an idiot.

I almost melted going to the supermarket yesterday!

Do you think that's more to do with more overseas travel? I mean, people used to work outdoors full days without sunscreen didn't they? Or maybe they did get skin cancer and its just diagnosis rates that are soaring.

The only time (as an adult) that I've worn a hat in the sun (I succumbed to pressure from friends whilst on holiday in the US - I feel hotter, sweatier and horribly claustrophobic in any kind of hat), I was horribly unwell that night - vomiting, shivering and hallucinating like a 70's horror film star - I thought death was imminent, but was right as rain the next morning. I can only conclude this was sunstroke and never again will anyone talk me into wearing a hat! Kids though - different story.

Due to having very thick (as in "can't-even-get-a-brush-through-it" level of thickness), I never wear a hat because they never stay on my head. If the purpose of a hat is to stop the sun getting to the scalp then my hair does the job just as well as any hat would. Never had sun/heatstroke in my life.

I don't like hats as they give me a headache, without fail.

I try and get one on my 2 year old but he takes it off every 10 mins or so.

I have thick hair, but also a parting, and ever since it got burnt and then peeled in a particularly unattractive way, I’ve worn a hat in the sun. Not sure why other people don’t suffer from peeling parting as much as I do, but lucky them.

My husband, toddler and I all have straw summer hats. Toddler's hat is a 1960s boater with a ribbon and gets A LOT of positive attention when we go out 😂 But yeah, hats when it's sunny is just the norm for us as a family. We once had a woman shout at us in an airport 'Look they all have matching hats!' 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s not the temperature that matters it’s the UV index. I go by that.

YANBU. We've spent multiple days at theme parks in Europe over the last couple of weeks and always wore hats and sunscreen. Hats were taken off when the queue entered the ride building or just before boarding the ride if outdoors. There were always either places to leave personal items or we could put them in a bag if allowed on the ride.

Even if it's only intermittently sunny - or overcast with light cloud - when you're spending the whole day outdoors it's easy to get burnt without realising it.

I only wear hats in winter. I haven't regularly put a hat on my child since toddlerhood. Neither of us has ever had a burnt scalp. If I've managed to survive hatless for 47 years I'm probably good.

In the special hat repository they have there for that purpose?

I can’t stand the feel of a hat. Just hate it. Makes me feel really hot and uncomfortable. I put sun cream along my parting (I have thick curly hair) and that’s enough for me. When my son was a toddler I did make him wear a hat though.

I gave in and wore a hat the the parks in Orlando but you had to leave them in lockers before going into the queues. It was a bit of a pain but it was 38 degrees. I wouldn’t bother today. Enjoying getting some vitamin d

OMG, they're all going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(looks at news reports....no-one dies).

I started wearing hats when I had babies to 'set an example' . I got used to it and usually wear one now if our in the sun. DGD in the house now so will be more vigilant.